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Rod cells react to low light. Cone cells react to color. You have a fixed percentage of each. It is either one or the other. However, big eyes mean more cells. Not sure if this clarifies things but if you read a few hundred reports you easily come to the conclusion they have superior night vision.

Anecdotal evidence indicates that they can see at least somewhat into the infrared spectrum. Humans can see some of the lower IR frequencies to some extent, at least the glow of IR led's used with security cameras (typically around the 800 nm range if memory serves). Brian Brown reported that after they installed the video surveillance system around their cabins in "X", leaving the cameras on at night would guarantee that they could get some sleep. Another report, possibly related to the Honobia, OK incidents, had them marking the illumination limits of security cameras installed around a home, using sticks or similar found objects.

Yesterday I saw a guy with his pick up towing a small pop up camper and a dirt bike in his bed, I thought that would be a perfect rig to go and do some research somewhere motorized bikes are permitted. Sounds like you guys have some sort of rigs, just curious what type of equipment anyone recommends for either long term excursions or short term. I have done some tent camping in the Boundary Water Wilderness Area bordering Ontario/Minnesota, and that always was a very satisfying experience. Usually it was hard to return to suburban Chicago with it's hustle and bustle, literally I would be on a totally different wave length, but one I certainly enjoyed. Tragic thing is that the repose that nature teaches us, most likely our natural estate, is quickly lost when forced to race around meeting our modern day demanding lifestyle. Everyone needs to get off the grid and soak up some solitude. It is a key to knowing who you are and what your purpose is in this world. I highly recommend it. One such night, I was the only person fishing for walleye on opening day, Memorial day, water temp 45 degrees, it was midnight, the northern lights ablaze, stars so dense that they blurred together, and I caught a large walleye on almost every cast and had my limit in about 1/2 hour, only because it took a while to get them on the stringer as I was standing on a rock at the base of some rapids that dumped into a beautiful serene series of pools surrounded by Canadian shield bluff formations rising 30 to 40 feet above. Times and places like that get etched into your mind.

I truly don't know the answer to your questions. I think Glickman got approx $400k to study the film. That's a lot of cheddar no matter how you break it down.

Footprint reports, vocalizations, close encounter vocalizatioss, bipedal footsteps through heavy undergrowth approaching, great thud, rapid warning knocks, growl, and the apparently uninteresting fact I got a picture of a juvenile BF. Not all in one encounter but not interesting enough to investigate or be entered into the BFRO data base. But now that I have been critical of the organization I am probably on some bad person list.