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seems like an easy way to score a quick meal..... lure scoobie out with a bark / howl then "crunch" = scoobie snacks for BF

I wouldn't call anyone out for not answering a question if I were you. Pot, kettle, all that ya' know.

It's clear that folks CAN call 911 and report a sassy sighting. Calls are taken seriously, trained personnel are dispatched, and serious investigations are conducted almost immediately after the sighting and sometimes while the creature is still in the area. No one who has put any serious time into reading reports doubts this and excuses like the call won't be taken seriously or that people aren't calling due to concerns about insurance coverage can't stand. What hasn't been demonstrated is that an immediate response from police or park rangers will necessarily corroborate a call. If trained personnel familiar with the area aren't able to find evidence of sassy, such as in the 911 call Norse posted or if they actually conclude that a known animal was responsible for the sighting after seeing the creature (as in the Arundel Mills report you posted - http://userpages.umbc.edu/~frizzell/Reports/PoliceRPT_2adj.jpg) how much stock can we put into a standard BFRO report conducted weeks or even years later?

Randy....yeah, I'm old enough (55) to remember the whole dénouement, from "4 out of 5 doctors recommend Lucky Strike…It's TOASTED!" (and so your lungs will be too), to "there is no proven link" to "Warning: Cigarettes cause cancer!" I don't mean to denigrate all of the medical profession as being complicit in that, because there are always good people and bad people in any profession, but the fact is the great majority of the scientific/medical community took a pass on looking too hard at this public health crisis, for way too long, despite lots of ordinary people knowing it was an issue that needed addressing. Once the effort could not be ignored any longer, momentum built quickly. The year I was born, 44% of Americans believed smoking caused cancer. How many years, and how many deaths resulted before the Surgeon's General joined those numbers? As Casey Stengel famously said, you can look it up. Again, I see lots of parallels between this history and what we are witnessing now. Oh, and here's just the latest example of inductive reasoning being ignored by those who should know better....the Chevy Cobalt ignition failures. I have to give a tip of the hat to my colleagues in the plaintiffs' bar for listening to their clients. Waiting on those to act who have a vested interest in staying ignorant is always a bad strategy in my book. The beat goes on...

Yeah, I would expect differences in the location of anchor points on the bones for muscles and tendons changing the leverage. Sometimes maximum strength is not the ideal, most useful option, sometimes arrangement for greater speed or endurance have survival advantages over arrangement for strength. I've read that we are one of the top 5 "critters" on the planet for endurance running. Not in our couch potato state, but in a stone age state. We're an open plains / savannah "critter." Look at our big toe arrangement, our ability to shed heat and continue doing so across mega miles, our eyesight. Turn to the big guys ... like darwin's finches, they seem adapted to avoid direct competition. They seem better suited for night time, to steep terrain, to feats of strength rather than endurance, cold weather rather than hot. In just about every way I can think of, they are nearly our opposites so far as adaptation to niches in ways that would avoid direct competition. Seems remarkable for a "made up" monster, wouldn't you say? MIB