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Those are some pretty horse, and nice pictures.... They don't mean diddly. Too many old timers here do this. Rather than evidence to back their position, look at all this evidence of what a big bad outsdoors guy I am, so I must be right. Its not a sasquatch, it never was. Its a bear at a bear feeding station, in an odd pose, doing bear stuff.

IDK, maybe if you would have just owned up to your mistake when I first pointed it out?

Bug-a-bags for catching Japanese Beetles (Junebugs) work amazingly well, and you dump out the bugs once a day into your chicken coop for a treat for the girls, and see a hundred beetles fall into the coop. It does make sense that smells can attract an animal, even a smart one, in the woods for quite a distance. This has been field tested many times, and some studies have looked into primate preferences. Offer a chimp a bowl of raw meat and a bowl of cooked meat, they often take the cooked meat first. doi:10.1016/j.jhevol.2008.03.003 (duke.edu) Think how much better it smells when a neighbor cooks burgers on the grill, than when you do yourself. And you can smell them from a block away. Cooking your own burgers while camping, that scent is travelling for miles, potentially, at levels that a dog can pick up. While we know nothing about the brain of this animal, how large their olfactory centers are, or how sensitive their noses are, you can smell food at a significantly further distance than you can smell uncooked food or blood I'll bet. And I'll bet, being a primate of some sort, they are attracted to the smell of cooking meat. On top of that, those scents burn pathways in our brains, allowing us to recall memories we thought we forgotten. Study suggests that exposure to different smells could help improve memory : NPR As to what would work? Who knows. Nothing works consistently, I guess, or we would see one at every picnic. A Gift of a cooked burger placed downwind outside of camp seems like a great place to start but a great place to attract the attention of bears, racoons, and about a hundred other species which may land you in real danger. Also, I saw a documentary about the subject of human pheromones once, and it didn't work out for the protagonist... "Perfume" it was called. That guy knew scents.

Maybe you just didn’t say “BEAR” enough?!

So you meant to quote my posting, and then refer entirely to another person's comments.

Wasnt referring to you.... so mine is not the confusion...... No..... maker of wacky claims needs wacky proof. Thats how critical thinking works. Nothing wacky about a bear at a bear station doing bear stuff. Normal, I never used, you did. Prove it isnt....

Black Jack and Joker at the ranch Scout and Joker at the snow peak cabin doing work for the USFS Steven, Jasper, Red and Scout at ranch Red at ranch Big Red, Mary Lou and Benny in the Frank Church wilderness, Idaho

An old packer trick is to rub Vicks vapor rub in their nose. I didn’t have any with me so I tied my fleece jacket around her neck that had my sweat on it. Its mainly just time under pack saddle. Another thing that helps young mules is to mix them with old mules. The old mules will teach them with bites or kicks if they get out of line. I had a lead mule that would lift her leg going down the trail if a young mule tried to pass her. If the youngin did not take the hint? They got kicked in the chin. She was the best mule I ever owned. Bought her from the Busted Ass ranch sale in Arlee, Montana. Paid 1500 bucks for her in 96. Everyone laughed at me until it was time to throw elk quarters on and they are having a goat rodeo and my 2 mules are standing in the gut pile ears forward…… they came right off an outfitter pack string. She trained many of the young mules going forward. Suspension bridges, deer, elk, bear, high line etiquette, going down the trail. I shot her with my .44 mag when she was blind and failing in the fall one year. She would not have made it through another winter. I bawled like a baby. Hardest thing I have ever done. She was in her 30s. Her name was Mary Lou.

I've seen that mug! My only point is that their content is a little monotonous after watching all of their sasquatch related content for years. That said, I am looking forward to their next installment haha

I think they would work on any animal. The same reason women stay out of dangerous bear areas during their menstrual cycle.

For whatever reason we can say they don't seem to be having an effect since they are not attracting them. If they are, they are not doing so in a way that results in people getting them on camera or having a reported sighting using them as bait. I like the idea of some scent as bait. Certain animals go into heat. That is a strategy that could be assumed to work for some animals. We all know in people (and some animals) the smell of food or cooking seems to work. We all have heard in science class how wolves came closer smell of food cooking on the fire and became domesticated dogs for the cavemen. What attracts a bigfoot? I don't know if apes are attracted to 'smells' be it pheromones or McDonalds in the garbage bin. We could assume Bigfoot might be more likely to be attracted to what we might be or at least what attracts a Gorilla, but we can't really know. Just guess. All things need to eat sleep mate and so on. Using a smell in a smart way - assuming we know the smell- seems like a reasonable idea. The trick will be to 1) get the right smell 2) have it close enough to enough subjects to lure at least one in. 3) have a camera ready and able when the animal arrives. I remember a Bigfoot show on TV where the person played a set of drums in the woods hoping to make bigfoot 'curious' Not the worst idea. My take would be food attracts people and other animals. Even if I eat, I still notice my stomach rumbles when the neighbor is cooking on the grill or popping popcorn. At the end of the day Dr. Hannible Lecter sums it up well in Silence of the Lambs: Hannibal Lecter: "First principles, Clarice. Simplicity. Read Marcus Aurelius. Of each particular thing ask: what is it in itself? What is its nature? What does he do, this man you seek? In this way, if we could know what Bigfoot likes and provide it to him/her we might have a chance. Clearly what we are doing isn't working or is not working well enough to accomplish a home run encounter.