Bigfoot Debate

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So why do people feel the need to post long stories that always end with them knowing that Bigfoot exists for a fact and can't figure out why someone one isn't willing to take them at their word?
 

SwitSof

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You may well be right, but in the past few decades many creatures have been discovered that were unknown to science. What about the Komodo dragon? (1912)

Komodo dragon is an endangered species but still exists in Komodo Island in Indonesia.
According to Wikipedia komodos were first documented by the Europeans in 1910 but

Widespread notoriety came after 1912, in which Peter Ouwens, the director of the Zoological Museum at Bogor, Java, published a paper on the topic after receiving a photo and a skin.[21][13] Later, the Komodo Dragon was the driving factor for an expedition to Komodo Island by W. Douglas Burden.

I suppose it's a matter of exposure.
Just like I bet not that many people here know that the biggest Buddhist temple in the world is Borobudur Temple in Java actually near Yogyakarta, where the earthquake with the death toll of about 6 thousand over happened last year, that's even included as forgotten world's wonders :(

Whereas this Bigfoot thing has received some exposures, pretty much like debating whether ghosts do exist or not...
Probably that's why people talk about it so much, cause it's considered to be in the gray area...
 
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RomSpaceKnight

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Yes but then explain how something so rare, is able to sustain the species.
You have to have a certain amount of creatures to breed through a varied gene pool or else you as a species die out.

How many animals do you need? Many species of animals tolerate some inbreeding. Would 1000 sasquatch scattered over the length of the Great Divide do it? Probably.
 

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How many animals do you need? Many species of animals tolerate some inbreeding. Would 1000 sasquatch scattered over the length of the Great Divide do it? Probably.

Well I'm not a biologist so I can only guess but, it isn't the specific number, it's all about the specific number of breeding pairs.

For example, On Komodo Island there are only about 5000 Dragons. But there have always been, as far back as anyone can remember, only about 5000 Dragons. Yet they are listed as vulnerable because there are only around 350 breeding females.

So to have only about a thousand members total only a portion of them would be breeding females. Understand?
 

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I suspect, if they exist, they either pair bond or live solitary lives similiar to tigers or bears. Reptiles are different from mammals in breeding. I believe there are even female reptiles who do not need males to procreate.

If they exist, it's no a given they are threatened. A pop. of 1000 could conceviably have only 250 breeding females. Still enough to breed without inbreeding.
 
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Originally Posted by RomSpaceKnight
If they exist, it's no a given they are threatened. A pop. of 1000 could conceviably have only 250 breeding females. Still enough to breed without inbreeding.
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I suspect, if they exist, they either pair bond or live solitary lives similiar to tigers or bears. Reptiles are different from mammals in breeding. I believe there are even female reptiles who do not need males to procreate.

If they exist, it's no a given they are threatened. A pop. of 1000 could conceviably have only 250 breeding females. Still enough to breed without inbreeding.

I'm not sure about that. Given that they decide who to breed with on an individual basis, inbreeding would be very very likely. In such a small population, I would expect there to be either a very large litter or a very prolific breeding cycle. The other aspects such as loss of habitat, disease, toxins in the food chain, would I suspect result in an extinction.

Also based upon the taken for granted aspects, bipedal humanoid, their biology would be much more like a primate than a bear. And so, naturally their behavior and pathology would as well.

And so that would be like saying a thousand Neanderthals are living undetected in North America. With the capabilities of hunters now a days, easily track, and kill anything to extinction if allowed to, there is such a low possibility for something to go so undetected as to not even leave a single bone, or a single carcass open to discovery, it's far more logical to say there is no such thing rather than to insist on the possibility that there is.
 

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This is just to say
I have denied
the Bigfoot theory
that is in
the discussion

and which
you were probably saving
for conspiracies

Forgive me
it was unfounded
so devoid of fact
and so unavailing


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I disagree. Thousands go unaccounted for in the hills of WV all the time. No census, no utilities or bills. Its not really that tough when you think about it. Especially if nobody is looking for you.

Though there is a rather good and detailed accounting of them none the less. The point being that though there are people who get so far off the grid that they don't exist to detection, they aren't to the point that no one no matter what can turn up a single bone or carcass to reveal they have been there.
Even though there are people actively hunting for them.
 

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Though there is a rather good and detailed accounting of them none the less. The point being that though there are people who get so far off the grid that they don't exist to detection, they aren't to the point that no one no matter what can turn up a single bone or carcass to reveal they have been there.
Even though there are people actively hunting for them.

Well, perhaps we should tell the IRS/Revenue Canada that these 'humans' have been existing all these years and have yet to pay $1 of tax. I am sure they would find them.