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I'll add another layer of complexity to this. If Bigfoot are a real species, they could exist as a meta-population.    As a meta-population they live in small, mostly isolated groups distributed over patches of forest areas. These groups are highly mobile, moving among these forest patches (across hundreds of miles) and occasionally running into other groups for breeding. In the case of Bigfoot, they may even exchange information in some way — for example, avoid that forest to the south because deer are sick or the water is bad or the BFRO is there or whatever. This isn't a new theory. I got the idea from a 2006 article on the Indian Gray Wolf, but the concept is frequently employed in ecology.    Meta-population view of Bigfoot would explain:  Sightings in non-remote places and roadsides Low inbreeding despite living in small groups Sightings in areas that may lack sufficient resources to survive over long periods Bigfoot sometimes reported taking farm animals (as they move between habitats) Overestimation of pop size, as the same animal is witnessed in widely different places near the same time Not seeing a Bigfoot when visiting a place where one or more were recently witnessed A meta-population of Bigfoot will likely be affected by the USDA removing 112 million acres of forests… which is equivalent to 175,000 sq miles, which is more than the size of California. Certainly this would not happen in one place, but it's likely that each forest management area will be reduced significantly enough to affect wildlife cover and food sources. I doubt this would be a thinning out of a forest, because that’s just not cost effective. It’ll be large swaths of biodiverse forest areas, and replanting will either not happen or will lack in plant diversity and become dead spots for wildlife. I’m not a hunter or camper but this is my main concern about this USDA initiative. Maybe someone with forest experience on BFF has a more optimistic assessment and can relieve my anxiety (or link me to a post in that other thread).    Oh, and for any conspiracy theorists, perhaps the national forest system was created originally to support a meta-population of Bigfoot. An argument could be made, actually. 

Modern Homo sapien cannibalism is a well studied phenomenon, even if those studies are often ignored and played down because it's such a taboo topic. And example would be cannibalism among Japanese soldiers in the Pacific Theater of WWII. The point here is that in modern cases of cannibalism, many feature spiritual motivations where the eater is trying to consume the spirit or power of the meal. The modern cases involving starvation tend to be situations like the one in your posted photo of the crashed airplane in South America or shipwrecked people floating for weeks at sea. We don't see communities doing this because we now have communications and social assistance programs, but that really has a relatively short, weak history. Even Alaska, a U.S. state for the past 65 years, has a history within living memory of community starvation and disease.   While I believe sasquatches are a human species, I have a difficult time accepting that they've become spiritual or religious. Homo sapien bodies are meat. But I do believe that they understand that killing people bring more people looking for the missing. This is likely because it's a long pattern with indigenous men. I don't think sasquatches hunt men for that very reason.

There are gruesome reports of chimpanzees abducting and consuming human children in various parts of Africa. I chose to not include links, due to their grisly nature, but they're readily available. 

The Starving Bigfoot?    I can’t think of a scenario where Bigfoot would be in a position where its normal food supply was absent.   Then if so, that same Bigfoot would need to come upon a human, have cause to kill it, and then eat it.   Sure I can see a Bigfoot or about any animal attacking in certain situations. ( protecting their young,, during mating season if one exists).   Apart from that, I cant see Bigfoot taking that extra leap and eating a person.      Starving  people and animals will eventually try to eat anything.   But that would require Bigfoot being so devoid of other food sources, so limited on mobility, and a human coming right in to their radius.  That’s a lot of IFs happening to a near extinct animal.        Are there common cases of known primates eating people?    Attacking people for various motivations, yes.   But eating them?      if someone is lost in the woods and is killed or eaten it would be done by the more common animals in the woods.  If there was Bigfoot out there Bigfoot would more likely eat what’s available including many other insects or squirrels or berries or whatever.  If injury made this impossible it would be too injured to chase down and kill a person.     Even if I was killed for stumbling across Bigfoot in the woods, Bigfoot would leave me there dead.  Within days other animals would work on the body and Bigfoot would be miles away moving on to Bigfoot things.  Sure I was killed in the woods by something.  But I was not eaten by Bigfoot.   .  

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