I see roadkill squirrels all the time, and some of them are partially skeletonized. Turkey buzzards eat a lot of them, and they have small bones, so their bones get eaten. A primate larger than a human would probably get eaten my some scavengers out in the woods, but it would have huge femurs, and large, hard skulls, so I think we’d find some of those, particularly considering how hard people have been looking.
Is bear hunting legal in the area bigfoot is supposed to exist? If it is, I think that at some point, someone would have accidentally shot a bigfoot, mistaking it for a bear.
Not that I advocate any other theories, as I call them laughable myself, but I’d like to add this lack of evidence only concerns a premise that Bigfoot lives like an animal in the Wild.
I have heard some kooks say he is an outer-space alien and someone here even mentioned he is a being from an alternate dimension.
There’s no evidence for these claims either, but at least the hypothesis explains why we can’t find any “wild-Animal style” evidence.
But there is also the possibility that (again this is nothing but speculation) Bigfoot IS in fact a colony of beings that lives in caves and seldom ventures out, and is intelligent enough to realize they need to pick up after themselves in the outdoors, so the reason we can’t find any evidence is because we haven’t looked in the right place–his lair. There’s a lot of animals it is hard to come up with physical evidence for until we find their lair, where there is a lot of evidence.
But the likelihood of any large mammals existing on the earth we don’t know about is incredibly tiny.
I have a long list of animal skeletons I have seen–some of which have caused some lively debate in my family over what they were.
The real question about squirrels is how many squirrel dens did you climb up into trees to look in? I once witnessed a squirrel get hit by a car, and two other squirrels came and helped the injured squirrel back into a tree, where it may have easily died. They are known to be social, bringing sick members food and water they keep in their cheeks to bring them.
The squirrel “hospital” is in a tree. Did you look there?
Clearly, some remnant population of Denisovans migrated form Asia along with the proto-Amerinds, giving birth to the Sasquatch legend. “Sasquatch” being the Denisovan word meaning “Our People”. It’s the only Denisovan word that survives today.
But it’s absurd to believe there is an extant population living in North America today.
I was joking. Denisovans were a species of Homo that lived in Siberia (and elsewhere) and that were contemporaneous with Sapiens and Neanderthals. We don’t know a lot about them other than they were neither Sapiens nor Neanderthals.
There’s lots of folks who bushwack, hiking off trail. When you do so you stumble across all sorts of skeletons and corpses, not to mention lots of spoor and other evidence of creatures. There are just too many humans in the woods for something like this to go unnoticed.
Right. I kind wondered where you got that “Sasquatch” word theory from. I’d a thunk we don’t know any of their words or even if they talked at all.
This of course does little to explain whether the Amerinds might have brought a gigantopithicus oral story with them to eventually become the sasquatch legend.
I never understand comments about not seeing skeletons, not seeing dead birds, and the like. I see them all the time. But then, I see a lot of things* that many people don’t seem to see, like dead animals, coins, live birds, acorns, ants, flowers, etc.
I walked to work Thursday. On my walk I saw a skeletonized (except the tail) squirrel, a dead, partly-eaten jay, another dead squirrel in the road, a dead cat, and part of another dead bird. I also saw several interesting species of waterfowl, a large number of ants pouring out of holes between sidewalk sections at my building, jasmine on trellises, a live cat, and any number of Subaru Foresters.
When I traveled to Botswana, people who had been there assured me that there weren’t any birds there in winter. I saw something like 79 species. When I traveled to the Dominican Republic, people who had lived there for two years as Peace Corps volunteers assured me that there were no birds. I saw at least 20 species within an area of a few acres, mostly a town. But people I was with didn’t see birds even when I pointed them out–it wasn’t their area of interest, and they they may not have been very observant of detail in a more general way.
Start looking for skeletons. If you’re not looking, you probably don’t see them. If you’re looking, you might well.
Indeed. I’ve never understood how grown adults could even for a moment seriously entertain the notion that Bigfoot could be real. But then, I’ve never understood how grown adults could believe in UFOs or ghosts either.
