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Abominable Snowmen: The Present Position

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 April 2009

William C. Osman Hill
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On ancient Indian maps the mountainous northern frontier is referred to as the Mahalangur-Himal, which may be translated as the mountains of the big monkeys. In view of recent reports one naturally wonders whether the big monkeys referred o t were the large langurs (Semnopithecus), which are known to ascend to the hills to altitudes of 12,000 feet, or to something still larger, which ranges to even higher altitudes.

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Oryx , Volume 6 , Issue 2 , August 1961 , pp. 86 - 98
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Copyright © Fauna and Flora International 1961

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