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I'm not comfortable with that. It's hard to put my finger on, but it misses something critical. It is somehow wrapped up in the idea that for such absolute avoidance to be the rule, we'd have to be reinforcing the need via deliberate, organized action, not the incidental act of a few bozos taking pot shots. Anything that big, that organized, we'd know we were doing it. We don't. So .. we aren't. I have to conclude the answer lies elsewhere. Not sure where, but not there. MIB

7.62, your confident assertion is not correct but that can be expected since perhaps you are unfamiliar with the investigators. Neither Burnette nor Riggs are/were stupid individuals or hoaxers. Mr. Burnette is a rural man for sure (see clip below and you can find his books quite cheap at the usual places). If a black bear appeared in front of them with its behind to the camera it is a no brainer they would be able to identify it as most of us would. An inexperienced witness in the forest thinks a bigfoot is a bear but let's be honest, the photo is inconclusive. Honestly, that was the first color shot I have seen of that angle. The only other photo I have seen is in the b/w book and the color image certainly does look like a hunched over normal animal. However, put into context, it is not a bear. I won't go into the storyline as that would spoil the experience for intrepid researchers who look a little deeper. https://www.houstoniamag.com/articles/2014/4/30/bigfoot-hiding-big-thicket-east-texas-may-2014 and apologies for inadvertently throwing this into the wrong thread. My memory of the photo was a bit off and does not appear to be bunched up creatures. That shot seems to be just one.

Could it be that a species that has had to avoid us or our ancestors for 20,000 or 30,000 years to avoid being killed has learned a lot from the experience? It seems that their prime directive is avoid human contact. We are certainly more frightening to them with firearms than we were before with spears and arrows. I get the felling that NA had more contact than we of European descent. We showed up totting firearms and shot anything that scared us. Certainly the diseases we brought must have decimated their population just like the NA. .

There could be more to it, but our arrogance is adequate. We simply cannot get our collective heads around the idea that something could be outsmarting us. As long as we insist on underestimating what they can do, or overestimating our own superiority, we doom ourselves to failure except by sheer accident. I'm less and less convinced of the "woo" all the time as I learn more and understand more about what is possible with normal biology combined with intelligence and innate paranoia. It seems weird to me that even the people who say "yep" to that and nod wisely turn right around and ignore what they just agreed to when it comes time to put boots to the ground. I don't get that. MIB