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bluemoth, go get yourself a thermal imaging scope and put it on your camera. Then get us a photo. Better yet, put it on a .338 Lapua rifle and get Leroy a body.

Bluemoth:
That's a little unfair to scientists. Most scientists I know are driven by curiosity and would love to get hard evidence for a new cryptobiotic species. The DNA study was a good example of scientists struggling and failing to get hard evidence for bigfoot. It sounds like you have become a "true believer" in bigfoot and are reading all the bigfoot-believer sites. The reality is that the dna study on all suspected bigfoot artifacts concluded rather clearly that there is no bigfoot. Scientists have repeatedly inspected the bigfoot observations for decades and they continue to find the data are too weak to even hint there might be a bigfoot. What you and others say is "tons of data" is not much. The argument that - "so many have seen something there must be something there" - is very wrong. These type of false reports are extremely contagious to other humans. When someone reports anything weird like bigfoot or a UFO, hundreds of other sightings will follow because people are the way they are. Some deceive themselves, some make things up for the attention, some engage in fraud because it amuses them. Eye-witness evidence is one of the weakest and most unreliable types of data.

Recently I heard a scientist speaking on mapping mosquito occurrence here in NM. To explain her mapping technique she showed a map of bigfoot sightings in North America. She showed how nicely this overlaps with the map of bear sightings. This was good for a chuckle in the audience. Scientists have been checking the bigfoot reports for all the time I have been watching, about 40 years. They don't just dismiss the data- they search for any believable observation that could be published as confirming bigfoot existence... Nothing.

I was just doing some mammal research in Peru in the Madre de Dios area of the Amazon. Our camera traps caught puma, agoutis, tapir and lot of other stuff including "researchers walking by". It is OK for you to say bigfoot is wary of camera traps and avoids them, but you are making things up. Jaguars and puma are very wary and humans try but fail to avoid camera traps. You may as well say bigfoot can become invisible at will since you are just making up bigfoot abilities. A better explanation is that the camera traps of the scientists and hunters don't see bigfoot because there is no bigfoot.

Oh and an insect note, the beetles in the Amazon were great, found about 1000 by eye without traps in a couple of weeks.
Rick

Bluemoth and Rick,

You both need to read "Sasquatch: Legend Meets Science" by Jeff Meldrum. Jeff is a legitimate scientist, one of the few who is willing to risk his reputation by studying such a controversial subject. He examines what evidence there is (and some of it is very interesting) in a scientific manner but does not proclaim that Bigfoot does or does not exist. He doesn't rule out either possibility, but I got the impression that he wouldn't be studying the subject if the evidence he has examined wasn't intriguing enough to warrant further study. As any scientist should, he requires more hard evidence before forming a conclusion. I know of no other book that does a better job of analyzing the evidence.

Ms Blue Moth:

As the gentleman that I am. Here is a suggestion, DNA, how about Big Foot Poop. Have you or others ever found a pile of it. Gather some up and get the DNA.

I am being serious (I know that is hard for some of you to believe.) No gun required.

Here's a thought (And now I am no longer being serious) I once owned a little dog that could break wind and empty a room in a hurry. Do Big Foot's fart. That would be a smell to remember. Of that I am sure! If you smell one and hear a Big Foot giggling, it is a Female.

I just let my wife read this. Her comment, and I quote: "I have been married to you (Me) for over 50 years and you have not changed one iota". There is story behind that remark that I should write about some day.

Did I just write the above. And I do not drink beer, booze, or smoke wacky tabacky.

i bet most of the sittings are centred around tiny, remote Forrest towns / villages with a few empty hotels, b and b's, a little shop and a fuel station that serve a dozen locals a day then miraculously someone spots good old "apparently common" Bigfoot and suddenly the small town / village is a busy, bustling tourist spot for a few months or so and when it's all blown over, the original inhabitants of this place can all retire on the profits.

Rich

P.S, Leptraps, I can show you caracas, it's the capital city of Venezuela, a carcass on the other hand I can't help you with, don't you just hate predictive text.

What scientist woukd lose their jobs if they found a Bigfoot? I mean no one stopped them finding Giant Squids and Coelacanths, and countless other new species. I think every biologist would love to be the one with a genuine Bigfoot body in their possession. Even if they did no other science in their life, they would become famous overnight and get enough interviews to keep them paid for life.