I still don’t like this argument, but it sure as heck applies a lot more to Bigfoot than to some other things.
To take the subject line literally, I don’t know of any biological law that precludes the existence of a Bigfoot-like creature, but then again, I don’t know of any general agreement on what biological traits and features define a Bigfoot either.
That is part of the offered protection–the Sasquatchamacallit sends him a signal, and he comes and kicks ass. There’s more of the many great powers it offers, though I haven’t made them up yet… I mean discerned them yet. but trust me, that thing is AWESOME.
Well he damn well better have big feet, to start, or I want my money back.
The most important thing of course is whether he is intelligent. If so, and perhaps extremely shy, he could know to hide, and not let his evidence be easily found, meaning we have to look injust the right spot to find evidence, cause he burie his scat or removes it, watches for hair caught on limbs, and never goes far from home to begin with.
The only real evidence is in his lair or maybe graveyard. If he’s smart the lair is not the graveyard.
Bigfoot lives in a cave the only entrance to which that is large enough is underwater in an icy lake not many people swim in. And maybe he can dive really deep and can hold his breath fifteen or twenty minutes no problem. There’s small cracks and stuff into his cave fro air, but none big enough for him or us to get through.
He ventures outside to gather makah ozettes, once a year or so puts on sunglasses and pretends he is in ZZ Top to go to town and get a few basics…No-one notices because you don’t think that big smelly guy in the grocery store could be Bigfoot, you just wish ZZ Top fans bathed more and do your best to not notice him. He occasionally kills a hiker to get their Pink Floyd CDs and has a big patch of marijuana the feds haven’t found yet and knows the best patches of psilocybes. That’s why he’s so shy–he’s paranoid as fuck.
By supplementing his diet with Cub Scouts.
And a Brownie for dessert.
Send all donations to me instead. That is not a joke.
Did I ever tell you about the time I got kicked out of the Boy Scouts for eating a Brownie?
They don’t have to consciously be making up stories. Like MrKnowItAll said:
People see weird things all the time. Some people will think “Huh, that was weird, I wonder what I saw.” Others might go “it was Bigfoot!”
The proof isn’t on the people to prove that Bigfoot doesn’t exist. You basically can’t prove the non-existence of something. You can’t prove that there’s not a teapot that orbits the sun. It’s on the people who say that Bigfoot exists to prove his existence. So far, they’ve offered no proof.
If you think the Pacific Northwest is solid forest, you’d be wrong … half the land is arid desert and the rest is a patchwork of clearcuts and second growth timber. Everyplace a deer can go, hunters follow.
But they risk a smack with a wet salmon!
The Bigfoots (Bigfeet?) got a break when DB Cooper landed in their backyard. That large influx of cash really changed the BF lifestyle. They don’t have to work so hard for food. Now they’re all shiftless and lazy. They stay in and get stoned and listen to Pink Floyd all day. No wonder there aren’t any sightings any more!
BTW, he does exist, but the name is Pigfoot.
Bigfoot, no. It would have had to cross over to the Americas earlier than humans, at least during the previous interglacial. Uncharacteristically for a primate, it would have failed to make anyhting of itself with its own set of continents.
I.e. its remained in an unrealistically narrow ecological and geographical niche for too long.
The Yeti…well, that seems to have been identified. Not a hominid sorry. A bear. At best an ice age species that survived in a himalayan refugee after the end of the Ice Age.
You have the right idea. I know a guy just like that. Hasn’t come out of the house for three years that anybody knows of.
he doesn’t even know he’s high though, he thinks it normal–he’s just gathering some easy food, ya know. Fries em right up–potatoes with mushrooms and herbs. As a side dish to roast Hiker, of course.
I don’t believe this at all, unless you can convince me by linking to some studies.
There are plenty of fruits available in Europe, temperate Asia and North America. Think about blueberries and raspberries in North America, apples in Central Asia, and so forth. It’s true the fruit is only available seasonally, but then, fruit is only available seasonally in a lot of tropical environments (dry forests, savannahs, etc.) and primates are certainly abundant in those. And of course temperate environments have plenty of nuts and seeds which are available year-round.
It’s also not the case that ‘primates eat fruit’, there are some primates which subsist mostly off leaves, and chimpanzees even supplement their diet with hunting.
These primates certainly live in temperate environments:
I think we’ve settled the food issue.
Anybody else got another reason Big foot couldn’t be in the Pacific Northwest?
I think we’re all conceded that there is no eivdence there is, so asking if there are reasons he couldn’t be is the best it gets.
We never find bones because porcupines eat Bigfoot bones.
I think Bigfoot is blurry, that’s the problem. It’s not the photographer’s fault. Bigfoot is blurry, and that’s extra scary to me. There’s a large, out-of-focus monster roaming the countryside. Run, he’s fuzzy, get out of here.
From what I can tell, the best Bigfoot sightings occurred in the 1970’s before the Mt. St. Helen’s eruption which I feel, if they were there, killed them off. So nowadays any Bigfeet left live in Canada or Alaska.
Incidentally in one episode of “Monster Hunters” the one on Bigfoot discusses how these regions seldom get visitors anymore because they can be hundreds of miles from major ciites and only the most diehard hikers would trek there. In this way you might have some isolated areas of forest which nobody has set foot in for years. People sometimes own houses or cabins but those are only busy during certain times of the year. Whereas in earlier times their were alot more hunters and trappers living there. This is where Les Stroud had his encounters.
On why you dont find dead ones, on another board a poster discussed his encounter back around 1975 when he was hunting and he had one dead to rights in the scope of his deer rifle. Problem is looking at it, and it looking at him, it looked so humanlike (it was a female holding a young one) he felt killing it would be akin to murder. So it might be that people who really know about them, are protecting them. It isnt unusual for locals to keep some secrets like the best fishing or hunting areas so I think this is plausible.
Yeah, I know. Not scientific.
Or in any way plausible.