Yeren (Paperback)

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Yeren variously referred to as the Yiren, Yeh Ren, Chinese Wildman, or Man-Monkey, is a legendary creature said to be an as yet undiscovered hominid residing in the mountainous forested regions of China's remote Hubei province. Witnesses typically report the creatures to be covered in reddish-brown hair. Some white specimens have also been sighted. Their height is estimated to range from six to eight feet, although some colossal examples allegedly in excess of ten feet tall have been reported. Some cryptozoologists have drawn a link between the Yeren and the extinct hominid Gigantopithecus, which formerly inhabited the general region. It has also been suggested that the Yeren is actually a new species of orangutan, one that is ground-dwelling, bipedal and native to mainland Asia instead of Borneo or Sumatra. It is also thought that the Yeren might just be a legend.