Bigfoot on Indian Reservation

Apology said:
I left out cholera. Any humanoid who drinks water is susceptible to cholera. There was a big cholera epidemic in the 1850s, so that would have gotten them.

There's also dysentery, giardia (there are still outbreaks of giardia from drinking tap water, even with modern sewage treatment and water facilities), and gastroenteritis (H1N1 is waterborne). No need for social contact when all Bigfoot would have to do is drink from contaminated streams.

There's also vermin-borne illnesses, such as malaria, yellow fever, hanta virus, and bubonic plague (bubonic plague is still alive and well, it's just treatable by antibiotics, something that Bigfoot would not have access to). Presumably Bigfoot is no better at avoiding mosquitoes and rodents than man is. Bigfoot would probably be more susceptible.

Here's a timeline of epidemics in history, many of which affected the United States. If Bigfoot were to exist in small isolated pockets in remote areas of the US, the way that the legend says, there's just no way that one of these virulent epidemics wouldn't have managed to make its way into the Bigfoot population. If the population is really that small, it would only take one of these epidemics to completely wipe them out.

Remember, an epidemic doesn't have to kill every last one, it just has to reduce the population enough that they're no longer able to maintain a minimum viable population. The Bigfoot legend as it's told today already suggests that there aren't enough Bigfeet to maintain a minimum viable population. If Bigfoot existed, he'd probably be pretty horribly inbred, leading to congenital defects and a much higher rate of infant mortality, which would also help Bigfoot shuffle off this mortal coil.

Bigfoot never stood a chance again homo sapiens.
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Why don't other animals die from this?
 
Jodie said:
Why don't other animals die from this?
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They do; the other animals are just present in higher numbers than Bigfoot's purportedly small, isolated numbers, so they don't go extinct. If the animals can maintain the minimum viable population, they continue to breed, replace their dead with new births, and they don't die out. In my original post about disease and extinction, I talked about small tribes of humans that weren't able to maintain their minimum viable population and died out. Bigfoot's reported population would be equivalent to a small tribe of creatures rather than a very large population such as homo sapiens as a whole.

In addition, since Bigfoot is supposed to be closely related to homo sapiens (and in some tales, hybrid with homo sapiens), Bigfoot presumably would be susceptible to most, if not all, of these diseases which killed humans off like flies.

Monkeys and great apes will die if exposed to a lot of these diseases. There are more than a handful of monkeys and great apes, though, so even if their numbers are lowered, they're still able to rebuild their populations (although great apes are in great danger of extinction right now). A lot of them will kill dogs, cats, horses, and deer too. Dysentery is pretty much an equal-opportunity destroyer and kills nearly every creature it infects. A lot of animals that carry these diseases also suffer from them and die after passing them along, such as avian flu. The squirrels in the Los Angeles mountains that are carrying bubonic plague are also infected by it.

I'm sorry I got lazy on this post and didn't include links to how/what animals die from what diseases. :blush: Some of these diseases will skip from species to species, for instance, killing birds but not killing bears, and others, like dysentery, will kill them all and let God sort them out.
 
"Bigfoot live there first, Medina built right on his Migration pattern, bigfoot still use migration route, many Bigfoots have died and been buried by Bigfoots, we try to avoid man, but can't resist looking in mobile home window under quarter moon, we is mezmerized by late-night infomercials."

Sincerely,
Ohio 'Class A' Bigfoot
 
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Many of those roads are 45 mph speed limit , some 50/55. Apparently the BFRO thinks it's Class A credible that bigfoot exists here.

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Actually the prime class-A habitat is a little lower to the right, even closer to the city of Wadsworth. I read it as I-71, not I-76. This is even more ridiculous of course, because Wadsworth is fairly decent sized city (relatively speaking... depends where you're from I guess) of 21,000. Again, nearly all the roads surrounding it are 45 mph or higher, and receive a healthy amount of traffic, from people such as the person who filed the report, who travels through there to and from work.

You make an interesting point. Why isnt it treated like professional wrestling? I don't waste time trying to talk sense into someone who thinks that that is real. So why do Bigfoot believers feel compelled to justify their belief, some cases even demand legitimacy, to the rest of the world that is attached to reality? Why can't they just enjoy it for what it is, like WWF fans do? How is Meldrum still employed?
 
Maybe it's not really Bigfoot, maybe they're really seeing trolls that live under the I-71 underpass bridges :D
 
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