Sasquatch Odor Trap?

[Guest JiggyPotamus]

I learned something about skunks recently that possibly relate to sasquatch odor. A few days ago I ran over a skunk late at night, and I am not sure exactly "where" the smell went, but it ended up in my car. What I learned is that the odor of the skunk changes when you get within a certain small radius. It is so strong that it smells absolutely nothing like a typical skunk. If you smell a skunk outside then the chances are you are not very close. If you could get within a few feet from the skunk who has just sprayed you would notice the odor completely changes. Perhaps if you have ever had a dog sprayed by a skunk, you will know what I'm talking about. It is just so concentrated that the smell changes, and perhaps this has implications for sasquatch odors in some way.

 

Anyway, regarding your proposition, I do not think it is a bad idea by any means, but I do think that such a thing will require much experimentation, and what's worse, you will have little control over the numerous variables, due to the nature of sasquatch. So this would not be a true scientific experiment, but more of a layman's experiment to determine what works. Which is actually better for sasquatch researchers in many cases. I've mentioned before the case of the guy being chased up the tree by a sasquatch, or something like that, because of the very specific odor he had used. Essentially a used feminine product. Now, I really like this idea, not because I'm weird but because if there is one thing that all animals share, it is a drive to reproduce. Even if humans do not realize it, attraction between is based partly on smell, although this is not a conscious decision. Because male primates have this tendency to place logic aside when it comes to their drive for a female of their species, I think that sexual attraction is one thing that could lure a male sasquatch to a specific location. With that said however, I have no clue what is the best way to go about this, but I do think that this is the first route that anyone performing such experiments should travel, since it takes into account actual established scientific ideas and primate physiology itself.

 

Pheromones, which have been discussed before on this board, might also be worthwhile to pursue. One of the potential problems is that we have no clue if sasquatch have any sort of mating period, and whether they would only be responsive to the opposite sex during such times. I say this because a researcher could achieve negative or even positive results at a specific time of the year, while achieving the opposite results at another time. Things like this need to be considered and controlled as much as possible, along with any other variables which might come into play. In summation I think the idea itself is worth pursuing, which is what I have stated regarding some of your other ideas as well. Most of your ideas are, in my opinion, worth pursuing to varying degrees. The idea of attracting sasquatch through specific odors is actually one for which an entire experimental expedition could be geared, while other ideas would be more for supplemental experimentation. I mean you do not want to take an idea that has little to no chance of success, or greater risk, and base an entire experimental expedition on it or anything. Most researchers can only go into the woods to look for bigfoot so many times per year, therefore they do not need to waste even one of those expeditions, no matter how large or small of an expedition it is, on ideas that have very little chance of producing results. This does not apply however to those who live in the middle of bigfoot territory, and who can walk the woods or whatever whenever they please. This does not apply to the majority, and even those living in prime research locations have other constraints on their ability to search. Anyway, good stuff hiflier.

[hiflier]

Hello JiggyPotamus,

 

Thank you very much Jig. and thank you for giving it some thought and helping elaborate on some of the pros and cons too. As I said I can see some risks trying this sort of thing. Bears for one. Thinking back a few months and then just a few posts ago I mentioned skunk cabbage. Tp me it is a connection and may in fact BE the culprit in Sasquatch odors. For not only would one smell skunky but the rich organic soil in the wet environments that skunk cabbage grows in might be that musty, old sock odor some report as well. It would sure simplify the testing LOL. Then I wouldn't have to embarrass myself by being seen in the neighborhood rolling around on the local roads during commuter's hours on some dead skunk carcass. Could mean a fast trip to the slammer too. One thing's certain though.....I couldn't go right home

 

But getting back to bears, in the spring, if it's an early one, the skunk cabbage is an early and plentiful food source for hungry bears coming out of a log sleep. Cubs too probably. I've read it can be up to 90% of a bears early diet in some regions depending on the winter to spring transition. I don't think that true later in the seasons but smelling like a skunk, or skunk cabbage say in the late summer or fall when bears are fattening up probably wouldn't be wise. Storing skunk cabbage for use in winter IMO would fail as an animal would be suspicious of th odor off season an before skunks are on the move in late winter for mating. That's usually the time we see them dead on the road because they're so active in say March.

 

Just some more things to consider for the Spring research while out looking for BF carcasses. One thing to remember to is that some folks say a BF odor is like sulfur and true skunk spray does have that ingredient in it. Don't know about skunk cabbage though- I need to look that one up. The cabbage would cover more the skunk/rotting organic material side of things though. 

[Trogluddite]

.... I do not think it is a bad idea by any means, but I do think that such a thing will require much experimentation, and what's worse, you will have little control over the numerous variables, due to the nature of sasquatch......

 

Hi Hi, 

 

The bolded part is spot on and part of what I was trying to get at.  The conventional wisdom is that individual Bigfoots or clans have a large home area, similar to other large mammals.  So if you put out the perfect concoction in the northwest corner of their home area one night and they happen to be 20 miles away in the southeast corner, it may fail simply due to a lack of Bigfoot to smell it.

 

To resolve that issue, should anyone try, you would have to be either persistent, putting out the bait night on night for weeks on end, or able to use the bait in an area w/suspected activity at the time.  

[hiflier]

Hello Trogluddite,

 

Hi Hi?? LOL, got a chuckle on that one And you and JiggyPotamus are absolutely on the money. It's a crap shoot for certain but wood knocking and call blasting just hasn't been and isn't my style. Of course rolling in skunk cabbage isn't either truth be known