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My thoughts; Who knows
Topic Started: Mar 11 2008, 10:23 AM (178 Views)
fletch2820	Mar 11 2008, 10:23 AM Post #1
Mid-Life Squatch Posts: 208 Group: Members Member #71 Joined: July 25, 2005	What is it? An animal. Primate to be precise. I think it's some kind of link between the gorilla and chimpanzee, but doesn't have the capabilities of climbing tree's like the chimps and younger gorilla's have. What makes me think this is it's size, somewhat similar facial features, being covered in hair, what I surmise it' diet to be and it's surmised ability to apparently think things out to an extent. One thing I havn't mentioned in any of the other threads yet, I believe it uses tools and believe I may have found one. Chimps use tools. Chimps are omnivorous. Being I believe omnivorous as well as possibly using tools, this aligns them with chimps. The "no-neck" theory: I've seen one look over it's shoulder at me and didn't turn it's torso any further than a human would. I've seen another look to it's right, not quite aligning it's head with it's shoulder, but fairly close. It didn't need to turn it's torso to do so. I believe their "having no neck" is an illusion. I feel their musculature is massive enough and to the extent, it simply appears they have no neck. Numbers: I doubt there are gazillions out there, but I believe they are in higher numbers than what some suspect. I believe that since they may be omnivorous, they are classified as predators by nature. Being in that classification they would be at, near, or on an even keel with animals such as the Grizzly at a minimum. Not unlike other predators such as wolves, bears, cougars etc., nature would insure their numbers would stay at a lower level than what the prey for a given area would be in order to preserve the dominant species as well as the prey species. Size: There are "reports" I've seen for heights approaching 15 feet. I say hogwash. It's either adrenaline talking or an exaggeration to make the tale more exciting. The larger the animal is the more likely it is to be an herbivore and also notice the larger an animal is the more slower it moves due to it's size. Also notice that it's known capability of walking upright, on two legs would give it a skeletal system similar to ours. A skeletal system such as ours is poorly constructed to support a height and resulting weight for anything standing 15 feet. Nature can only make bone and cartilage so dense. I would judge the tallest to be about 7' and possibly 8' at the most give or take a few inches. Fur coloring: Of the ones I've seen, their fur coloring was no different than any other animals as nature insured the coloring allowed them to blend in with their surroundings. Number of toes: 3,4 and 5. Do they exist with 3, 4 and 5 toes? Yes. Why? I dunno. I know that for the area's I've been in, I've only seen one 3 toed track. Normally I see 4 toed tracks. Eye coloring: In daylight I've been close enough to see the eye coloring of one and the eyes were a dark color. After dark I've sen amber and turquoise blue reflections. Since the eyes reflect light well, obviously they have good night vision. Diurnal or nocturnal: I think they may be no different than a lot of other wildlife such as deer, rabbits, foxes, coyote's etc. They'll move about as needed and sleep when needed. Living/sleeping quarters: I think if a ready made shelter is handy they'll use it. Why wouldn't they? As far as erecting something or excavating a cave,,, why? A lot of work for something for the night. They're huge as far as wildlife goes, therefore they have to eat a lot. If they have to eat a lot and omnivores as well, they have to move around a lot or they'll have all the food sources depleted in an area in short order. This would make a shelter they have constructed a waste of time and energy, and wildlife frowns upon wasting energy. If it's surmised they stay within a given area, I'll agree, to an extent. A shelter that is permanent would have been found by now, and none have been to include caves. A shelter would also indicate an area is prosperous to any rivals in the area and may invite a "takeover" which would be avoided by the current "owners" of the area. I would think they would do no more than give indications of strength and allow others to think, "this area is no better than yours so stay over there." Aggressiveness: I havn't been attacked to date, but I dunno if I've ever gotten between mama and junior either. I've had debris thrown at me and been growled at for being to close. Considering the size, speed and the fact these are wild, untamed animals, the wise choice is to assume that not unlike any other wild animal, they will defend themselves and attack if provoked. Wild animals will normally go out of their way to avoid conflict. The reason for this is if they injure themselves, they have no emergency room to go to and may very well die from an injury, so, it's safer to run than to fight. Number of offspring: I'm going on personal observation to the point I can as well as comparison to other animals. Personal observation led me to believe one offspring per year. Comparing to other large animals, one per year. Look at other large animals in the wild. The larger the animal, the lesser numbers of offspring they have. These being predators also, nature will ensure they have a lesser number of offspring than non-predators. Smells: 11 sitings and I've never smelled anything whatsoever,,, and I'm a non-smoker. I'm thinking that being predators, they may very well be scavangers as well and the "rotten odor" others have smelled may have been from scavanging. The "wet dog" smell others have used to describe what they smelled, may have been just that,,, a wet stinky animal that needs a bath. Why are they still not "known to science": I doubt there's a conspiracy here. Why would there be? I'm taking into consideration their size,diet and need for stealth. If they were strictly vegetarians, they wouldn't have a lot of need for stealth as their size alone would make them a formidable opponent to a predator. Being omnivorous, they require stealth, after all, one can't just walk up and clunk something like a deer on the head. A deer or anything else would have to be gotten rather close to in order to conserve energy in capturing it. This being the case, taking their size and diet into consideration, they would have to be superb in woods craft. Being superb at stealth,having numbers far below those of non-predators and being in a position of fleeing rather than the possibility of a confrontation, I myself don't find it far fetched that there is no "conspiracy" and everything is as nature intended. Addendum: I'm anticipating the questions of the mention of a tool. The link below is a small pointed stick I and some others found jammed into a fungus growing on the side of a tree some 7+ foot off the ground. No idea what it was used for or how it go there. The only fact about it is, the point was not done with a sharpened blade as there are no tell tale "flat" sides on the point like a sharpened blade would leave. The point was ground onto the stick. This was in an area area of bows, activity and near a stream. http://www.geocities.com/fletch2820/pics/tool1.jpg
	May I borrow some of your patience please? Mine ran out long ago......Fletch. "Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe." A. Einstein


Tom-tom	Mar 11 2008, 08:58 PM Post #2
Easy Going Posts: 326 Group: Admin Member #18 Joined: June 5, 2005	Finding a stick that was apparently altered to have point is interesting. Discovering it stuck into fungus on a tree 7+' off the ground is hard to account for with documented fauna and flora out there. However, I am not an expert wildlife biologist. If it is bigfoot related, I would speculate that it stores this possible tool in the fungus like we store our toothbrush in a toothbrush holder. Who knows, maybe Bf was using it as a tooth pick. lol



fletch2820	Mar 11 2008, 09:12 PM Post #3
Mid-Life Squatch Posts: 208 Group: Members Member #71 Joined: July 25, 2005	Just glad he wasn't picking parts of me out of his teeth.
	May I borrow some of your patience please? Mine ran out long ago......Fletch. "Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe." A. Einstein


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