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FarArcher, most people have the right side as the dominant side and going to the right means their most defensive tactics will be in place. Hold the rifle to the right then it gets swung into the fray while most of the vulnerable parts of a Human remain safe. In other words, the gun leads. and can be poked around the corner. If right handed and going left then it's too awkward to point the gun toward anything behind the obstacle. A severe if not lethal disadvantage. So.....right handedness in BF? Think about your own encounter when considering the question. I doubt they are ambidextrous. If that's is the case then the knowledge could translate into an advantage for a Human.

I believe the inability to comprehend the extent of the Sasquatch's avoidance capabilities is a failure to comprehend how extensive the changes wrought by adaptive pressures can be. In this case, I would say the adaptive pressure has always been "us." As paleontologists increasingly become aware of the numerous species of hominoids that have lived on this earth before us, the awareness of what it would take to adapt to our dominance also increases. Sasquatch may have succeeded as a species where so many others had failed. Namely, to avoid the murderous intent of the little pink monkeys with the projectiles and complex social and language structures that make us such efficient killing machines. It is not yet known how many other hominoid species took the alternate tack of going toe-to-toe with us and getting completely extinguished. Sasquatch may just be the one who hit on the lone adaptive strategy that allowed it to survive, and that was to just avoid us at all costs, by all methods possible. It may now be hard-wired through natural selection of those genetic tendencies, and would have been this way for millennia.

When I first realized that they are here, it was the night before my birthday in May of 2005. They were obviously around for a couple of weeks, then the "obviousness" stopped & they appeared to be gone until just before Thanksgiving that fall. There was quite a bit of activity for the next 3 or 4 months, then it got quiet again. By that time, I had the bionic ear & was listening to them every night. At some point, I noticed that when the winter noises stopped, there were suddenly several new spring noises. After a while I realized that they aren't changing locations. They're just changing the noises that they make to fit the seasons.

I agree with most of what you said. This seems like an opening for tossing out a followup thought .. This part has interesting implications. Unless the behavior is rooted in their DNA, this presents a puzzle. It's not just one bigfoot, or bigfoot in one area, that avoid us, it's ALL of them ... at least avoiding us to the degree they manage not to have good pictures taken or verifiable physical remains retrieved. If it's not hard-wired in the DNA it implies group planning and, to facilitate that, a symbolic language, not just grunts and hoots, as well as a communication means. Otherwise some remote bigfoot wouldn't get the message about avoiding us and would just walk into a hiker's camp to share a granola bar. Yeah, there are habituators who claim to have contact, frequent sightings, etc, but the details of those situations suggest a situation of **unlearned** behavior ... inherent conditioning being overcome, not avoidance conditioning that didn't happen. We can't answer the question, we simply don't know, but whichever the answers is, it could well play into why we can't get that evidence. Again .. tactics. You seldom win a battle of wits with an opponent you underestimate. We keep losing. I think that says something. MIB

And also, many of we humans aren't as smart as we think. Our ability to transfer knowledge, information ,and, god help us, wisdom, through technological means and devices has pushed us forward to this point, and will soon take us further, perhaps, but there is the flip side for if/when the lights go out not only will we be diurnal, but we'll be hating the fact that the kids burned all the books for heat not realizing what they were, and now we have only what's in our heads to keep us alive, and what we might write down, which could, assuming enough of the next generation can read, begin the information accumulation again.

I don't make any assumptions about cranial size one way or the other. I do know they have bigger punkins than humans - but how much of that is allocated to the brain by comparison is beyond me. I know their eyes are much larger than ours, and a lot higher on the head that our eyes, but I don't know how that would affect brain cavity size. I know they're not technologically oriented as humans are, but they seem to have developed the predatory survival skills honed to a fine practice - much, much more advanced than humans. They seem to excel in the very terrains humans find most difficult to traverse. They are apparently their most capable by being highly crepuscular and nocturnal, though they can also do quite well during daylight hours. We're only a couple hundred years removed from being diurnal. Our inventions of electrical and chemical lighting enable us limited nighttime activities, but if the electric goes out, we go back to being primitive diurnal creatures. I feel the intelligence is not quite as developed as full humans in all aspects, but then again, I see a lot of humans that I am astounded they can walk and chew bubblegum at the same time. BF's have tactical excellence and seem to work well together - something not many humans can do. Their lifestyle doesn't require them an alphabet, and they seem to have little need for highly developed weapons - as they apparently have skills humans could only dream of. One being - avoiding the highly intelligent humans hunting them. As though human field skills and capabilities are anywhere near theirs. Especially at night.