Could the Tibetan brown bear explain sightings of the Yeti ?

[UM-Bot]

A conservation researcher believes that a rarely seen species of bear could account for sightings of the legendary creature.

https://www.unexplained-mysteries.com/news/361728/could-the-tibetan-brown-bear-explain-sightings-of-the-yeti

[Trelane]

" Could the Tibetan brown bear explain sightings of the Yeti ? "

Most likely, yes. It is the most logical and provable explanation.

[jethrofloyd]

Hm, I can imagine a someone thinking: ths Tibetan brown bear must be a legendary creature Yeti.

[+susieice]

Beautiful animal    I can see people thinking it's a yeti. Especially from a distance.

[MysteryMike]

I thought this was already concluded to be the case?

[DreadLordAvatar]

Skeptics: It moves like a bipod, therefore it must be a bear!

[Trelane]

2 hours ago, DreadLordAvatar said:

Skeptics: It moves like a bipod, therefore it must be a bear!

You mean  a biped?

 

[Resume]

2 hours ago, DreadLordAvatar said:

Skeptics: It moves like a bipod, therefore it must be a bear!

Bears have been demonstrated to locomote bipedally, where as footies, yetis etc, have never been demonstrated to do anything at all, including (and this is extemely important) existing.

[Stiff]

Whilst I don't disagree with anything that's been stated up to now and the chances are that the sightings most probably are indeed a bear, the problem I have with this argument is the bears snout. It's so distinguishable from anything else. Especially anything ape-like or any 'wild-man' like accounts. It's kind of, well, 'bear' like and only really found on 'bears'.

[jethrofloyd]

[Portre]

They should show side by side photos of the Tibetan Brown bear with photos of the Yeti, oh, right, not enough blurry bear pictures. 

[+DieChecker]

I think especially the footprints could be from bears.

Many yeti sightings, I believe, are actually humans. The local monks are known to go on long walks in the mountains to center themselves. A human footprint + sun + time, can look like the historic yeti footprints.

[stereologist]

On 11/4/2022 at 5:32 PM, DreadLordAvatar said:

Skeptics: It moves like a bipod, therefore it must be a bear!

That's not what is happening is it?

[stereologist]

13 hours ago, Stiff said:

Whilst I don't disagree with anything that's been stated up to now and the chances are that the sightings most probably are indeed a bear, the problem I have with this argument is the bears snout. It's so distinguishable from anything else. Especially anything ape-like or any 'wild-man' like accounts. It's kind of, well, 'bear' like and only really found on 'bears'.

That's supposing someone is being observant.

Can you be sure that people reporting yeti is thinking that a snout is normal or not?

[jethrofloyd]

22 hours ago, Stiff said:

Whilst I don't disagree with anything that's been stated up to now and the chances are that the sightings most probably are indeed a bear, the problem I have with this argument is the bears snout. It's so distinguishable from anything else. Especially anything ape-like or any 'wild-man' like accounts. It's kind of, well, 'bear' like and only really found on 'bears'.

If people were so observant, especially from a distance, Yeti would be called Snouti, not Yeti.

[OpenMindedSceptic]

One researcher dismisses many locals and claims they're wrong. 

I'd be keeping my powder dry if I were the researcher and do more research first.

[the13bats]

On 11/4/2022 at 12:59 PM, Trelane said:

" Could the Tibetan brown bear explain sightings of the Yeti ? "

Most likely, yes. It is the most logical and provable explanation.

Famous mountaineer Reinhold messner saw a yeti but he wasnt one to jump to conclusions, afterall he had climbed Everest more than once with no oxygen and wondered could what he saw been a hallucination.

The fellow did his own research one thing he learned was each indigenous tribe when asked what is "yeti" it was always a type of bear.

The monks all said yeti is type of bear then sykes dna testing showed all yeti evidence tested to being either other known creatures or you guessed it, "type of bear".

Messner like myself surfing his and others coat tails are content that yeti is a type of bear, the yeti only became a snow bound version of bigfoot when the west showed money could be made from that ruse.

[Hankenhunter]

It's possible I suppose, but bears do not walk like a true biped. For one thing they can't swing their "arms" at their sides like a true biped.  Their paws always face forward. They also don't walk long distances on two feet. They do it to get a better scent, and to see better, then go back to four legs on the ground. I've seen bears walking, and in no way do they walk like true biped. 

[the13bats]

11 minutes ago, Hankenhunter said:

It's possible I suppose, but bears do not walk like a true biped. For one thing they can't swing their "arms" at their sides like a true biped.  Their paws always face forward. They also don't walk long distances on two feet. They do it to get a better scent, and to see better, then go back to four legs on the ground. I've seen bears walking, and in no way do they walk like true biped. 

But all we have of the bipedal stride is stories.

Youtube has many videos of bears up on two walking fairly long ways and some looking far too human until they go down to all 4