The Ape-man cometh and buffaloes fly

Writer: Murray Stewart

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Bigfoot se moer?

Recently, increased interest has been shown in an elusive, almost mythical creature which has haunted various cultures around the globe for centuries. This upsurge in interest was, to a large extent, created by media exposure, and lately through documentaries made for ‘reality’ TV.

Depending on the location, this beast is known as Bigfoot, Sasquatch or Yeti. They walk upright, stand up to 3 metres tall, and have brown/black fur in the Pacific Northwest/Alaska, and beige/cream in the Himalayas.

Science boffins wearing white lab coats and glasses have studied the Evolution Tree, and reckon they’re probably a side-branch of Neanderthals called the Denisovan. They developed and survived out on a limb in remote, inaccessible areas where we, Homo sapiens on a different branch further up, couldn’t be bothered the schlep of finding them and driving them to extinction too.

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