{"id":300,"date":"2009-09-02T15:46:14","date_gmt":"2009-09-02T21:46:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bigfootmystery.com\/wordpress\/?p=300"},"modified":"2009-09-02T15:46:51","modified_gmt":"2009-09-02T21:46:51","slug":"himalayan-bigfoot-to-undergo-dna-testing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bigfoot-lives.com\/blog\/?p=300","title":{"rendered":"Himalayan Bigfoot to undergo DNA testing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here is an interesting report from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.allnewsweb.com\/page8948949.php\">All news Web<\/a>. Its dated 29th August and written by Michael Cohen.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Making big news in China this week is a story about Himalaya&#8217;s legendary Yeti or Bigfoot.<\/p>\n<p>For centuries rumours of a half-man, half-ape that roams the upper Himalayas have circulated. The creature said to stand 3 metres tall has been allegedly seen by many locals as well as hikers visiting the area. In Chinese Yeti is often referred to as &#8216;Xueguai&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>A number of locals living near the Nepalese border claim not only to have seen the creature, but to have collected strands of its hair. Now, it has been reported that a team of scientists have collected these strands and have already confirmed that they do not belong to any local known animals.<\/p>\n<p>The scientists plan to do further testing on the hair strands.<\/p>\n<p>One theory regarding the Yeti is that the sightings of the supposed cryptid are in fact that of a rare bear that lives in the area but is unknown to scientists. The scientists hope to settle this mystery with the DNA tests&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The original story can be found <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chinanews.com.cn\/gj\/gj-dqsj\/news\/2009\/08-28\/1839045.shtml\">here.<\/a> \u00a0 Unfortunately its in Mandarin. If any Chinese readers can translate the story i would be most grateful :)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here is an interesting report from the All news Web. Its dated 29th August and written by Michael Cohen. &#8220;Making big news in China this week is a story about Himalaya&#8217;s legendary Yeti or Bigfoot. For centuries rumours of a half-man, half-ape that roams the upper Himalayas have circulated. The creature said to stand 3 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,3,5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bigfoot-lives.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bigfoot-lives.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bigfoot-lives.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bigfoot-lives.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bigfoot-lives.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=300"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.bigfoot-lives.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":304,"href":"http:\/\/www.bigfoot-lives.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300\/revisions\/304"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bigfoot-lives.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bigfoot-lives.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bigfoot-lives.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}