Quest for a cryptozoologist (4)

I believe the answer is:

yeti

(Other definitions for yeti that I've seen before include "Hairy recluse" , "It probably doesn't exist" , "fictional creature" , "... and creature supposedly there" , "The Abominable Snowman in Tibetan" .)

I've seen this clue in The Wall Street Journal.

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