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I agree to an extent, but surely it would depend on the size of the 'range' they had that they would have as a home base or whatever the term would be ? I say this as where that Olympic Project nest site is, and with the near 3 years of data we have on it now with the SM4 recording equipment, track finds etc, it appears that they're in that general area year round. Don't quote me on this but i'm close when saying that at worst, there are week long gaps with no 'unknown activity' (vocals/percussives etc), and that's rare. Those week long 'absences' are Fall related too but even then, who knows if it's all of them moving on for a while or whether they're just not communicating within the boundaries of what the equipment can pick up ? Winters, in that area anyway, appear to be prime time and that's when 'activity', from a data perspective anyway, is at its max.

"You didn't think they actually spent ten thousand dollars for a hammer and thirty thousand for a toilet seat, did you?"

Let me just give my head a wobble here. You're coaching a kid, along with others, about his discovery of primate DNA (i'm assuming undiscovered primate given the context of this forum) in the UK ? What am i missing here as a born and bred Englishman because there are no undiscovered primates in the UK, and anyone with any even tiny knowledge of the UK and it's make up where forestry is concerned, would be fully aware of that ? Skin, we've had collaboration If my memory serves me right before, don't waste your time on this, this is at best naivety and at worst deception. Spend an hour looking in to the UK, it's size, its history and its forestry make up and then you'll understand.

@Huntster I had a similar experience with a moose at a lake in central BC. A long time friend and hunting buddy spotted a nice bull swimming across a small lake towards him. He waited for it to come out of the lake; it walked about 10 yards from the shore, shook like a dog to get the water out of its coat, then turned sideways, presenting the perfect shot for Robert to take. He put one right through the heart/lung area and watched the bull lurch back into the lake and start swimming back to the other shore. It died trying to climb out the far side of the lake. I showed up about then, having heard the shot. We spent half a day struggling through the willow swamp at the end of the lake to get to the moose, by which time it was snowing. Like you, I stripped down, waded out on the mucky bottom to tie a rope onto his rack, and we pulled the whole body far enough out of the water to get it gutted, skinned and quartered. By then it was dark so we left it there for retrieval in the morning. It took two days to haul the quarters out to the logging road. On the final morning, arriving at the carcass, we were greeted by a hissing pine martin, who was claiming the last load for himself. After repeated attempts to scare him off failed I had to shoot the little critter to get to the meat. My wife still has the lovely pelt on her dresser, 35 years later. We really needed a boat or an Argo for that one. I bought a used Argo the next year, and only ever had to use it once to retrieve an animal in the 10 years or so that I had it.

Really? Somebody hit and killed a sasquatch, and the carcass was salvaged?