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We shouldn't rule out a lifetime of learned behavior either. If they tried something once they may remember and try it again. Simply discarding the possibility that they could occasionally be ambush predators also throws out a lot of related evidence that goes along with it.

Don’t take it personally – we are all prone to confirmation bias (myself included). There is no reason to question your sincerity but there is every reason to question the accuracy of your claims. How, for instance, do you hear sounds below what is humanly audible let alone determine its source? Perhaps you are attributing particular feelings/sensations to infrasound and then attributing that to Bigfoot which is a fine example of a double-barrelled confirmation bias… But perhaps not. The bias, in this example, may be all mine. After all, you do also claim to have objective evidence to support your position in the form of a picture of Bigfoot taken after it had been whooping for several minutes. So, yes, I would like to see your picture. May I, please? I am confronting my bias head-on by requesting to see your evidence – it could be a game-changer for me… The question is: Would the picture support your position (ie Bigfoot is real – here it is!) or mine (ie that you sincerely but inaccurately believe that your picture shows Bigfoot but without actually doing so)? If the picture is not as you claim then would it not be fair to question the accuracy of your other claims (ie those claims without any supporting evidence whatsoever)? If you are not ready to confront your own bias or to challenge the accuracy of your own perceptions/cognitions/memories then perhaps it would be best for you NOT to share your Bigfoot picture. The mystery of Bigfoot is always better than the reality… Don't take it personally?. You sound just like my neighbor when I told him that I had found and documented a bigfoot footprint. He basically said since BF does not exist, perhaps it was not a footprint but some sort of natural formation that just happened to look like a 20 inch footprint. In other words I am not capable of determining if something is a footprint or not. Perhaps you have a Masters Degree in biology like he does?. Interestingly he never asked to see the evidence I had, only that since science did not accept the existence of bigfoot, therefore bigfoot does not exist and I must be mistaken. That thought process sounds like our resident skeptics. I have known the man for years and he has trusted his life to me flying. But he cannot accept my judgement that something is a footprint, much less a bigfoot footprint. I would say that he exhibits a form of bias similar to your own. I was upset with him and told him so. He apologized but only made it worse. Basically his apology was such that someone had to conclude I was delusional or just plain nuts to conclude that I had found a BF footprint because he refused to allow the possibility that I might be correct. I have never brought up the subject again even though I have found several more footprints and had several encounters including the one where I got the photograph. As I have explained before to the forum I will not publish the photograph on line. I have nearly enough material for a book, and I do not want my photographs, especially that one, in the public domain. Other authors have advised me to hold it back so I do not have copyright issues with someone that claims the photograph as their own after a book is published. If it has never been published before the book, they cannot have a copy preexisting the book. It is also in still in the camera and will remain there until the book, if any, is published. I have shown it to several people including some of our famous PHD's at conferences. I will show it to anyone that asks but in the form of an 8/10 that never leaves my hands. No it does not provide proof of BF. No picture does or ever will. As a matter of fact since it is a small juvenile, one could conclude that it is some African or South American ape and I took the picture in some jungle. I haver been to Africa or South America so while it may not be photographic evidence of bigfoot, it is photographic evidence of a wild ape living in the Pacific Northwest that was being carried by something massive that approached me. Finally, proof or not, you skeptics, as many of us know, are dead wrong. We have many witnesses on the forum who know without doubt that bigfoot exists. Providing proof of that is the hard part. Only a body on a lab table or a live bigfoot in captivity will prove it at this point. So personally I am not going to jump through skeptics hoops in a vain attempt to furnish evidence on demand when only that body will provide any acceptable proof. You all know it but continue to imply that evidence held back is something fabricated or the result of "confirmation bias" on my part.

Get real, Jay. If you really believe that Ray had multiple pictures showing a 900lb sasquatch bleeding from a flank wound inflicted by an elk during their knock-down, drag-out fight, as well as a bigfoot bite-mark riddled elk hide, and then did not share them, then I've got some nice swampland in Death Valley for sale.