Why wouldn't bigfoot hunt humans?

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If they evolved from Gigantopithecus, they are presumably vegetarians. This would mean discounting all sightings in which they eat meat, and cherry-picking the cherry/berry/Good-N-Plenty-eating sightings.
 
epepke said:
To pretend to be serious, most predators that otherwise could don't seem to go after humans a lot. Even cases of lions going after humans seem mostly to happen with a lion who has been separated from the social group and has some sort of disease. Maybe we don't look appetizing. Even sharks would really rather eat fish than chow down on a coed.

Except for komodo dragons. And pigs. If you fall over near a pig, the pig will eat you, but you have to fall over first.
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Healthy lions have killed lots of people. They still do. Lions kill about 100 people a year in Tanzania alone.

...according to University of Minnesota lion expert Craig Packer. However, lionesses tend to eat people in isolated instances, then return to their normal diet, while males “are more likely to become recidivists,” Packer says. The worst-case scenario, he says, is when a whole pride of males and females starts feeding on people: these lions are the most “persistent” threat to their human neighbors.

The Man-Eaters of Njombe
The most prolific of the man-eaters, this pride of 15 claimed hundreds of lives—perhaps as many as 1,500—of lives between 1932 and 1947 in southern Tanzania.

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/scien...man-eating-lions-2577288/#yJKMvViIpLqp211q.99
 
Once bigfoot finally learn to aim their rocks better, they'll hit fewer cabins and more of the tasty-looking humans.
 
Nope. Those have rather metallic taste. Especially the feet, which have a strong iron flavor.

Humans, on the other hand, taste like pig. So, be careful!

In some of North America's darkest recesses, where the living fear to tread, the hairy giants still walk. These Sasquatchs feel no pain or remorse... and deserve no mercy.
 
This is the guy that humans are ignoring when he comes around the cabin.
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rockinkt said:
Bit of nit-pic...
Healthy lions have killed lots of people. They still do. Lions kill about 100 people a year in Tanzania alone.
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While predators do go for humans, it's not a common thing at all.

My favorite theory on why that might be is that animals tend to judge size by height - bipedal humans look a heck of a lot bigger than we really are, and predators in general would rather miss a meal than get a serious, life-threatening injury.

Some cases seem to involve jogging in national forests. Might as well cover yourself with barbecue sauce.
 
The greater mystery is why both Bigfoot threads that are lively right now have references to misfits songs.
 
LTC8K6 said:
This would certainly have been going on in the past.

Today, you'd think there'd be so much money paid for a bigfoot body, that people would turn at least some of it in. :)
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You have no idea how good bbq bigfoot w/ some NW sauce is. Besides bigfoot is a free food on Weight Watchers.
 
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John Nowak said:
My favorite theory on why that might be is that animals tend to judge size by height - bipedal humans look a heck of a lot bigger than we really are, and predators in general would rather miss a meal than get a serious, life-threatening injury.
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Lions hunt, kill and eat giraffes.
 
Is it so hard to belief that Bigfoot, being a semi-advanced hominid being, could be practicing its own religious dietary laws?

'Thou shall not eat thy plantigrade brother'
 
LTC8K6 said:
A human should look like a easy meal to a bigfoot, then.
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Right, although again pretending to take the subject seriously, perhaps we remind them too much of juvenile bigfoots. If a "moral" stance of "don't eat someone else's kids" strikes you as too anthropomorphic, perhaps it's just a concern that an upset mama bigfoot isn't something you want to deal with.
 
John Nowak said:
Right, although again pretending to take the subject seriously, perhaps we remind them too much of juvenile bigfoots. If a "moral" stance of "don't eat someone else's kids" strikes you as too anthropomorphic, perhaps it's just a concern that an upset mama bigfoot isn't something you want to deal with.
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If we remind them of juvenile bigfoots, then there should be a lot more interaction and a lot less fear on their part.
 
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