'They have an acute
sense of danger': Yeti expert defends lack of sasquatch sightings as row erupts
over his claims that 200 live in Siberia
Professor claims
scientific tests, such as DNA checks, prove hair samples from remote cave
belonged to human-like mammal unknown to man
By Will Stewart
A row has
erupted in Russia over a biological scientist's claim that some 200 Yeti live
in a large area of southern Siberia.Professor Valentin Sapunov has infuriated
academics with his assertion that scientific tests, including DNA checks, found
that hair samples from a remote cave belonged to a human-like mammal unknown to
man.Now he has gone further by claiming a population of 200 Yeti exist in the
forested Kemerovo, Khakassia and Altai regions of Siberia.This number allows
them to successfully reproduce, said the academic from the Russian State
HydroMeteorological University. 'He claims there have been no confirmed
sightings of the Yeti because they have an acute sense of danger,' reported the
Siberian Times.But other Russian experts are deeply unimpressed by Professor
Sapunov's theories, saying he has put his Big Foot in it with claims that there
is DNA backing for the existence of the Yeti.Far from finding the Abonimable
Snowman, his scientific claims on the subject amount to abominable lies, Oleg
Pugachev, director of the Zoological Institute of Russian Academy of Science,
told state-run newspaper Rossiyskaya Gazeta.
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