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Interesting stuff, to be sure. Most of us would hold a little hope they do, indeed, exist unrecognized today. Maybe you meant it as humorous, but I find your number one point monstrous. "Breeding programs for zoos?" Ugh!

You can't see a zipper because there isn't one lol

Oy. I’m sorry, bringing your religion to help you form (what should be) a scientific conclusion leaves me at the gate. I almost spit out my sandwich when he started talking about the “astigmatism” of BF. Wait. That explains a lot. They just need glasses! Done and out.

Kiviat is obviously a fool.

I’m still rooting for the Primatologist….

Went for a nice little day trip with my wife on Sunday, to an FSR near Squamish. Stopped to check out a recreation site about 20 km in and stopped back later in the day for a bbq. Took a spur road, which ended up being a newly active logging area. The ground was still nice and soft, perfect for tracks, so we stopped and had a scout around. Found a few bear tracks and "human shaped" footprints, but, unfortunately, they were boot-tracks. Didn't take any pictures of those. Who wants to see photos of some logger's old, worn-out Kodiaks anyway. Absolutely no wildlife seen, whatsoever, except for a single solitary Grouse, and a deer, about 600 m (just shy of 2000 ft) from the FSR entrance off the highway. The area looks promising, so we are going to go back for a campout in the future.

Sarcastic, sorry, wasn't more clear on that. Most exotic animal parks are cesspools. Literal cesspools and genetic cesspools. Considering the plight of the Tiger King and all that, finding out that these zoos/exotic animal parks are as much cult as zoos, I thought the most disturbing thing we can do is, literally, disturb them by putting them in zoos. So while it could be cool if we could get some documentaries out of it, I wouldn't want to see them in zoos. Frankly, if the little homo floresiensis aren't humans, aren't sapiens, I don't know what "science" would do. Certainly screw things up if they were discovered to be a living species?