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Elbe Trackway

LTC8K6 said:
Wolves and Lions work as teams as well. They hunt with great intelligence.

There's no evidence of packs of sasquatches, let alone the track covering that would require.
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They have varying degrees of success with their hunts, lions being the worst with a 27% success rate. Chimps have a 100% success rate. To me that indicates being able to problem solve quickly when the plan doesn't work out exactly and is based on more than just the instinct to hunt.

http://http://www-bcf.usc.edu/~stanford/chimphunt.html

http://www.edge.org/3rd_culture/myhrvold_lions07/myhrvold_lions07_index.html

The point I was trying to make was not to underestimate the intelligence of our known primates.

There is a chimp preserve in Africa that is enclosed by an electric fence. One female chimp learned to throw sticks at different sections to see if sparks would fly, when she reached an area that didn't, she climbed over. I think she has escaped the compound numerous times using this method.
 
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LTC8K6 said:
The IR video looks decidedly phoney.
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Why would the BBC Wildlife program fake an IR video of chimpanzee's hunting? How would you fake that anyway? People can't climb up and down trees or move through the canopy that fast. You do realize it's a birds eye view of what's going on in the canopy, don't you, or were you being sarcastic?
 
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Jodie said:
One female chimp learned to throw sticks at different sections to see if sparks would fly, when she reached an area that didn't, she climbed over. I think she has escaped the compound numerous times using this method.
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Only Velociraptors can do that.
 
Please take this to the real animals thread.

This is the thread for fake tracks of imaginary animals.
 
I had read in Stephen Herrero's book about two Biologists in Canada tracking a collared Grizzly (one on the ground, one in the air) who walked backwards in it's tracks in avoidance to the determined Biologist that was disturbing it's day nesting. The Bear used its own tracks to circle back and the Biologist wasted a few hours trying to figure out what happened until he really examined the trackway when it ended abruptly. Not that this has anything to do with imaginary tracks of imaginary animals or Chimps covering their tracks. Just a professional Biologist almost being fooled by an intelligent Bear.
 
The joy of an imaginary animal is working with a clean slate for every new "just so" speculation.

We don't have any constraints like real animals have and whatever we made up yesterday is not a constraint on what we make up today. So yesterday it can fly, today it swims, tomorrow it poops chocolate.
 
An ability to disable an electric fence by throwing branches on it and observing the sparks. Once the sparks stopped, Natasha knew the fence was disabled and then proceeded to climb it. (A typical U.S. high school student cannot figure out how to pull his pants up around his waist.)

I couldn't agree more.
 
Ouch - read that article in Natural News! It's some guy's attempt at humor followed by an anti-vax rant! This train stops at Woo City . . .
 
it's not Woo, it's true:

http://news.sciencemag.org/sciencenow/2012/08/chimps-answer-to-einstein.html

And there are many more examples of chimp "genius" over the last 12 years. She isn't the only one by far. Anyway, to tie it back to bigfoot, if they do have a better mixture of different levels of intelligence akin to chimps or greater, I can see them staying undiscovered but even they would have to leave sign. You can't always be on top of that.

http://video.nationalgeographic.com/video/animals/mammals-animals/apes/ape-genius-ani/
 
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Jodie said:
And there are many more examples of chimp "genius" over the last 12 years. She isn't the only one by far. Anyway, to tie it back to bigfoot, if they do have a better mixture of different levels of intelligence akin to chimps or greater, I can see them staying undiscovered...
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You can "see"...? A chimp with a stick makes you believe a giant primate can exist over the history of exploration, habitation, exploitation, development, hunting, forestry, mining, farming, game management, recreation, clear cutting of forests, photographic monitoring, archeology, roads, vehicles etc etc in the 400 year history of Notrh America and not leave a single biologic or photographic specimen?

Wow.
 
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Yep, you forgot to cut and paste the last part of the sentence where I essentially said the same thing in fewer words.
 
The imaginary animal has brains enough to engineer a nuclear power plant. But it can't even build a nest that takes all the brains of a bird.
 
Skeptical Greg said:
But why would she do that ?
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I think it would be a matter of necessity. I'm joking about walking backwards or making fake prints but I do think if she saw someone tracking her prints that she is smart enough to avoid leaving them or try rubbing them out.
 
Jodie said:
Why would the BBC Wildlife program fake an IR video of chimpanzee's hunting? How would you fake that anyway? People can't climb up and down trees or move through the canopy that fast. You do realize it's a birds eye view of what's going on in the canopy, don't you, or were you being sarcastic?
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The chimp movements occasionally look very fake to me. Can't prove it, but I am personally certain of it.

A giant television and movie production company can easily fake just about whatever it wants, I'd think.

My guess is that the actual chimp movements didn't look good enough and weren't quite as intelligently done as the story line needed, even though the story over all is accurate.
 
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