Moderated Bigfoot- Anybody Seen one?

[bipto]

The amount of caloric intake for creatures of this size must be enormous. Given that - do you have any evidence of foraging or predatory action that does not fit the known animals in the area?

That's a huge question for us. The amount of energy they expend interacting with us is presumably significant. That said, no, we haven't observed any evidence of predatory activity or foraging that I'm aware of.

 

[Jodie]

Did the legs have any flexion at the knee while doing the scissor type walk?

 

[William Parcher]

Yes, we've found cameras that have been tampered with. They will sometimes show that they're being moved, but none of them have captured pictures of what's moving them. These are always cameras that can be fiddled with from behind.

The Bigfoots are not afraid of trail cameras. They are afraid of the front side of trail cameras.

 

[OntarioSquatch]

That's how intelligent they are

 

[Jodie]

OS, my brother's dog avoids cameras because my daughter used to dress it in doll clothes and take pictures. Now his dog associates the camera with what it perceives as torture. It does not take superior intelligence to learn to avoid something unpleasant.

 

[Drewbot]

She was referring to seeing their legs "scissor" back and forth. As in, two legs moving in opposite directions as a means of locomotion.

As opposed to knuckles on ground and both rear feet moving together?

 

[William Parcher]

That's how intelligent they are

Let's see how you do in that department.

Intelligent about what? Intelligent because they obviously know that a photo could lead to scientific confirmation of their existence?

Or intelligent because they think it's going to kill them if they walk in front of it?

Or what?

 

[William Parcher]

OS, my brother's dog avoids cameras because my daughter used to dress it in doll clothes and take pictures. Now his dog associates the camera with what it perceives as torture. It does not take superior intelligence to learn to avoid something unpleasant.

What was the unpleasantry that was brought upon that dog by the camera?

 

[William Parcher]

What was the unpleasantry that was brought upon that dog by the camera?

Here, I'll finish the story for you. The dog didn't like the flash or maybe a mechanical sound or some other thing that the camera did. Then the dog becomes upset whenever it see the camera because it "knows" that the bad experience is probably coming back again. But look what happens when you transfer that to Bigfoot...

Bigfoot hates the flash of a trail cam whether it be infrared or just plain old visible light flash, or it just hates whatever the camera does. Bigfoot hates what trail cameras do when they take their picture. Bigfoot learns to avoid trailcameras after they have already taken their picture. Hello. Goodbye.

If Bigfoots are universally avoiding trail cameras because they do not like what they do then there must already be hundreds or thousands of photos of Bigfoot on trail cams.... some with their face right up there and no mistaking a genuine creature. But no.

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Edited for civility.

 

[William Parcher]

The cabin is close to the slope, but not close enough for the rocks to simply tumble down and impact the roof. Also, the slope's a slope, not a cliff. It's not that dramatic. We hear the rocks impacting leaves and branches on the way down before they hit the roof. On the show I'm recording today, I'll be playing a nice recording of exactly that along with some new throwing behavior.

This must have driven Native Americans crazy. I wonder if the classic teepee shape was chosen to deflect rocks and stuff thrown by Bigfoot. Some of the Indian villages are thousands of years old. They must have accumulated enormous quantities of rocks that had been thrown at them by Bigfoots over millennia.

 

[Jodie]

What was the unpleasantry that was brought upon that dog by the camera?

It hated being dressed in costumes so you had to be quick getting a pic. It sees the camera and assumes we are going to put clothes on it, I assume.....

 

[Resume]

We saw them.

So them as in more than one, and saw as in no doubt as to what you saw (bigfoot)?

 

[Jodie]

This must have driven Native Americans crazy. I wonder if the classic teepee shape was chosen to deflect rocks and stuff thrown by Bigfoot. Some of the Indian villages are thousands of years old. They must have accumulated enormous quantities of rocks that had been thrown at them by Bigfoots over millennia.

I'm surprised you exist, I would think your ancestors would have been prime candidates to run the gauntlet.

 

[tsig]

Let's see how you do in that department.

Intelligent about what? Intelligent because they obviously know that a photo could lead to scientific confirmation of their existence?

Or intelligent because they think it's going to kill them if they walk in front of it?

Or what?

It'll steal their spirit. Bigfoot is very protective of their spirits, they're afraid the footers will drink them.

 

[Drewbot]

Yes their isn't Pavlovs Dog thing going on with BF and cameras. The BF would have to be photographed hundreds of times in order to condition them. There would have to be a negative reinforcement to go along with all these photos as well. Like an electric shock every time one gets photographed.

 

[Jodie]

More than likely hoaxers took or messed up the cameras.

So if you don't go so far as to speculate that they are as intelligent as humans, or can learn anything faster than a dog could, or don't communicate complex problems amongst themselves, then instinctive fear is all that is left.

 

[The Shrike]

Well if I was a decent skeptic Jodie I'd now be challenging you to prove that those cameras were tampered with by hoaxers.

Can't prove it? Okay then, good for the gander as well: Your "hoaxer did it" hypothesis has the identical probability as bipto's "bigfoot did it" hypothesis.

 

[bipto]

So them as in more than one, and saw as in no doubt as to what you saw (bigfoot)?

Several of our members, including three others in the team I was a part of, have had clear visuals of more than one animal, based on size and color seen. There were two in incident I was a part of.

 

[William Parcher]

The hoaxers always seem to stay away from the "front side" of the cameras when they move or tamper with them? How do the hoaxers always "know" and never get their picture taken by accident?

 

[bipto]

With regard to cameras being avoided or tampered with, I don't have an explanation for you, but as I've said, other animals have been observed avoiding cameras.