Medieval texts claimed the region the Ksy-gyik was found in to be home to a creature known as the "Mi-gö" a bear species whose meat has medicinal purposes. On the right is a description of a monkey to show the differences between the species.
Ksy-gyik or The Central Asian Wildman is a alleged primitive hominid recorded from Dzungarie by Vitalij Chachłow. The diplomat zoologist received first information about catched creature by his expedition carried out from 1911-1914. On the basis of detailed descriptions, it is believed that Primihomo asiaticus is nomen dubium across zoological problems. Further investigations i.g in Zaisans eco-region could reveal its biological status. Informations delivered by Tomasz Pietrzak.
Background[]
Central Asia has been home to many extremely rare species such as the Turkestanian Salamander a creature recorded only once in 1904. While on expedition in the region, Vitalij Chachłow recorded the discovery of a rhinopithecus monkey-like animal dubbed the Ksy-gyik by locals, after making numerous sketches of the creature he reported his discovery to the scientific community in a doctorial thesis and requested further zoological study but his discovery and the subsequent request were quickly overshadowed by the outbreak of World War I, which prevented additional expedition's due to a lack of resources and caused his discovery to fade into obscurity.
The doctorial thesis written by Chachlow was lost with only preliminary notes from its publishing being discovered in the Library of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR in Leningrad by Soviet historian Boris Porshnev in 1954. Porshnev soon tracked down Chachloaw to interview him about the discovery.[1]
In 2004 French travel author Xavier-Laurent Petit, claimed in his book Le col des Milles Larmes to have interacted with a species of creature whose description appears identical to the one discovered by Chachłow while embarking across the rural mountains of Kyrgyzstan.
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