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hiflier, you are absolutely correct. I have a mental stumbling block. Just my personal opinion of course, and I haven't done a lot of soul-searching as maybe you have, but I think we'll find these things to be somewhere biologically between a man and an ape. Advanced species of higher ape, or primitive species of man. I think maybe they don't use fire nor come up with a wheel because they have no need for either one. Most places and terrains these things spend their time - a wheel would be of no benefit. Fire? Maybe they don't need that, either. One thing humans can't do is consume cellulose. Cows can. Termites can. Deer can. Other animals can consume cellulose and break it down to glucose because they have the enzymes that can do that, but we humans don't have the required enzymes to break cellulose down into glucose. Maybe BF has these enzymes - and can find nutrition in plants we can't. Enabling them to eat anywhere and everywhere. Maybe their digestion system is different from ours, and thus they don't have the same need for fire we do. They have longer body hair than we do, and maybe they have a different insulation layer in their bodies that we don't have - ensuring they are better able to conserve body temperature without the need for fire. Maybe they hole up in hand-built wikiups or caves, and that's sufficient to protect them from temperature extremes. I don't know any of this stuff - pure speculation on my part.

I have no doubt you saw something. It could be imagined, mistaken or hoaxed. That certainly does not make it a Sasquatch type creature. We must continue the search until a real specimen is collected and examined. Otherwise it is all folklore and conjecture.

Narratives, including narratives personally told to me, indicate clearly they have tactical excellence in their family/clan groups. That is indicative of a reasonable amount of intelligence. Other narratives, indicate they are aware of what would happen if they began killing humans wholesale. We have narratives of past fights between these things and humans, and clearly, while BF has had some victories and has lots of nocturnally superior abilities, humans once they feel really threatened, will hunt an opponent almost to extinction - at least in their own backyard. It may be a bit of genetic memory as well. But for whatever reason, they elect to not embrace a general confrontational mindset - something that to me indicates a bit of prudent reasoning. And THEN, with scores, and hundreds of endeavors to look for them and plant hundreds of trail cameras, they seem to be able to avoid the traps and drives of a supposed "superior mind." In truth, most BF hunters have no idea what they're up against, much less how to succeed. And that's proven every day that passes.