Sir David Attenborough Finds Yeti Evidence Convincing

[William Parcher]

Yeti evidence is 'convincing' says wildlife expert Sir David Attenborough


Daily Mail Online...

Sir David Attenborough believes there is 'very convincing' evidence that yetis exist.

Speaking on Friday Night With Jonathan Ross, the revered wildlife expert said: 'I'm baffled by the Abominable Snowman - very convincing footprints have been found at 19,000ft.

'No-one does that for a joke. I think it's unanswered.'

 

[Soapy Sam]

No one as inherently sensible and decent as David Attenburgh would play such a prank.
He might be making the common mistake of many sensible and decent people of supposing everyone else to be equally sensible and decent.

I find it very unlikely such a large creature can exist in the high Himalaya, but if it does, we will find out sooner or later.

 

[SnuffSnuff]

Yeti evidence is 'convincing' says wildlife expert Sir David Attenborough


Daily Mail Online...




[qimg]http://img.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2007/09_04/yeti2L2609_468x322.jpg[/qimg]

...I don't even need to explain how footprints alone aren't evidence.

 

[Bikewer]

I remember many years ago St. Louis Zoo director Marlin Perkins showing how melting could cause prints of common animals like foxes to melt together into very convincing primate-looking prints.

 

[George 152]

Yeti evidence is 'convincing' says wildlife expert Sir David Attenborough


One of the sad things about aging is the loss of mental acuity in those who have built up a cult like following

 

[Cavemonster]

It's an article from the Daily mail, spinning a comment that is essentially
"I don't have a good explanation for that footprint from the 50's"

This is more an offhand comment from a larger conversation taken out of context than anything else.

 

[kitakaze]

Pick your yeti:

http://www.abc.net.au/reslib/200712/r207968_794796.jpg

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...s-wildlife-expert-Sir-David-Attenborough.html

 

[Correa Neto]

What cavemonster said.

Context, please?

 

[William Parcher]

Video of the clip from the show gives the context.

 

[Undesired Walrus]

To respond to the blasphemy that is going on in this thread ('David is going gah-gah' etc), there is a large difference between what the Mail declares is Attenborough "believ(ing) there is 'very convincing' evidence that yetis exist" and "very convincing footprints". It's Attenborough giving an excitable audience a thin stick to chew on without selling out his skeptical mind.

There's even a further difference between what Attenborough said and what the above Sun article declares with "SIR DAVID: YETIS REAL!". But what else to expect from that waste of paper?

 

[kitakaze]

Thanks, WP. Pretty cut and dry. Smart guy who doesn't have all the information or gave it proper thought.

Bigfoot enthusiasts will go at this like a four year old on a pile of brownies.

 

[William Parcher]

Smart guy who doesn't have all the information or gave it proper thought.

He had his opportunity to say exactly that, but didn't. He basically said what many Bigfooters say. Nobody would be faking tracks in extremely remote places.

Bigfoot enthusiasts will go at this like a four year old on a pile of brownies.

They might.

BFF thread.

 

[Cavemonster]

He had his opportunity to say exactly that, but didn't.

At the end of the clip, where he's asked essentially whether what's he's been talking about implies that he believes a yeti existing is likely, he gets cut off quickly by the presenter in the middle of a sentence that starts out "Well, yes-"

This doesn't exactly feel like a hard hitting news show, or an exhaustive academic discussion, it's a puff piece.

 

[Jeff Corey]

Did anyone notice how many toes that print showed? I made some boots a few years ago that left a print with only four toes, just for the hell of it. It was only size 12 (US) so I called it Somewhat Large Foot.

 

[Sir Robin Goodfellow]

Even if he said, "You better believe bigfoot is real, 'cause I totally like, saw one this one time and stuff!", that doesn't mean that he couldn't be wrong. Just because an educated, famous scientist believes something doesn't make that thing automatically true. If Stephen Hawking told me that he believed that he had been abducted by aliens, I would think that he was mistaken. Even highly educated and intelligent people can be wrong.

 

[UnrepentantSinner]

This might give footers some fodder but otherwise it's a big heap of Meh. He still has oodles of cred with me.

 

[LTC8K6]

Yes, bigfoot and his relatives seem to have very variable feet...

 

[manofthesea]

Who's David Attenburger? (joke) He's not refering to the Shipman (or Shipley) print is he?

 

[zooterkin]

I don't for one minute think that David Attenborough is convinced that the Yeti exists. I would suspect he would quite like it to, but that's not the same thing at all. In his work, he has seen and been involved with the filming of many things previously unsuspected, or thought to no longer exist, so he may still have an open mind on this. Conversely, given that he's a pretty bright chap, he may have a realistic view on the existence of an undetected primate, but also know what goes down well on a light-hearted chat show (and bear in mind also that it is one which is edited before transmission, so we don't know all that he said).

What I wonder about is the end of the Daily Mail article, when they slip in his comments about global warming. Are they subtly trying to undermine those, by implying he's a crackpot who believes in Abominable Snowmen?

 

[Pixel42]

As I type this six of the first ten threads in this forum are about Big Foot. Now here's one about Yeti, prompted by a throwaway remark on a chat show.

Am I the only regular reader of this forum who does not give a toss whether Big Foot exists or not, and has trouble seeing the relevance of the subject to a forum about the paranormal? If not, can I ask - nay beg - the mods to create a subforum for the subject of mythical monsters, where those who do care (for God knows what reason) can discuss them to their hearts' content without bothering the rest of us?