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My comment is from personal experience. I was raised in a farm until about I was 10 and was always comfortable in the woods. Then my parents moved to the burbs and have lived in them ever since. When WVFooter and I first went out into the deep woods for our trail cam project, with no cell coverage or help of any kind should some emergency occur, I admit to have had BFOTB but not like it's being represented here. I did not think every sound was a BF. It was more of being unfamiliar with the environment around me and all the stories and excitement that kept the thought in the back of my mind (could that branch break be a BF?!). After the second outing, I became more comfortable and after the third, I was completely desensitized. Now, it's not an issue. I think BFOTB is real for "greenhorns". It could become permanent if you don't have the courage to venture out again. It is temporary if you keep at it and become comfortable in the environment. It is being misrepresented in this thread by exaggeration IMO.

Branco, What ever happened to the type 3 bigfoot you saw with the bright orange tracking collar around its neck?

I just wasted my time listening to Disotell talking mostly about the Melba Ketchum thing on Episode 43. She has been pretty well discounted by the bigfoot research community as not being credible. Nothing, repeat nothing, Disotell says in any way refutes anything I have ever said about DNA. Most of what he said actually supports statements I have made about BF DNA testing and species typing. There is a National Genome Bank. All samples are compared to that. As a matter of fact the wikapedia link I provided gives far more information about species typing than Disotell did during the interview. I jumped through Bodhi's hoops and like I thought it was just a time waster to me. Disotell by his own admission gets dozens of unsolicited DNA samples a week asking that they be tested. The only testing they get is the walk to the trash can where they are thrown away. I can understand that because it is over $200 a test. I cannot understand, other than Disotell has never found anything that has resulted in some unknown primate species, why Bodhi even thinks what he says is significant. All of what Disotell said was hashed over during the Melba Ketchum debacle by multiple sources. Bodhi thinks 2012 stuff is pertinent but claims I am uninformed. I guess since Disotell has not found anything it cannot be found? Until someone sees a bleeding bigfoot, or gets a chunk of flesh, no one can be sure what they have is from a BF. I would not test a hair sample from some unknown person either no do I go around in the woods, picking up hair samples to test. The probability that any given sample is not some known species is very low. But then if the sum total of your knowledge about a subject is what you can glean from skeptics in and out of science, I guess that what can be witnessed or found in the field is not important.

Bodhi seems to question my understanding of mitochondrial DNA testing. That is the only testing that can be performed on hair. Here is a wikopedia article that describes the process of species taxonomy and barcoding to identify a species. As the article mentions, a bar code accepted type of species is established. He questions my interpretation of the species typing process so you can read for yourself how the process works. . As the article mentions, there is considerable discord among scientists about the ability of mitochondrial DNA to discern an unknown species. Mitochondrial DNA is not nearly as complex as nuclear DNA and species typing is not as definitive. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DNA_barcoding Over 160,000 species of plants and animals have been typed and added to the data base. I stand by my statement that if a tested hair sample did not have MDNA that could be sequenced, that sample could or would not provide any information on species of origin. So BF hair very well could have been tested an not yielded any results.

Now you may want to laugh at thisBut what I see in the upper right hand corner of the photo is a head/face wearing a Mexican style hat I know that is not what is there but that is the shape I see