Leaderboard

The trackway I found in the late '70s, and took John Green to see, was in late spring snow, crossing a high mountain pass between 2 large N-S creek valleys. That would seem to indicate that it spent the winter in the lower area of the valley bottom, then found some reason to cross to the next valley east. Both of these valleys get some snow every winter, but many feet less than the ridges separating them. There are no known hot springs in either valley, but both have decent size lakes.

My experience of the subject was in winter time. I’ve hoped and prayed ever since that day I would cut another fresh set of tracks in snow. But to no avail….. Where does Bigfoot go in winter time? What does he eat? Why don’t we find more tracks?

Humans in Alaska tend to store food for the winter and stay home, especially females. It’s not a scientific hibernation, but it’s a dormancy borne of common sense. The horrid smell associated with sasquatches might be related to nest caching, similar to grizzlies burying their kills. After the original trackway find, Ivan Marx tried to sell a movie footage of a sasquatch limping along that was faked. The trackway wasn’t faked.

They can't stay put year round. They would consume everything in sight. I always thought they are nomads.

Mountain Caribou stay up high in winter. If they are chasing ungulates? That would be about the only opportunity. Most everything else drops to lower elevations. If they are like a squirrel and have caches? They could hole up just about anywhere. The theory I have heard is they go west out to the mild coast lines. That would possibly explain the minimal tracks found. If we could find a fresh set of tracks in snow? With current snowmobile and timber sled technology? That would be a game changer.

It’s a futile argument. Huntster is convinced that Zana was a Almasty based on legends and fish stories. Maybe he just wants to believe he has a shot at a Bigfootress since he believes Zana bred with man!! 😂😂

So.........a bigfoot *might* be of the genus Homo, and thus leaves DNA which is extremely close to Homo sapien DNA in a nest, and if so, that bigfoot would be *human*, just like all others in the genus. Or...........a bigfoot *might* be a feral person, and thus a Homo sapien and human, just like Zana. In both cases, that bigfoot is not a species managed by USFWS. It would not be inclusive of either the ESA or wildlife management authorities. And if you killed it with premeditation, you will commit homicide. Homo-cide. The killing of a human. But don't worry, it's done all the time. Daily. Sometimes on grand scale. That's why we have lawyers. Blast away.

In regards to the question of why would sasquatch need to develop cloaking or effective camouflage or invisibilty, when it is the apex predator of its environment? It's because adaptation is always a step behind the the causative factors. Sasquatch weren't always the alpha predator in North america. Figuring they came over the Bering straight land bridge in time to get swept up in the "megafication" of the North American megafauna, and thus became Pleistocene mega-hominids, they were still dealing with a large variety of megapredators more specialized for predation than they were. And while their heightened cognition probably lent itself well to cooperative hunting/foraging as well as cooperative defence, individually they were still pretty vulnerable to predation. That and I'm sure they didn't start off with as refined cooperative behaviors as they ended that era with. In light of that, it's pretty easy to see how the camouflage/concealment abilities would arise, perhaps even sentiently directed or guided, as we must keep in mind these are not mere apes nor displaced giganthopithicus looking for a bamboo substitute, these were increasing larger hominids capable of strategy, contextual analysis, and a growing awareness of just what groups of such creatures might be capable of(which could well prove quite the advantage, especially as the climate began to shift and things began getting desperate for the more specialized predators as the shifting plant communities killed off much of their prey) So the abilities for concealment and camouflage could well be adaptations to conditions no longer quite so pressing, yet they still prove useful, and so therefore are retained.

Sorry, late to the discussion...I just wanted to point out that "infrared vision" in reptiles isn't a function of eye-based vision. And most reptiles don't "see" in the infrared spectrum. Infrared sensory perception is seen in the pit vipers and certain species of boas and pythons. The pit vipers(including all the U.S. venomous species aside from the coral snakes, as well as numerous asian, African and neotropical species) are characterized by a pair of facial pits(one on each side) between the eyes and nostrils, hence the name "pit vipers"(as opposed to the other viper groups that have no infrared sensory organs) The boas and pythons that have these organs tend to have these heat sensing pits arranged along both the upper and lower labial scales(essentially "lip scales") in various configurations, with some species displaying a prodigious number. Generally speaking those along the front half of the upper jaw/lips tend to be more pronounced, while those of the lower jaw are usually positioned further back, starting about half way back. Interestingly enough, boas have their pits located between their labial scales, while pythons have their pits in the center of each scale. Good example of the boa pits may be seen in the emerald tree boa, and the Madagascar tree boa shows just how extensive these pits can be. Facial shots of a reticulated python will show the mid scale placement of python pits. While not a part of the ocular vision system, these pits do provide a sort of infrared imagery that can distinguish thermal differences of either 1.0 or 0.1 °C(it's been a long time since I reviewed this topic) but either way it presents a surprisingly distinct map of heat signatures, allowing these creatures to hunt warm blooded prey in relative darkness.