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This Q of "How many Calories" is a good Q. I would call it part of the Life Support Q. That is, what does Bigfoot need to survive if bigfoot it real? Food Supply seems to be an issue brought up by the science skeptic types on these Bigfoot shows on TV. Before we dismiss it, I would say we have to give it a fair consideration. I remember a grey-haired lady scientist on one of these shows describing the PNW as I recall it a "Vaste wasteland" to find food. She correctly assumed there needs to be a certain number of calories to feed a big animal and esp. one with a big brain. I completely disagree with the area being a wasteland. (As I remember the show, she did at least look closer at the PGF in the end of the episode and admitted the gait of Patty was odd and not ape or human. At least that is something) We don't know if Bigfoot would be a Carnivore, omnivore, or whatever. Assuming it eats meat, I would think Fish in the stream make sense. Yet, we never see them fighting bear for salmon on a regular basis, but the bear is there on a regular basis. It's reasonable for skeptics to base any disbelief of Bigfoot on Life Support issues. These might include breading numbers, climate conditions, and so on. I do know unlike bears we don't have regular reports of Bigfoot in the trash, but we do bears. I haven't watched Diane Fosse stuff for a long time, but it seems to be she said the big Gorillas sleep most of the 24 cycle away. That would allow a few less calories than if they we massively active. I'll assume it the same for Bigfoot and assume the calorie needs are similar. The source of those calories has to come from the environment Bigfoot finds itself in. Knowing the animal = an understanding it to encounter it or even trap the animal. We just don't know enough about Bigfoot to know for sure. It seems the only Life Support thing we can say is -like all creatures- Bigfoot needs enough food to survive and thrive.

Published in The Kane (PA) Republican on July 17, 1923.

In my old age, brittle and not so supple anymore, it's become a ever-more-difficult chore!

It's not so crazy. We've come to know you as a very deeply thoughtful and curious guy. In fact, you infect me with such thoughts. Now I'm wondering how our more wild and primitive homo sapien cousins did it. I occasionally keep goats and sheep on my property which is forested, not rocky. Consequently, their hooves need occasional trimming because the rocks don't do it for them like their wild cousins on cliffs.

Just a crazy thought that jumped in my head when I was trimming my dog's nails. :-)

Regarding movements and routes, I've always been impressed by Paul Freeman's map of trackways he found and documented. He was good enough with it to plot potential habituation sites, which led to his 1994 film at Deduct Springs. Have any of you guys been able to see that map or talk to its current owner? (No, I don't know who that is). The beauty of his map and efforts was that he focused his decades long effort on a particular mountain range. This is what enabled him to create such a documented map. I hope somebody was able to pick up on that and carry forward with it..............

How do gorillas, chimps, orange, monkeys, etc trim their finger and toe nails?

Published in the Daily Drovers Journal-Stockman, of South Omaha, Nebraska, on March 20, 1923. Two days after this article was published, a local paper suggested that the ape-man had been scared off by headlines and police officers posing as women to capture it. A month later, papers around the country noted that attacks were still occurring, such as this item from The Florence (AL) Herald on April 20, 1923.

I think that is a part of the picture, maybe all of it depending on locale. My own area is very seasonal .. main time, late summer, with a couple data points in mid July which could be outliers or could represent a second, smaller, pass-through. Behavior is pretty different up there when it is "busy" and I suspect there is something "special" going on. That area spends winter under 5-10 feet of snow with nothing to eat but snow and tree bark. They are elsewhere. A friend works on a ranch at the bottom of a deep valley in the other direction. Off and on snow but nothing seasonal .. and no downhill for food to migrate way towards. He says they have low level activity year around with occasional flurries of greater activity. His explanation is that there is a very small permanent population (seemingly akin to what you describe) which act as a "rear guard" making sure that that spot is safe for the traveling groups to temporarily occupy as they pass through. I've followed up on a number of reports there and out maybe 10 miles in each way. I can't say that the explanation is right or wrong but I can say it certainly seems to fit the observations.

Okay, presumably human. But check out the description of the drawing on the note. Published in The Galveston (TX) Daily News on September 16, 1920. Also, there was a longshoreman's strike in Galveston in 1920 and the governor declared martial law, hence the mentions of military police.

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With big clippers.

Agreed. Any movement of the needle anywhere could be a boon for us. I was super impressed with that 3d scan he did.

I would suggest a home range model with a nomadic cycle of following resources completely every 2 to 3 weeks ( obviously deviating enough down from lasting snow ) along box-canyons and or benches that follow streams and smaller river pathways. This area would be chosen based on the ability to remain hidden, thermoregulation and browsing/hunting along the way. My data indicates constant movement cycle within a territory, they seem to hang in an area for not much longer than 3 or 4 days ( there have been certain months in certain areas that are exception ) and they basically travel for a day to another resource area along a known routine and hang out for a few days and so on, eventually they follow this general path all the way back around to the starting line and repeat but constantly flexing the path ( within 1 or 2 miles of bandwidth outside of direction of intended travel ) according to need or human activity. This model prevents patterning by prey and humans, prevents over browsing and resource devastation, explains the indifference and frequency of road crossing reports and provides a schedule that allows for gauging future resources to avoid scarcity periods. I plan on doing a thread thoroughly explaining it all in-depth in the near future.

With the discovery Homo floresiensis twenty years ago, the logical connection to Orang Pendak is intriguing. Sightings continue to occur. If verification of Pendak were confirmed, it's difficult to imagine the ensuing uproar and pandemonium in the scientific community. Such a discovery could spur funding for further research into a possible N American great ape candidate.

I have not read all the posts up to this point but I think it is difficult to calculate pounds of material because the caloric density per gram can vary greatly. We also can't measure metabolic rate with Sasquatches necessarily as what you eat at what time can change the rate itself. In mammals the metabolic rate is effected by sun exposure, temperature, stress and sleep. Sasquatches do not seem to be pot-bellied ( fermentation gut adapted ) and seem to consume a lot of direct protein when compared to gorillas. I would say that they focus on nutrient dense food heavily in the fall and again in the spring, sources heavily would lean toward insects, small critters, nuts, tubers, salmon, ungulates, fruits, lichens, mushrooms and softer plant leaf material. Just a side note, I am very convinced that omegas are likely the most important need to the Sasquatch, big brains demand them and this would explain the continued historic references in native cultures that sasquatch can become fairly confrontational in situations such as pulling salmon nets and invading smoke houses. I have also noted that Sasquatch reports do often happen on a regular basis close to large tracts of masting nut trees. I suspect they target certain foods at certain times and try to conserve energy, the few long trackways on record seem to indicate very focused directional travel as if they have a point B in mind. If I had to guess with what little I know from reading, behavior and looking for feeding sites I would say someplace between 7500 to 1000 calories split between 30% fat, 30% carbs, and 40% protein averaged across the year cycle. That is my 2 cents and again I don't have a whole lot of confidence yet in my view here but it is where I am at, critics are welcome. It would be interesting to see what the metabolic consumption of the Chinese snub nosed monkey is throughout the year as a comparison as they have a wide range diet and endure some fairly cold conditions following the snowline.

Calorie intake must be on par with that of a similar size gorilla. BTW how does Bigfoot trim his toenails ?

Published in The Houston (TX) Post on September 14, 1920. Bases on this story, it's unclear why the moniker "ape-man" was applied to this (presumed) human criminal.

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WELCOME TO THE FORUM AND MELLOW OUT........WE CAN ACCEPT YOU THEN. WE ARE BIGFOOTERS SO LIGHTEN UP ON THE POLICE AND ATTORNEY EXPERIENCE.And? What's your point? If you read what I wrote, you would also see that I LEOs in my statement. I speak from experience as a 27 year police veteran and actual shooter with over 30 years in USPSA, IDPA, ISPC, 3Gun, and PPC. Armorer, custom gun builder and trainer at not one, but two academies. So, I am not speaking from inexperience or ignorance. BUT YOU ARE TURNING OFF YOUR AUDIENCE BY BEING OVER BERING.........SETTLE DOWN AND WE WILL LISTEN TO YOUR KNOWLEDGE. GET SOME LORAZAPAMS BY PERSCRIPTION. Yay, you got to put your two cents in. Add another five bucks and you can get yourself a latte...but the fact remains that the extreme vast majority of gun owners are woefully ignorant of their safe handling, let alone competent to mount a defense in a dynamic critical incident. AGREED I am 110% PRO 2A and don't even believe any state or municipality has the authority to regulate ownership or carry...in a free society the burden lies on the citizen, but the fact remains that people simply make the choice NOT to get training, choose NOT to practice what they learned in training, and make the choice NOT to gain any level of competence. THE AVERAGE PERSON SHOULD BE PROFICIENT WITH A 38 REVOLVER TO PROTECT THE HOME. I WENT THROUGH MARINE CORPS TRAINING BY RETURNING BY COMBAT HARDENED MARINES. REWRITE THIS PARAGRAPH IN A LESS CONDENSENDING MANNER. How many post critical incident videos have you had to professionally evaluate for either prosecution or defense? How many dynamic critical incidents have YOU been involved in? RATHER THAN PUTTING THE MAN DOWN........................... TELL US OF THE "DYNAMIC CRITICAL INCIDENTS" THAT YOU HAVE BEEN IN. WE CAN ALL LEARN THEN. How many times have you had to sit through tens of dozens of hours of post critical incident testimony or deposition? How many times have you sat in a courtroom as an expert witness, or as a consulting attorney for other attorneys in self defense cases? GIVE EXAMPLES And finally, how many books have YOU written on self defense law, techniques, and post critical incident survival that have been court recognized and accepted? (For me, so far it's TWO of those). How many CLEs (Continuing Legal Education) have YOU written and delivered to other attorneys after you retired from LE and went to law school? (For me....nearly a dozen written with ten times that delivered). So yay....you ran a gun shop. Good goobledy goo for you, but don't pretend doing your chicken dance from behind a retail counter and not on the range or in a courtroom and dropping a faux anecdote about poorly maintained weapons coming from LEOs is anything less than mouth waddling because of personal hubris.YOU HAVE TAUGHT LITTLE TO THOSE WHO NEED TO KNOW. THANKS FOR TRYING, MELLOW OUT, AND WHILE STEPPING WATCH FOR TOES.

Published in The Pittsburgh (PA) Post on July 25, 1920. Short article, but it describes an ape scare moving west to east in the region.