From their excrement, it can be inferred that the beings ate plant roots, stalks, leaves, wild fruits, and insects such as beetles.

What surprised some was their purported living areas, which were weaved by using more than 20 bamboo arrows with several wound into a circle to make the bottom and several more into another circle connected to the former. After several confirmations, scientists believed that the bamboo lodgings were not made by animals, but by beings that were between humans and high-level primates.

Wild man in Shennongjia was a strange animal. Exploring the riddles of his existence still needs continued investigation.

 White Animals

In 1954, a medicinal herb grower found the first white animal in the area - a white bear - a docile animal with rosy muffled nose and red eyes.

White bears at Shennongjia live at an elevation of 1,500 meters and eat fruit as well as bamboo shoots. Its body is formed much like a black bear's but the animal has better eyesight than his cousin.

Also in the area are white snakes. In fact, in ancient times, people found white snakes that were considered deities and were well respected.
Shennongjia is a wild animals' paradise, where not only bears and snakes are white. Other animals such as the white monkey, white roe, white magpie, white crow, white weasel and many other exotic animals exist.

Researcher Song Jing of the Chinese Academy of Science once inspected Shennongjia's white animals and believes that the appearance of these strange animals was caused by the expansion of people in the area, which reduced the animals' living area. Inbreeding apparently resulted in the birth of white animals, Song speculates.

But some people believe white animals at Shennongjia have existed a long time and are more centralized there than other places. This theory hypothesizes that the trait is not an accident of pure albinism, but is a kind of new animal species.

Author:Ivana

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