{"id":9815,"date":"2012-07-09T12:01:15","date_gmt":"2012-07-09T06:01:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cryptopia.us\/site\/?p=9815"},"modified":"2012-11-16T13:27:31","modified_gmt":"2012-11-16T07:27:31","slug":"9815","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cryptopia.us\/site\/2012\/07\/9815\/","title":{"rendered":"SEARCH FOR CHINA&#8217;S WILDMAN TO BEGIN!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cryptopia.us\/site\/category\/monsters\/hairy-hominids\/\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-734\" title=\"hairy-hominids\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.cryptopia.us\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/hairy-hominids.gif?resize=100%2C99\" alt=\"\" width=\"100\" height=\"99\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.smh.com.au\/world\/quest-to-find-the-wild-man-20120703-21eaf.html\" target=\"_\">The Sydney Morning Herald<\/a> has reported that scientists in China maybe be on the verge of discovering the legendary wild man.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>For centuries, the villagers around the Shennongjia forest of China&#8217;s central Hubei province &#8212; a forbidding 1,000 square mile reserve of high mountains and deep forests &#8212; have believed that the &#8220;Wild Man&#8221;, or YEREN, lives among them.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cryptopia.us\/site\/2010\/10\/bigfoot-hunting-dogs-search-for-evidence\/yeren1\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-5119\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-5119\" title=\"yeren1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.cryptopia.us\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/yeren1.jpg?resize=150%2C246\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"246\" \/><\/a>Standing just under 7- feet tall and covered in dark grey hair, this Chinese incarnation of BIGFOOT or the YETI has been spotted hundreds of times, but no one has ever proven its existence.<\/p>\n<p>This weekend, however, a new team of 38 researchers drawn from several Chinese universities and research institutes will fan out across the Shennongjia reserve on an expedition to catalogue the region&#8217;s unique ecosystem.<\/p>\n<p>Their trip will continue throughout August, and the researchers will collect data on some 1000 different types of animals that live in Shennongjia, including the golden snub-nosed monkey and a white-furred bear that is found only in the reserve.<\/p>\n<p>If the researchers manage to uncover concrete evidence of the Wild Man, they will have succeeded where two previous major expeditions &#8212; one from 1974 to 1981 and one in 2010 &#8212; failed. Wang Shancai, of the Hubei Relics and Archaeology Institute, stated:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;I simply want to put an end to the argument that it exists.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Sydney Morning Herald has reported that scientists in China maybe be on the verge of discovering the legendary wild man.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2504,"featured_media":11997,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[343,630,24,498,1121,497,164,162],"class_list":{"0":"post-9815","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-almas","9":"tag-almasti","10":"tag-bigfoot","11":"tag-china-wildman","12":"tag-news","13":"tag-wild-man","14":"tag-yeren","15":"tag-yeti"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.cryptopia.us\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/yeti3-300x199.jpg?fit=300%2C199&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptopia.us\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9815","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptopia.us\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptopia.us\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptopia.us\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2504"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptopia.us\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9815"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptopia.us\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9815\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10044,"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptopia.us\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9815\/revisions\/10044"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptopia.us\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11997"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptopia.us\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptopia.us\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptopia.us\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}