Legend has it that there are savages in Shennongjia. Is it true?/You don't say.

The first impression of Shennongjia is that there are savages. Although this is largely unknown, the rumors about Shennongjia savage have been deeply rooted in people's hearts. It seems very difficult to separate the savage from Shennongjia! But the existence of savages is still a question. Let's discuss whether it is possible from a scientific attitude today!

About Shennongjia

Generally speaking, Shennongjia refers to Shennongjia forest area, where it is said that Shennongjia once set up scaffolding to collect medicinal materials. 1970, the State Council approved the establishment of "Shennongjia Forest Area" in the neighboring areas of Fangxian, Xingshan and Badong, which was under the jurisdiction of the province, hence the name of Shennongjia Mountain Peak (Shennongding and Da Shennongjia). On July 7th, 2007, 2065438, Shennongjia was listed in the World Natural Heritage List and became the 50th World Heritage in China. It is also the first protected area, geological relic and heritage site in China to be included in the UNESCO World Biosphere Reserve Network, the World Geopark Network and the World Heritage System.

The scope includes Shennongding and Laojun Mountain, which is one of the three areas with the richest biodiversity in China. There are a large number of rare animals and plants here, providing resources and examples for the study of animal and plant ecology. Shennongjia has a total area of 3,253 square kilometers and a forest coverage rate of 69.5%. The mountains in the territory belong to Shennongjia Mountain in the east of Qinling Mountains. The terrain is high in the south and low in the north, with an average elevation of 1.700 meters. There are more than 400 peaks, large and small, and the terrain is extremely complicated!

The whole story of Shennongjia savage rumor

Shennongjia belongs to the north subtropical monsoon climate, which is a transitional area from subtropical to temperate zone. The average temperature varies greatly, and the annual precipitation is 800-2500mm. The climate is more suitable, the products are extremely rich, and there are many sightings of "exotic animals of upright higher primates", so Shennongjia has become the hottest focus of "savage"!

On 1974, the deputy team leader of Shennongjia production team witnessed a savage and reported it. This is the first recorded case of Shennongjia savage sighting.

On May 4th, 1976, five cadres and drivers of the Party Committee and Government of Shennongjia Forest Region witnessed a savage with red hair, whose height was 1.8~ 1.9 meters.

The discovery of the savage is definitely a big event, which attracted great attention after the report. So, under the leadership of 1977 Hubei Provincial Committee and Chinese Academy of Sciences, the largest "savage" scientific research team was established since the founding of the People's Republic of China, with top researchers from various scientific research institutions in related fields, including 33,700 Wuhan Army. The expedition lasted 40 days, covering 1500 square kilometers, almost half the area of Shennongjia!

Major Discovery1:1977 On the evening of June19, it was reported that Gong Yulan, a female member of Li Qun Brigade of Fangxian Qiaoshang Commune, and her 4-year-old son Yang Mingan were "savages" in Lu Yu on the draft cliff. The expedition found dozens of brown hairs left by "savage" in the local area.

Identification results: it is similar to human hair, but quite different from gibbon, gorilla and chimpanzee hair. Similar to the hair found in seven other places later, it shows that this animal may indeed exist, but it is uncertain whether it is a savage.

Footprints of "Savage"

Major discovery 2: The expedition team found a row of footprints on the Yuyin River, with a span of about 1 m, a footprint length of 25 cm and a radian of 30 degrees. The big toe is obviously separated from the other four toes, and the front of the sole is wide and the back is narrow, indicating that this is a biped. A large number of footprints were also found under the slate in Shennongjia, and the largest footprint was 42 cm long.

According to the footprint analysis, the animal is about 2 meters tall and may weigh more than 150 kg.

From the beginning to the end of the Shennongjia savage incident, the time of exploration has been marked yellow.

During the third expedition of 1980, thousands of savage footprints were found, with a maximum length of 48 cm and a maximum stride of 2.2 meters. In June of the same year, a nest made of arrow bamboo, a woven bamboo, was found in the bamboo forest at an altitude of 2680 meters on the southwest slope of Hongyanzi, much like a sofa chair.

In addition, in the investigation of 1976, the excrement of savages was also found, which was obviously different from that of orangutans, bears and humans, but its shape was very similar to that of humans. So savage really exists?

Two rumors about Shennongjia savage

19 15 A hunter named Wang Laozhong was kidnapped by a female savage and gave birth to a little savage. When the little savage grew up, he fled home without the attention of the female savage, only to find that he had been missing for more than ten years.

1938 A woman was abducted by a savage and gave birth to a son like a monkey ten months later. When she grows up, she is obviously not like human beings, but a transitional species between apes and humans. Because of its strong aggression, it was locked by chains and died of wound infection in depression.

Is it possible for Shennongjia savage to exist?

The official large-scale savage investigation has been terminated since the 1980s, but the folk investigation on savage continues. Wang Chen, secretary general of China Association for Scientific Exploration, is the leader of the savage "explorer". He has been looking for "savage" for nearly 20 years!

198610/at the beginning of October, Wang Chen learned that there was a "monkey baby" born of a cross between apes in nanbu county, Shennongjia, and he immediately went to investigate. At that time, the baby monkey was 33 years old, completely different from the human body. It was very tall and had big feet. The collarbone was not zigzag, but V-shaped, which was a big difference between gorillas and humans. However, after the information obtained by Wang Chen was transferred to Jia Lanpo and Huang Wanbo, a paleoanthropologist, who poured cold water on him, two paleoanthropologists told him that the monkey baby was just a patient with cerebellar diseases.

As early as 1956, there were typical cases. On the afternoon of April 24, the lunar calendar, it was raining lightly. On her way home, a little girl herding cattle suddenly met a humanoid monster and screamed with fear. The monster was killed by the people who heard it with a stick and reported it to the local government. The biology teacher of Songyang Zongxue looked at the hands and feet sent by others to make specimens. However, after the animal experts identified the hands and feet, they thought it was just a macaque with a height of 1.2 meters.

An Israeli macaque "learned" to walk upright after a serious illness.

These two situations are typical, because people's discrimination ability is weak, and they may be frightened by preconceived ideas at that time, or make mistakes in dim light. Take the macaque for example, even if they kill it, they won't recognize it as just a monkey.

From a biological point of view, there is almost no possibility of the existence of Shennongjia savage, for the following reasons:

To continue the population, we must ensure a certain scale.

If there are savages, their bones or fossils should often be found.

The population size should be at least several hundred, because that can ensure the continuation, otherwise inbreeding will soon be extinct. If savages really exist, then it is obvious that several people died unexpectedly, so the possibility of finding bones in the wild will be higher, but unless there is a tunnel through time and space in Shennongjia, wild talents will come out to wander!

From 65438 to 0989, Frank Boyril, an anthropologist from Ohio State University, discovered in Shennongjia that many species had been mistaken for savages by local villagers, including bears, gibbons, macaques and even golden monkeys. The last golden monkey is really strange, but it is not strange in an emergency. In the end, most people have a problem, that is, they will tell their friends what they have seen, so that things will not be too busy.