Guest Posted February 11, 2014 Share Posted February 11, 2014 I imagine them snuggling up in a big furry ball should they need too, with the young in the middle. This would be for the coldest conditions, but they are probably evolved to handle most cold weather. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JDL Posted February 11, 2014 Share Posted February 11, 2014 Just don't get them wet or feed them after midnight. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted February 11, 2014 Share Posted February 11, 2014 No boogers here. I have long called my state the Sasquatch-Free Zone. I think the only sighting in my specific area was around 1900, and it was less than detailed. There have been a handful of sighting/track finds over the years but they are extremely random, the last being a several day flap out on the rez in the western part of the state a number of years ago. Were I to guess I would say that was one or two traveling along the Missouri, just passing through. Were I to bother snooping for some sign here, I would go up to the Pembina Gorge about an hour north, kind of our Grand Canyon that is the border between the US & Canada. This is the area where I shot the moose I described in a different thread. It is a nice piece of wild ground, in some places the bush was so thick I couldn't see a moose that I was close enough to that I could hear it browsing & chewing. These days if a guy went out in the gorge at night to snoop around he would quickly have one of the Border Patrol's drones over him in short order and various of my LE brothers closing in on him in less than an hour... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hiflier Posted February 11, 2014 Share Posted February 11, 2014 Hello NDT, I think the Border Patrol to be a good untapped resource for Sasquatch existence. They're basic approach is if it isn't the size of a Human then it is disregarded. And considering all the northern wildlife that knows no borders it's probably easier and more efficient to keep the target criteria as narrowly focused as they apparently do. Know anyone? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cotter Posted February 11, 2014 Share Posted February 11, 2014 These days if a guy went out in the gorge at night to snoop around he would quickly have one of the Border Patrol's drones over him in short order and various of my LE brothers closing in on him in less than an hour... Challenge accepted! :-) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted February 13, 2014 Share Posted February 13, 2014 When I was hunting moose up in the Gorge in 90' or 91', the border was marked by a path the width of a bulldozer blade through the bush and in places that they couldn't get a blade in, just a post marker. Now there are motion sensors, the drones out of GFAB, and QRF type response that is actually pretty quick. When I first came up here I was duck hunting north of Rock Lake, more than anything driving around being amazed at all the birds & game (this was back in the early 80s when we were REALLY rural), and got turned around driving prairie trails (two track trails). When I stopped at a farm to ask directions I found I was several miles into Canada... Times sure have changed, those border & homeland security guys have no sense of humor about accidental armed incursions across the border... Very intriguing thought Hiflier, if anyone has some air to ground footage of a booger, it would be the agencies that operate drones along the northern borders. The distances they can get detailed video is astounding, the stuff seen on the internet from the wars does not do their capabilities justice. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Doc Holliday Posted February 13, 2014 Share Posted February 13, 2014 Just don't get them wet or feed them after midnight. lol, +1 for the gremlins reference Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Drew Posted June 5, 2014 Share Posted June 5, 2014 I hope they don't build a shelter around the compost pile, because that would be an asphyxiating experience. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest insanity42 Posted June 24, 2014 Share Posted June 24, 2014 Does anyone know how far north early hominids lived without the use of fire or clothing? There is archeological evidence that suggests early hominins were in Europe in the Early Pleistocene, about 1,000,000 to 800,000 years ago. During this time, most of Europe was a boreal zone, where the seasonal temperatures would range from −40°C (−40°F) during the winter and maybe exceed 30°C (86°F) during the summer. Boreal zones typically have a very short summer, about three months in duration. Regions today that are boreal zones include most of Siberia and Canada, southern Labrador, the high altitude Rocky Mountains and the portions of the Alps. Yet evidence that fire was used by these early hominins is apparently non-existent until the later Pleistocene, about 400,000 to 300,000 years ago. This does suggest that early hominins were surviving in a rather harsh environment, at least perhaps to ourselves, without the habitual use of fire for several hundreds of thousands of years. Wil Roebroeks and Paola Villa (March 29, 2011), On the earliest evidence for habitual use of fire in Europe. PNAS, vol. 108, no. 13, pg. 5209-5214 If Sasquatch exists, and they are a large non-human hominin, surviving a harsh winter may not be a challenge. Other hominins have apparently done so for several hundreds of thousands of years. It seems Neandertals were perhaps the first to use fire habitually. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted June 24, 2014 Share Posted June 24, 2014 I believe these are more Neanderthal like, which means their survival and adaptation skills are vast. The cold weather is a challenging question, but one i think evolution of beings has proven to be possible. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JDL Posted June 25, 2014 Share Posted June 25, 2014 I believe that they are actually an Ice Age adapted hominid. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Doc Holliday Posted June 25, 2014 Share Posted June 25, 2014 if so , I wonder how they've adapted to ticks and summer heat and all that hair ?...... idk, gotta be rough. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest keninsc Posted June 25, 2014 Share Posted June 25, 2014 (edited) Every other creature that lives in the wood has to adapt to all these things, plus most of them have to deal with being hunted on a regular and seasonal basis. At least there isn't a posted hunting season on Bigfoots. Edited June 25, 2014 by keninsc Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JDL Posted June 25, 2014 Share Posted June 25, 2014 if so , I wonder how they've adapted to ticks and summer heat and all that hair ?...... idk, gotta be rough. Probably eat them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MIB Posted June 25, 2014 Moderator Share Posted June 25, 2014 if so , I wonder how they've adapted to ticks and summer heat and all that hair ?...... idk, gotta be rough. I think JDL's assessment is the most likely. There's still a lot left unknown, but it presents a viable theme. There are two kinds of adaptation, biological or behavioral. The "big dumb animals" that could not biologically adapt to temperature change are extinct. However, if BF is self-aware, capable of deliberate thought and planning, then survival becomes possible via problem solving and behavioral adaptation that are immediately effective rather than taking generations of biological adaptation. It may not be the right answer but it's the most sensible, most consistent I've seen so far. MIB Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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