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Took a run up on the ranch this afternoon. 1) Stotting deer tracks 2) Helping out the local wildlife with 2 round bales of grass- alfalfa mix. And some corn molasses blocks. 3) Wyatts grinding job in winter. Looks nice. 4) Columbia river

I think it's both, but it has to be instinct at a base level. Otherwise they'd screw up more if it was due to occassional inadequate teaching and learning. This is one of my favorite video explanations. The Case for Sasquatch - YouTube

Hiding of tracks is a behavior trait created to explain no tracks, the skookum print is obviously an elk lay.

Sorry there is no Bigfoot history, just cool stories and yes I've read many cool stories with nothing that would indicate that anything like a giant monkey man running around anywhere in the US but it is fun to imagine. Still not following your cougar hunt analogy, unless of course your suggesting its easy to produce a Bigfoot if they are everywhere...which I'd agree with completely, it should be unless of course they just don't exist. No I'm not missing the point BFRO is nothing but internet reporting of cool stories, which are most likely nothing but misidentification, fabrications ect. No its not a luck thing any animal can be patterned and harvested, you've got people and groups claiming up to ten years of Bigfoot showing up like clockwork but they can't even produce one decent pic.... you may have jumped the shark on that one Norse.

This is taken from the thread TRACKWAY FIND NEAR EUGENE OREGON, posts on June 22, 2012. I would have to read the entire thread again to say which print is in the photo:

Just for reference, this was discussed in Footprint Trackway near Eugene, Oregon back in 2012. I think some of the questions raised at that time still hold. In particular, two issues: 1- the location. There is almost no discussion as to the context of the location. Lakeside Park at Cottage Grove Lake is a very popular location with dog walkers, motor boaters, runners, cyclists, general recreation. Back in the 80's I attended triathlons that drew thousands of people to the area. Weyerhauser Road is popular as it edges the lake while vehicular traffic uses the parallel London Road as thoroughfare. The roads go dozens of miles beyond the end of the lake. I grant that in the winter months the area is less busy but do be clear, the area is a busy, heavily used location. 2-Five Finger shoes. I still think I see a Vibram label in one of the tracks.

Thanks for posting that Norseman. Interesting observations here...I guess today all content is marketed as "shocking", but hardly is this that, I don't think. We talk here a lot about how the enigma of the Squatch morphology and behavior lends itself to all kinds of speculation and (sometimes) dubious theories. I've proposed my share of those, and enjoy painting on this blank canvas as much as the next guy. With all due respect to Dr. Meldrum though, my reaction to this theory is pretty much a shrug. I mean, can you not cherry pick any characteristic of BF and draw conclusions about it being an ape, a hominid, an ape-hominid, a giant lemur, just about anything you'd care to propose? It might be some or none of those, for all we are able to say. That Patty has a passing similarity to an extinct precursor of H. sapiens (which they MIGHT be) is not much of a revelation, any more than saying a modern human has some similarities to a chimpanzee. After all, when your data set includes the criteria: Mammal, bipedal, binocular vision, opposable thumbs....the similarities are as plentiful as the differences. That this somehow moves the needle towards proof that Patty was an ape, and not a human? Not so much, for me.

Just like Elbe its a hoax....next?