Reports that Abomasnow eat hapless travelers are nothing more than rumors, but these pokemon should nonetheless be treated with an abundance of caution. Fierce blizzards follow wherever Abomasnow travel, and it is this, not a penchant for human flesh, which makes them so dangerous. Their tough, snow-covered body combines the sturdiness of a tree trunk with the camouflage of a Glaceon, and colliding with them is often fatal.
Abomasnow are not malicious pokemon; on the contrary, they weep for every person they kill. They are gentle giants, often seen carrying off the corpses of those killed in these collisions to give them a proper burial in snow too thick to melt for thousands of years. Yet because these bodies are not found for eons, and because Abomasnow look more like menacing beasts than trees, men familiar with predatory and scavenging pokemon have throughout history jumped to the worst of conclusions.
The bodies preserved by Abomasnow burials, on those rare occasions they have surfaced, have become a boon to paleontology and archaeology alike. The evergreen leaves of Abomasnow preserve whatever they touch against erosion, an ability which lets an individual Abomasnow survive for thousands of years; it is fire, not old age, which usually does them in. It is said that beneath the polar icecaps sits the largest group of Abomasnow burials, a graveyard of natural history millions of years old. If discovered, it would be a boon to science many a pokemon professor would love to obtain. But treasure hunters and pokedex holders alike shy away, for this area is still guarded by many an Abomasnow, and Abomasnow are still an extremely dangerous pokemon rumored to devour human flesh.