Guest HarryAbe Posted February 15, 2012 Share Posted February 15, 2012 If a strong man can lift 300-400lbs and a squatch is 4 times bigger on average, can we assume a squatch could potentially lift 2000lbs? This is arm/bicep/chest strength....leg strength would be astronomical using the same theory.....anyone gave thought on that? As far as intelligence, how big do researchers think their brains are? They are obviously smart enough to avoid humans this long without concrete evidence .... Thoughts?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Twilight Fan Posted February 15, 2012 Share Posted February 15, 2012 I think good old squatch is stronger than BOTH of these guys put together. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Primate Posted February 15, 2012 Share Posted February 15, 2012 I would place "Squatchy" somewhere between the two.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest HarryAbe Posted February 15, 2012 Share Posted February 15, 2012 Lol...those examples are both chemically altered! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted February 15, 2012 Share Posted February 15, 2012 HOw smart? Smart enough to speak a language, to know what a gun is if they see one, to come into the house and poke around if so inclined, to completely avoid us, avoid trail cams, know a trap or a lure if they see one, and to outwit us at every turn. If we are honest and objectively assess the evidence, we have to conclude they are very intelligent. I think they are as smart as we are, or close to it. Their table manners are not good, though. How strong? Strong enough to shake the house if they thump on the wall, to lift small boulders and hurl them some distance, to lift up the back of a car or camper, to topple middling size trees, or toss truck tires and fifty-five gallon drums around like they were toys. They are almost as strong as their B.O. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Swanpawn Posted February 15, 2012 Share Posted February 15, 2012 As to the issue of strength, the male adult low land gorilla is estimated to have about 10 times the strength of the avage adult man. No reason to believe that an adult bf would not also be so endowed. One area however that might be a weakness is that of verticle jumping. I have not come across any mention in the various forum discussions that would indicate that bf can or do jump up. I do not know if this is an over sight of the reporters or just that observers have never been in the right place at the right time. If it is a weakness then, is it one that could be exploited? One other thought that comes to mind is that if there are few or perhaps no predators of bf that are from above, do bf look up? Are they phyically able to look up and scan the terrain and trees above their position? Again if this is a weakness can it be exploited? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Jodie Posted February 15, 2012 Share Posted February 15, 2012 How are their brains? I guess if we knew we could anticipate what they were planning and how they live in order to get better evidence. Since that hasn't happened yet to my knowledge, I'm assuming they process some sensory input faster than we do, such as scanning the environment for threats. In other words, they know you are there before you know they are there.This could be an example of a combination of some innate/instinctive and learned behaviors that wouldn't necessarily indicate superior intelligence when compared to other primates IMO. As someone mentioned above, chimps and gorillas have more strength than we do, however, when your chest is reportedly four feet wide, does it really matter? At that size they would be able to break you in half regardless. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted February 15, 2012 Share Posted February 15, 2012 Harry and Jodie- If you had read Richard Stubstads' hypothesis, it was very interesting in proposing that the Sasquatch has a highly developed left brain to survive in the wilds. The left side of the brain will tune into its enviornment, highly developed smell, sight, spirtual capabilities and strength etc. Were as we have a highly developed right brain exploting technlogies, and other reasoning characters on that level; a very interesting hypothosis. ptangier Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Jodie Posted February 15, 2012 Share Posted February 15, 2012 No, I haven't read Stubstad's theory. I know he is facing some difficult health issues so I imagine he has explored some of the metaphysical and neurobiological topics and research regarding NDE's. At this point, without a skull or specimen to examine , any guess is as good as another. I do know that they have done MRI's on Neanderthal skulls and concluded that although they had larger brains there were less lobes and more elongation like a chimpanzee's brain. That indicates a profound difference in how they might have viewed the world. The way bigfoot's head is described as being cone shaped makes me think their brains may be similar to that of a gorilla or an orangutan. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest MikeG Posted February 15, 2012 Share Posted February 15, 2012 (edited) Just a little point of order: a bigger brain doesn't mean bigger intelligence. After all, a blue whale has a much bigger brain than us, and no-one claims it to be more intelligent. Einstein, famously had a very average sized brain. It's sitting in a jar somewhere, so it can be measured. Secondly, there is quite a lot of work being done on brain function at the moment using real-time MRI scans, and a lot of the old left-brain/ right-brain theories are proving to be false, apparently. I believe Stubstad is a statistician, so I'll wait for other experts more closely associated with the field before even starting to come to a view on sasquatch brain function. As to strength...I read a report where a sasquatch turned over a skip (do you call these a dumpster?). The only other animal I can think of that could manage that, if true, would be an elephant. Mike Edited February 15, 2012 by MikeG Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted February 15, 2012 Share Posted February 15, 2012 Jodie and Mike- actually Richard Stubstads hypothosis was based on the 3 samples he completed to the MtDna; he hadn't completed the(any) NuDna that I know of. It's an interesting theory you can read at sciencealive.com ptangier Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shelly Posted February 15, 2012 Share Posted February 15, 2012 (edited) An adult male Gorilla is said to be able to lift somewhere in the vacinity of 2,000 to 6,000 lbs (exact number varies or is unknown). Edited February 15, 2012 by Shelly Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest HarryAbe Posted February 15, 2012 Share Posted February 15, 2012 all interesting responses...as usual, we will NEVER know until we capture one dead or alive... this was really put into question from watching some shows about Orca's and how smart they are...we still don't completly know and have been studying them for years. there hunting techniques for instance are very complicated and they even seem to show mercy towards some prey items sometimes...all interesting stuff... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
indiefoot Posted February 15, 2012 Share Posted February 15, 2012 I took these a few years ago. I couldn't find any tool marks to indicate that machinery had been used. The tree is broken off and the rock is resting on the broken stump. The tree break looked to be a season or two old. I don't have enough expertise to tell if it was a live break. It's next to a one lane farm road and at the same time I found other limestone rocks along that section of road had been turned over. I still go hmmmm... when I look at it. Could it be something other than BF, sure. I do think they had been in the area. This shows the weathered part of the rock has been turned 90 degrees on it's side and set back down in the same spot. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest MikeG Posted February 15, 2012 Share Posted February 15, 2012 Richard Stubstads hypothosis was based on the 3 samples he completed to the MtDna; I'd be astonished if DNA can tell you anything at all about brain function, particularly about which side of a brain might be dominant. Astonished. Furthermore, as I said, hemispherical dominance is being increasingly questioned, apparently, the more we know about brains. Mike Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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