Yeti Vs. Sasquatch

"We has met the enemy and we is bot' da same". Pogo, sorta.

 

The Tibetan Big Yeti is evidently a harvester of winter-kill carcasses and stores them above the permanent snowline, and so is a nearly complete carnivore: the more widespread Sasquatches (Shan Giants, etc) live down in pine forests and happily take deer but are buoyed through the year by pine needles and stashes of pine nuts, as far as reports go to indicate. Which is marvelously well conveyed in this panel cartoon, I wonder where the artist got such precise information? Unless it was just a brilliant insight based on their different environments.

Thanks to Burt Smith for the heads up on this cartoon. [Posted to Facebook]

 

 

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While I was searching the Unknown Creatures websites of the Nandi Bear artwork (curiously the site does not even have a listing for Nandi Bear any more), I did happen to find the page for the Nyalmo, the Big Yeti:

http://www.unknown-creatures.com/nyalmo.html

And I know you are not supposed to mess with another artist's work without permission, but I made a little fixup of his illustration:

Now it happens that Mr Benjamin did NOT do an illustration of the Big Yeti, what he did was a perfectly accurate illustration of the typical or common-garden-variety Yeti which is rather less than the height of a man on average (And compared to a chimpanzee in size and looks by educated Tibetans) The animal should be coloured in a reddish-brown shade and it is thought to be related to the Orangutan by most experts. It is probably identical to the (Smaller) Yeren, Da-Nhan, Mawas, Xing-Xing, Mahalangur (Big Monkey), Olo-Bandar and so ond Southeast Asia, and a survival of the fossil "Mainland Pongo" (Orangutan) of the Ice Ages. more work needs to be done to determine how closely related to the orangutans it really is. Below is  R.W. Benjamin's original artwork, unaltered and unharmed, and no harm was meant by this comparison which was done to make a scientific point and not to defraud anybody:

 

 

And, once again, this illustration does not actually go with the Nyalmo, which should be more like the common Sasquatch or Gin-Sung of Ivan Sanderson.