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Rob Alley of "Rain Coast Sasquatch" fame put together a nice book on BF in the Alaskan panhandle for the Colorado "Mile High Mystery Conference" this month. It is not perfect, or complete, as he was working on a tight time-line. It is a section of his big Alaska Sasquatch book which is in draft form now. The book is far from perfect, but is a valuable resource since most of the reports in it come from Native Americans and First Peoples. Rob, in addition to being an adjunct professor at the University of Alaska, Ketchikan, was a physical therapist who traveled the islands developing strong ties to the local, normally "not speaking" communities. Early stage wraps {i.e. not polished} 154 pages, B&W, color wraps: Maps, lots of maps. Photographs. Many drawings. For once, a nice tight conclusion. The usual: Bibliography of books Rob respects, and a thorough index. Signed and numbered: I have #102 and #103 of 105 printed here. $17.95 shipped Media Mail in the USA. Please email me: PayPal or money order / bank check preferred. joebeelart@comcast.net

They can unscrew the lid on a bait jar that is in a crab pot. I can't remember the location or year, but an aquarium was having fish thefts. Cameras were installed and the culprit was an octopus. It would wait until all the humans were gone and slither out of its tank and hit the 'fish tank buffett'. Slither back to its tank before the humans returned. Puny humans needed weapons to hunt during their carrion eater existence phase. There is a safety factor in putting some distance between puny slow humans and large dangerous animals. Blunt weapons and pointy weapons evolved. With weapon / tool development comes the never ending search for better handles, better points and fabrication methods. Humans started carrying around extra baggage to support their tools. We still carry extra baggage around. Sasquatch hunts point blank. Projectile hurling, when used, is of as found objects. They do not need to carry around extra baggage except for those Texas beasts who carry around the peanut butter jars and lids from BigTex.

I love Bob Gymlan's thoughts on this. This one addresses the topic of multiple bipedal hominids.

Theres a degree to which you can do that, my experience taught me when they want you to leave, they'll follow you for a bit to be sure you do. Not sure how grumpy they'd get if you play games.