Bipto has stated he would not have believed such a story as he tells now if he had read it at the old BFF. He shouldn't be peeved, then, to find folks doubting his story now.
I was surprised to find an ambiguous story instead of one with more substance. Maybe the TBRC has cam photos, hair samples, clear trackways, etc. that will be released later. But right now, Bipto's account is weak: at no point do we have phenomena unmistakably attributable to apes.
We have inferences based on what Bigfoot field researchers believe and not based on what they can show. There is a growing mythology about Bigfoot manufactured by believers, from the midtarsel break to mimicry. Now, with the TBRC, we can see new myths forming, such as the invisible Bigfoot, so able to blend in with the terrain that you cannot see two giant apes only feet away, even if you are looking straight at them. This will add to the mystique of the lore, as well as provide a new handy-dandy skeptic refuting answer as to why we can't find the things.
Here is some arm-chair quarterbacking. Why not have dogs? No doubt a coon hound, or even a little rat terrier, would have alerted the team that they had something in the bush before their sighting. If Ms. Strain was so concerned that something was in the bush, why not have a strategy other than to just ask hubby to peek? (On the other hand, if she really thought it probable a dangerous monster ape was in the bush, why ask hubby to go so close and look?)
Why researcher inactivity whenever they are in a cabin and it is being belted by nuts and rocks? Bipto's last night was marked by nuts hitting the side of the cabin. This narrows the direction from which the nut throwing is coming. You know the nuts are being tossed by somebody's hand. If human, the culprit is close enough to possibly overtake strategically? (And if it is an ape, you have shown that you won't run into it anyway, so have no fear.)
I suggested at BFF that if TBRC really believes it is dealing with apes, why not place large mirrors throughout the area, near trail-cams. No one commented. Primates are known to find their mirrored image fascinating. I saw a video somewhere of a couple of baboons at a dump-site that found a hand-mirror; they were transfixed. I've seen a gorilla at the zoo stare at his own image reflecting in plate-glass. And even aboriginal peoples are very much taken with their image, when initially exposed to mirrors. And we civilized types have mirrors everywhere. Yes, I think if there really are apes in Oklahoma, mirrors will prove fatal to their unverifiability.
What to make of their sighting? Bipto admits that what he saw he would not have interpreted as a Wood Ape if he had been alone. And do we have another myth in the making with a bend-at-the-waist, arms-tucked-in, form of locomotion? In truth, no one appears to have seen what would be identifiable as an ape if not for shared expectations. Since the sighting took only seconds from beginning to end, I doubt if anyone could discern duck feet, tucked-in arms, etc. In cases like this, imagination fills in the blanks.
I initially thought "bear," but Bipto is very clear in that what he saw was no bear. Actually, he even flirted with a supernatural explanation because the things moved too gracefully and too rapidly for any mammal he can think of.
May a clue to the possible identity (of the things seen) be found in the notion that mammals just don't move in this way? I have an idea, but to mention it would invite ridicule. And as Bigfooters are always complaining about ridicule, I'll concede their point, conveniently of course.
