Animal Tales – October 2019

HiJill!Youmusthave

donealotofresearch

onYetisbefore

startingthisfilm.Can

youtelluswhat you

found?

We didquitea lotofresearch

aboutYetis,andoneofthethings

wediscoveredis thatYetisare

called different things in different

parts of the world, and they can

lookdifferent,too.Sasquatchis a

namefora Yetithatlivesin North

America,andBigFootis another

nameforSasquatch.Butboth

ofthosecreaturesare thoughtto

bebrown,notwhite.Meanwhile,

a Yetilivesin theHimalayan

mountains.Sometimespeople

callthemAbominableSnowmen

... but we don’t think they’re

abominable [or horrible] at all!

THE YETI!

The

of

Movie Magic

Get to know the story behind the

fabled creature in Abominable!

Y

etisareoftendiscussedinfolklor

e

(storiespasseddownthrough

a

groupofpeople).They’resaid

tolivein

theHimalayanmountainsand

areabig

partofthehistoryandmythology

ofthe

nativepeopleofChinaandNepal.

The

mythicalcreaturehasappear

edinmany

TVshowsandmovies,though

scientists

haveneverconfirmeditsexistence.

In

theupcominganimatedfilmAbominable

,

a Chinese girl named Yi finds Ever

est

the Yeti on her roof. We spoke to the

movie’s director, Jill Culton, to see what

she learned about the ape-like creatures

while working on this project.

In Abominable,

friends Jin, Peng^

and Yi try to help

Everest the Yeti find

his way home.

“The exciting thing

about Everest is

that we were able to

dream up his special

power — the power

to control nature,”

Jill smiles.

(^74) Animal (^) Ta le s