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I changed the charts to begin at 12pm (afternoon) so that nightime is in the middle, easier to read. CA-OR-WA Yearly CA-OR-WA Spring CA-OR-WA Summer CA-OR-WA Fall CA-OR-WA Winter Interesting that Florida has a very similar pattern... FL Yearly

Lots of states allow night fishing and even night bow fishing.

I have to say, IMPRESSIVE. Folks, especially new members this database is searchable with numerous descriptions and characteristics of both land and animal. For a measly $20 a year anyone can access this amazing body of work at anytime day or night and even get sightings placed onto a Google Earth Map as an overlay using the KML feature. A mountain of work has gone into this database over the span of years and what you see as graphs here in this thread is the tip of the iceberg. So do yourselves a favor, renew a membership or start one and get the information for your area and beyond right at your fingertips with links to the reports themselves that are on the BFRO. The difference is the SRR is searchable by whatever category or categories one applies. It is a remarkable tool for any and all researchers that really want to dig into this stuff

All of these are full year time of day charts for different witness activities, searching all BFRO reports in the SSR database. There will be a bump at 1pm for Bigfooting if and when my sighting report gets published. I got word the report is nearly finished... could be any day now. Camping Hunting Driving Hiking At Home Fishing Bigfooting

So....I'm thinking, after reviewing the data posted here, that I should retitle this thread: 11:00 PM Sightings. What is up with THAT ?! The numbers don't lie, although the reasons behind them could be endlessly debated. Great work y'all, and thanks so much for posting these graphs. Just shows to go you too. You can get an idea in your head based on a limited data set and only the truth that is revealed by larger sampling is likely to persuade you otherwise. Great scientific minds at work here.

In primates? You either have good night vision or you have good color vision. You dont get both. Bush babies have a tapetum lucidum. But none of the great apes exhibit a tapetum lucidum. Which is what allows certain mammals and especially predators such as canines and felines and bush babies to see very well in the dark. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tapetum_lucidum Larger eyes in Neanderthals seemed to help them cope with low light settings in Europe, but lacked a tapetum lucidum. http://www.bbc.com/earth/story/20150805-neanderthals-strange-large-eyes But that may have came at a cost as Caucasian boys have the highest prevelance of color blindness of all multi ethnic school children. As Europeans have shown some of the highest Neanderthals genes in DNA tests in the world. Up to 8%. https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/04/140403084243.htm Red eye glare is prevelent in humans when a flash from a camera strikes the retina and the red blood vessels present “shine”. But an animal like say a Cougar’s eyes which possesses a tapetum lucidum, shines a white light back to the viewer.....not red. A large “great ape” like Sasquatch that is reported to be nocturnal may be color blind. Or maybe like humans only certain amount of the male population is color blind. Combined with a larger eyeball? Could make them better at seeing in the dark than humans with color vision do. But they still will not see as well in the dark as a Cougar or a Wolf. Of course during the day time that would put them at a disadvantage. Something else I noticed hunting Coyotes all my life is that they can see a white light spotlight. But they cannot see a red lens spotlight.... as such we always bought or modified spotlights with a red lens. Ultimately its a tradeoff. It seems with modern humans the ability to distiguish colors of ripe fruit vs unripe fruit in sunny Africa far outweighed the need to see well in the dark. Unlike their Neanderthal cousins who needed to be able to hunt in low light situations in the far north. Great Ape adaptations to Earth’s latitude. But Im sure both species still fed the bellies of mega predators with much better nigh vision than either human.