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Native Americans, not to mention ancient peoples in Eurasia, might take offense, since they've had possibly hundreds of descriptive proper names for them for millennia. Don't forget most white folks in North America just caught on in the last several decades. Others knew and named them before, it just wasn't news.

New here, just learned about this forum. I'm a somewhat average guy from New England, with a lot of reading and random knowledge under my belt... Honestly up until a few years ago I mostly dismissed the idea of bigfoot, but it was never anything I looked into or studied. Then I came across info about the BFRO, and realized these things have been seen by way more people than I realized. I've also heard, right in back of my house, a call that sounds just like many of the clips one can find on YouTube. So this definitely gave me pause to reconsider. (And when you hear that call in person, it's not something you'll ever forget. lol) I hope to find some good info here...

I will have to brush up on my science, but if memory serves warm blooded animals cannot see in infrared. The seeing and smelling of the cameras make more sense. However, there is something to the accounts of people ringing their property with it cams and moving the creature’s activity back. Like most other things on this field, it’s a mystery.

At times I really do love this weird, mysterious, always surprising world. I think I’ll just see how long I can hang down amongst us, just to see what happens next. 😁

As usual, you are correct. Very few animals can see in the IR spectrum. Mainly snakes, fish, amphibs, and a few insects. Very small number. I doubt it is IR if BF is based on earth-bound evolution. One of my shepherds has a fear of our home stereo. All I have to do is turn it on and somehow he senses it and runs from the room. I have tested him with it a couple of times and have yet to figure out how he knows it is being turned on. Not sure if he senses the EM or maybe hears the circuits warm up but he notices something that we cannot as soon as it turns on. He can be lying down with eyes closed and he will notice and bolt.