lordmongrove
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Urvogel said:lordmongrove said:The yeti is not and never has been white.
I'll believe that when they actually find a body and do a proper scientific census of their numbers.
And really, who's to say they can't be white? Mammoths after all came in colours from blonde to red to black. Why shouldn't yetis have different shades? Or perhaps like white lions there's a recessive gene that makes some rarer members of the species pale. Or perhaps like ermine they change colour with the seasons.
Until a carcass gets found and proper DNA sequencing happens from that carcass, or the entire population gets found and tagged, no-one can say for definate what colours they can and can't be. After all, the only colours of yeti we know about are the ones we've seen. It could easily be a represensative bias. Maybe the white ones make up the majority, it's just the brown ones that are stomping about and getting spotted more.
There has never been a single white yeti reported in the annals of Asia research. Maybe, one in a blue moon an albino occurs but thats like saying gorillas are white because Barcelona Zoo once had an albino gorilla.