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Thanks for that history, JKH. I couldn't agree more. This thread, and threads like it, do a grave disservice to our hairy cousins, because they appear to justify (and encourage) acts of aggression against those cousins. These threads also do a disservice to us, because they encourage us to wallow in fear. Thank you so much for speaking up!

From the evidence I've found they are very good ambush predators. From what Fararcher and WesT have found they are probably in agreement with this assessment. If a person were to be the subject of these ambush tactics, they wouldn't have a chance. Besides there are a lot of other reasons for carrying a firearm in the woods and BF isn't the only one. You can be assured if I can't back out of a bad situation, I would do the most damage I could til I'm a goner. LCB, you forgot to mention the Ape Canyon miners shooting incident which is a lot closer to home for me. In fact I was about five or six miles from there on tuesday.

I think Meldrum made the best guess he could, and has some pretty good data points to base his model on. I note that the model of the Gigantopithecus has not had a problem getting scientific support - and all they have on those is partial jaws and teeth. Or how Neanderthal looks with skin and hair on. I do note that most supposed ancestors are usually portrayed to display more human characteristics - and I wonder why that is? Will be interesting when one is taken, to find out how close he came.

If I have a body? I have a type specimen for morphology plus millions of DNA samples, its in the bag at that point.

"Meldrum went straight to the TV as he has aways done"? I have seen Meldrum give a number of presentations and none were on TV. He does a better job of keeping his conference presentations current and full of new science than anyone I know. New scientific findings about man and his ancestors are always part of it. Like it or not something like the Sasquatch Summit is a special interest science conference even though the audience is not full of PHD's. But during many of them, there are a number of PHD's in attendance, and probably more than many realize. That is not even addressing the number of scientific papers and books Meldrum has written on the topic. So books, talks, TV specials by Sagan and Hawking are somehow credible but Meldrum using the same media is to be discounted? Why because you personally do not believe in the topic? That would seem to be either ignorance about Meldrum or personal bias.