What Do Yetis Eat?
Posted by: Loren Coleman on October 11th, 2008
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If they belong to the Hominidae family there is a great chance that they are omnivorious. If they eat meat, is it hunted or scavanged? That is also a question to answer. I think I can recall some story of a Yeti surprising a girl with a herd and killing one of the yaks.
as i read before.. they herbivores i suppose or omnivores. ;0
not carnivores well at least humans they don’t eat.
maybe some variations of sasquatch eats humans.
like forexample:
crocodiles, alligators eat humans
but Gharial’s don’t
maybe they eat yaks and some algae could drink snow
“Whatever they want to” 🙂
So, the alleged creature in the background with the salt and pepper shakers ( the so-called creature is so clearly a line of otters coincidentally trooping through the snowy woods–anyone can see that ), is it going after the hikers or after their sandwiches and carrot?
Wait, what do you mean this isn’t a trail cam photo? No blobsquatch?
Nevermind.
Depends on what it -is-. Hominids and pongids tend to be omnivores, but that isn’t hard and fast: mountain gorillas (if I’m not mistaken) and giant pandas are vegetarians, and the Inuit and Eskimo (Todd Palin’s people prefer that term for themselves, and dislike the former, so it is kosher) are carnivores in practice.
So, we don’t know. I think we have suspicions concerning the NW sasquatch liking apples, and the eastern napes liking venison, but Yeti?
Yeti:
“I like humans. They taste like chicken. They’re also good with Grey Pupon.” 🙂
This is a great question! They must eat vegetation or animals that eat vegetation. Therefore they have to descend to the forest or grassland at lower altitudes. They could eat fish. Then they would have to reach a river or stream that provides habitat.
Unless there is a source of nutrition we aren’t thinking of. Could there be a cave or crevasse ecosystem that has gone unremarked? There would have to be plenty of food for something that big.
Seems I’ve seen reports of Squatch observed catching and eating cow calf, deer, wild pig/boar, rockpiled rodents, housed poultry, penned rabbits, fish, insects etc, plus wild and domestic fruits & veggies of many types…
Kinda like us, huh?
There is a huge food resource, which is never mentioned as far as I am aware and which may be available to the yeti and when other food resources are in short supply.That is tree buds and any other buds there may be whose nutritional potential is worth the effort and not ruled out by plant defences, such as unpalatibility or poison. If the vegetation was dormant any defensive reaction from the plant such an as increases in tannin might be switched off.
There is a huge biomass of buds in a forest with concentrations of nutrition within the bud. Anecdotally apple buds have a pleasant nutty taste and are always worth a nibble, ditto hawthorn! I’m sure there a many others in any forest. I’ve always imagined gigantopethicus making the most of this resource with his solid grinders.
Notwithstanding I think the indications are that the yeti and their like are omnivores.
@sschaper: that’s because Inuit is a specific people and not inclusive of all ‘Eskimo’ peoples, namely the Inuit, Yupik and Aleut. Still though, in Canada the term Eskimo is considered to be pejorative and we don’t use it. If Palin doesn’t know or want to disclose what group or tribe of peoples he comes from, he could use the term ‘Alaska Native’, since that is how they are identified under law there.
I just wanted to point that out.