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EDITOR'S COMMENT:

For more background information about the following story, see "Chinese 'Big
Foot' Hunt" in NHNE News Brief 9, Friday, August 25, 1995:

http://www.nhne.com/newsbriefs/nhnenb09.html#bigfoot

--- David Sunfellow

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CHINESE SCIENTISTS STEP UP SEARCH FOR MYSTERIOUS "BIGFOOT"
Thursday, December 16, 1999
(Thanks to CNI News)

http://www.insidechina.com/news.php3?id=115788

BEIJING, Dec 3, 1999 -- (Agence France Presse) China has launched a new
campaign to track down a legendary half-man half-ape creature dubbed China's
"Bigfoot", official media reported Friday.

A team of scientists from the prestigious Chinese Academy of Sciences are on
the hunt for the mythical animal in the remote forests of the Shennongjia
Nature Reserve in central Hubei, Xinhua reported.

Wang Fangcheng, head of the Committee for the Search for Rare Animals and
Plants, said that paleoanthropologists from the academy were determined to
find proof of the "Bigfoot".

"After repeated frustrations in previous searches, many people have become
disappointed in finding Bigfoot, however, a few scientists believe the
possibility exists that such an animal is still there," Wang said.

A team of scientists, reporters and local officials entered Shennongjia in
October this year after receiving reports of sightings of the animal from a
hunter in August.

According to the hunter, the animal was 2.5 meters tall, covered with long,
red hair, and moved very fast.

The scientists have discovered 40-cm-long footprints, brown hair and chewed
corn cobs at the spot where the hunter said he encountered the strange
beast.

After examining the evidence, Yuan Zhenxin, an established
paleoanthropologist from the academy, ruled out theories that the mystery
animal was in fact a bear.

"There are abundant forests, food and water in the Shennongjia Natural
Reserve which have a warm climate that quite suits the Wild Man," Yuan said.
Scientists have unearthed hundreds of fossilised teeth of an extinct giant
ape in the area, proving that Shennongjia was a home to big primates, Xinhua
reported.

Some scientists have speculated that the "Bigfoot" might be a descendent of
one of the giant apes, Xinhua said.

Hundreds of local people have reported Bigfoot sightings over the past
decades.

China has organized several high-profile searches for the unidentified
animal in recent years, but no conclusive evidence was obtained during the
hunts.

 
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