Amid the dense greenery of the jungle, throbbing with the hum of insects, the young boy lifts his arm and points: the creature was there. It was sitting on a rock in the cleft of a cave, said the 11-year-old, and although he only saw it for a few seconds, he is adamant that it was like nothing he'd seen before. "Its face was like that of a monkey," Tengsim Marak recalled, as we stand and peer into the murkiness of the cave. "But the creature was much bigger than a human."For generations, the people of the state of Meghalaya in the far north-east of India, have whispered stories about the Mande Burung, or the Man of the Jungle. At night, whendarkness falls like a black cloak thrown across the forest, they sit and share stories of a creature living among the trees, half man and half ape, occasionally glimpsed through the foliage or more often heard, its strange call echoing across the rice paddies.
It is said to stand 10ft tall and weigh up to 45 stone.Forest department officials and most serious scientists have always dismissed the reports as tribal folklore and considered them a local variant of similar stories told elsewhere in the world about the yeti, Bigfoot or Sasquatch. Yet the story of the Mande Burung has an intriguing and, just maybe, remarkable twist.
Earlier this
year, a group of amateur "yeti-hunters" from Meghalaya gave two hairs
they say they discovered in a "nest" of the Mande Burung to a renowned
British primatologist. Having examined the hairs,Ian Redmond said they
were like that of no other creature known to live in these jungles.
Even more teasingly, Dr Redmond said that under the microscope the
hairs most closely resembled those of a human, a chimp, a gorilla or
else the purported "yeti hairs" brought back by the late Sir Edmund
Hilary's 1953 Everest expedition.
The hairs are now
undergoing DNA tests. Dr Redmond was cautious about what the creature
may be. The most mundane explanation is that it is an already-known
species, but one whose existence in the jungles of Meghalaya had not
previously been recorded. "We have not ruled out every known species
but we have looked at those species known to live in that area," said
Dr Redmond, a senior consultant to the UN's Great Apes Survival
Project. Alternatively the hairs could belong to a previously unknown
species. As Dr Redmond points out,jus......
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