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The Valley of the Wood Apes

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The Shrike said:
My batteries seem to last forever and I get all kinds of awesomeness showing up on my cameras.
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Maybe Brian or Kathy or Brandon could explain why they don't use trail cams. But I swear they said it was because of the hassle of changing the batteries.
 
The Shrike said:
My batteries seem to last forever and I get all kinds of awesomeness showing up on my cameras.
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But have you named the location in which you operate "Area X?" You need to call it Area X for batteries and cameras to stop working.
 
Garrette said:
But have you named the location in which you operate "Area X?" You need to call it Area X for batteries and cameras to stop working.
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Okay, I'll try that then.

Seriously though, I bought some bargain-basement cameras for one of our projects and they work great and last for weeks. I only installed some at my house 'cause we finished the project and there was still so much battery life left on a bunch of 'em that I didn't want them sitting idle with batteries loaded.

I've photographed some "rods" (overexposed insects close to lens), deer sticking their tongues out, a couple of birds at my feeders that I still haven't seen at my place "live", raccoons, coyotes, gamboling gray foxes, etc. How bigfoot couldn't get caught on a game cam is beyond me.
 
The Shrike said:
Okay, I'll try that then.

Seriously though, I bought some bargain-basement cameras for one of our projects and they work great and last for weeks. I only installed some at my house 'cause we finished the project and there was still so much battery life left on a bunch of 'em that I didn't want them sitting idle with batteries loaded.

I've photographed some "rods" (overexposed insects close to lens), deer sticking their tongues out, a couple of birds at my feeders that I still haven't seen at my place "live", raccoons, coyotes, gamboling gray foxes, etc. How bigfoot couldn't get caught on a game cam is beyond me.
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There is an answer from both the proponents and the skeptics. The reader is left to judge for himself or herself with which one Sir Ockham is more likely to shave. Or which one is more likely to appear in a journal and which more likely to be a Reader's Digest Joke of the Week.
 
If you have lots of animal pictures on your trail camera it may be because Bigfoot is driving them towards it in order to deplete the batteries. Also if you have few animal pictures it could be because Bigfoot is scaring them away or eating them.

If you don't see any pictures of Bigfoot then it's a pretty good indication that Bigfoot is around.
 
CORed said:
Perhaps bigfeets and wood apes have a supernatural ability to discharge camera batteries.
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I've seen it seriously suggested that bigfoot generates some sort of energy field that drains camera batteries or prevents cameras from working properly, hence the lack of photos of bigfoot.

That and/or bigfoot is super duper clever and knows how to avoid trail cameras which is why he is never snapped by one.
 
Here's what the bigfoot brainiacs think about game cams.
http://sasquatchresearchers.org/blo...4/11/17/bigfoot-trail-cam-avoidance-theories/
My favorite:
7. They are acutely aware of anything going on in their environment. They see the installations and are intelligent enough to teach one another about trail cams. It is widely believed that sasquatches have language and thus might discuss these devices and secretly observe humans while they set up their camouflaged trail cams.
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Yep, footie sits around the campfire, telling stupid human stories, eating filched Good-N-Plenties.

Also, these geniuses:
http://bigfootforums.com/index.php?...roject-how-do-they-miss-the-bigfoots/&page=85
DWA said:
And as always at the frontiers of science...99 out of 100 scientists don't even know what's going on.

(There are a lot more sasquatch than there are wolverines. Evidence says so.)
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ETA: Then there is the groundbreaking thought at the SRA:
http://sasquatchresearchers.org/forums/index.php?/topic/257-sasquatch-trail-cam-avoidance-theories/
This is why I think we will only succeed with cameras if we make a "pact" with them that makes them feel they can tolerate our cameras.
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I would like to make a pact with bigfooters in which we agree to discuss verifiable, non-******** bigfoot evidence. I understand this will be a short conversation.
 
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LTC8K6 said:
Wait a minute. Wasn't bigfoot stupid enough to walk into an active tracking device a little while ago?
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A tracking device placed by the world's most incompetent bigfoot hunters, which is a field heavy with competition.
 
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Tolls said:
Well, it stands to reason.
Since they know BF exists, and there are lots and lots of them, and they never get snapped on trail cams, then they have to be able to spot them and avoid them.

Footer logic 101.
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It seems that several fringe beliefs have to invent properties for the thing they believe in, in order to try and explain away the lack of rigorous evidence for the thing they're proposing exists. UFO anti-gravity drives make photos blurry, ghosts drain camera batteries, skeptics negative psychic energy makes tests of psychic powers fail, etc.

The lack of concrete evidence isn't taken as indicative that the thing doesn't exist, it merely means that the thing must have some amazing property that prevents the concrete evidence from existing.
 
JesseCuster said:
The lack of concrete evidence isn't taken as indicative that the thing doesn't exist, it merely means that the thing must have some amazing property that prevents the concrete evidence from existing.
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Bigfoot has a laundry list of amazing properties depending on the amount of crazy/credulity you want to invoke.
 
Captain_Swoop said:
Amazing.
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It's even more so when you consider that they evolved the ability to avoid being captured on camera in the complete absence of negative selective pressure from having been photographed. Not only would bigfoots have no way to determine what a camera is, they'd have no reason to perceive a camera as "bad."
 
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