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Well in my experience you have a good point. I think they have two modes of travel. 1. Silent and stealthy when they know humans are around and 2. who cares who hears them because they think humans are not around. I have experienced both modes. When interacting with them a number of times and they know I am present, the only way I can get them to make noise when they move, is force them to move away by closing on them. Even then it is low thuds right at the lower limit of my hearing as I think they move from tree to tree maintaining cover and trying to keep out of my sight. I have been flanked and had one approach while I was forcing one to move by closing on it and never heard the one that had moved behind me, until it chose to break off a small tree or large branch to scare me. Just the fact that it was capable of that scared me more than the growl I got from the one in front of me. I have no illusions, it could not have moved in quickly behind me and got to a lethal distance before I knew it was there. I only heard it because it wanted me to so I would back away from the one in front of me. The encounter (my first) where I am pretty sure they did not know I was there, one was moving rabidly through dense forest with another, and making a lot of noise breaking down wood and as it got closer I heard heavy footfalls. 10 miles from the nearest human they are probably very noisy as they move, because they can move a lot quicker that way. For sure I cannot move as quietly as ones have around me. They have the stride length to carefully place each foot and avoid breaking dry wood. Also they can and do drop into quadrupedal mode and can move quite rapidly that way. Humans who have not spent years hunting or in the military cannot have developed skills like that. Certainly the radius where I can place a foot is a lot smaller than they have. Many down trees require me, in spite of fairly long legs, to crawl over or under them. An 8 to 9 foot BF could just step over them. While juveniles are often reported running, I really do not think that adults feel the need to do that. They can walk, faster than most of us can run. Most of us are not crazy enough to try to follow (I guess I must be). Certainly they can navigate heavily forested ground, faster than most humans can. It just dawned on me that the ones I was interacting with may have stopped that, because they thought I was nuts. Who in their right mind would try to corner a BF? I guess I have to admit to that. (Ice cream cone on the forehead moment). They got nasty after that growl encounter. Hmmmmm!

If we are calling kettles black, I'd have to say I'm getting tired of your idiotic nonsense. Is that black enough for you? I'm getting tired of your entitled attitude. You're not doing anything to resolve the problem, you're trying to manipulate others into doing the hard work, taking the risks, and taking on the expenses while you sit on the sidelines and get your itch scratched at their expense. We had a retired union organizer here for a while trying to do the same thing. I knew him from another forum where he tried that there. Now you're doing the same thing. The simple fact is if I had evidence of adequate quality to warrant the expense of testing, I wouldn't have any trouble getting it tested. Do your homework. Get out of your mommy's basement and off the couch. If you want it done, do it yourself. MIB

Sheri, you're not kidding! During my up close - accidental - encounter, this thing was (I hate to call it running, exactly) coming mighty fast in more of a crossing of the mountain slope, and I never heard anything. I was getting growled at real loud by what I assume was another one from the nearby cluster of trees, but for something that big to cover that much ground, and never make a sound - in reflection - was quite a feat. A week or so later, the team member that I had dropped off when all this happened, found another "sweet spot" with bars - and he went up the first switchback to again, call home. He came fogging it back down mighty quick, as he'd seen another. This was a bit different. There was an open area much like a meadow, and he said as he was talking with his back to the meadow, he heard heavy "thumps" and spun around to see what it was. He was shocked to see this thing shooting uphill in the meadow. He said, "You remember that scene in Jurassic Park, where the puddle of water showed the vibrations, and then the deep thumps as the T. Rex approached? That was what it was like." He wondered where it came from, as this was open ground, with only grasses and mountain flowers in the meadow. I told him that as he approached on the ATV, the thing flattened out in the field. Only after he turned his back on it, did this critter feel it was time to clear out of there. The flowers and grasses were not even knee-tall. And he wasn't looking for anything in the flowers and grasses - just a casual visual scan. Combine that ability with their natural "ghillie suit," and folks are just not going to see them. Most everyone's looking for an upright critter. No telling how many times I've been out in the wild and had one real close and never even thought about one - and it remained undetected. If you're out looking for six-foot, blue tinted, green-eyed men who wear turpentine-soaked rags around their ankles, shave their heads, and wear purple hats - if you don't see these blue tinted, green-eyed men with turpentine rags, shaved heads with purple hats - that you're expecting - you won't see them. They seem to make noise only when they want to - from everyone I've talked to, and from the hundreds and hundreds of narratives I've read. Good observation!

#Sasquatch - Interesting to note that after establishing last year that all 9 reports in the database from AZ in the month of August from the last 10 years originate in Coconino County, we find that overall the County represents 40% of all AZ reports (15 total counties in the State) and is also the County that receives the most precipitation throughout the course of a year. Coconino County is home to both the Coconino National Forest and the Kaibab National Forest,in which we have reports recorded from both the North (which includes the Grand Canyon Forest Preserve) and Southern parts of the Kaibab. It should also be note that the Northern Part of the Kaibab National Forest also receives over 20 inches of rain per year on average, and over 100 inches of snow too. ----- #Sasquatch #Texas - Is there any love out there for Texas, and specifically a little pocket of Texas down near Houston that go by the names of Liberty, Polk, Tyler, Houston, Montgomery, San Jacinto and Walker Counties ? Combining these seven East Texas Counties, we have a total of 65 reports now locked and loaded in the database. Here's some numbers on them below. 17% of all reports come in hours of darkness. 68% of all reports come from nights where the moon is visible, with the Waxing Gibbous and Full Moon Phases making up 58% of those alone. Reports are pretty much spread well across the seasons but Spring leads the way making up 29% of all reports, with every single night report in Spring coming when the moon is visible. 60% of all reports are actual visual sightings. 55% of those reports come on nights when the moon is NOT visible, which includes all night sightings in the past 12 years.

What a cutie, is she about the same age as the other pup? My dogs have given me that frantic cry/howl before. Like they don't know what it is that they smell. That caused me to check on possible bear activity in my neighborhood. Which it could have been, one waking up a little too early, looking for whatever food they could scrounge. But then I started finding tracks (not bear) and hearing wild screams etc. Yesterday, I was out at night doing the last feeding of the day, and my german shephard rushed in front of me, and blocked my legs from any forward progress. He kind of whined a little, and I noticed all the horses were facing the woods, and being very quiet. I didn't know what to make of that, just got done fast, and went back inside.

I cleaned it up a little bit... and replotted from 1970 to 2016. The data supports my hypothesis, BF is gone/going extinct. The decrease could be the breakup of the BFRO in the late 2000's. They lost a lot of high quality researchers and maybe they just don't process as many reports anymore. Also, I've noticed there is a delay between the sighting date and when the witness reports it. Most are not reported until a few years later. I think that's PTSD or something similar. Interesting to see a small bubble from 1973 to 1981... old timers may be able to explain it (Swamp Thing, Chewbacca?)