Bears gain weight during the season and it's been shown they don't stay in deep hibernation all winter. It would be nice if you'd stop assuming.
So, I should stop assuming but you and the footers can continue to assume and make wild baseless speculations and claims...
What´s this supposed to prove? Gorillas do stand up sometimes, as do bears. But both species do not rely on bipedal locomotion for long distances.
There have been many reports of them feeding on everything from fish to Willow leaves, but since you dismiss all eyewitness accounts, I don't suppose that means anything to you. ...snip...
I will say again, If sighting reports were reliable evidence, then there are reliable evidence for UFOs and ghosts.
And last time I checked, I am not the only one who don´t trust this sort of "evidence".
Beer habitat? Isn't that mostly in taverns?
Add bars, pubs, restaurant and similar.
Seems there's some good evidence from some areas outside the PNW. As I've explained, I know more about the PNW than other areas and it has the best evidence, so far. It also seems to have the largest population. I don't see why you think it's biased for me to stick with what I know.
Because the species´ geographic range -assuming it exists- is much broader than PNW. Because within this area there is an environmental diversity larger than the one you claim to know. Because you can´t be sure that the largest bigfeet population (assuming they exist) is located at PNW. I could go on but I think that´s enough for now.
It's suggested that the mostly nocturnal lifestyle evolved to avoid competition with bears. Hasn't this been mentioned before?
It would be nice if you would stop assuming.
Not to mention that the american black bear are also active at night.
http://wonderclub.com/Wildlife/mammals/american_black_bear.html
http://wildlife.state.co.us/Education/LivingWithWildlife/BearCountry.asp
Ever seen those videos of bears searching for food in cities at night?
Elk and deer share habitat and eat the same stuff, but neither seem to be in any danger of extinction.
Do they occupy the same ecological niche? Are you sure their feeding habits are the same? They feed on the very same types of plants?
The crest is evidently an adaptation for large chewing muscles, but it's been shown that Chimpanzees eat and relish meat when they can get it. Sagittal crests are associated with massive dentition and don't necessarily indicate an exclusively vegetarian diet.
"A. boisei, the East African robust form, is thought to have descended from A. aethiopicus. This species exhibits a hyper-robust morphology, with exaggerated features similar in kind to those of A. aethiopicus, but far greater in degree. The massive dentition is coupled with a sagittal crest; increased dishing of the face, or orthognathism, characterizes these forms. This reduction in postnasal facial projection probably came as a result of increased demands to combat masticatory forces. Specimens include OH 5 and KNM-ER 406, among others. Whereas earlier interpretations of their dental specialization offered dietary shifts (e.g., consuming a tougher, lower quality diet), recent analyses of dental microwear suggest that A. boisei incorporated a diverse range of foods in its diet."
http://www.wwnorton.com/college/anthro/bioanth/ch11/chap11.htm
Have bigfeet investigators managed to get any data on bigfeet´s teeth? Teeth cast?
If bigfeet -assuming they exist- share the same feeding profile as the larger australopithecines species - that may have not been completely vegetarian but feeded mostly on plants- they could have crests. However, the feeding profile of bigfeet -assuming they exist- inferred from very reliable evidence (that was sarcasm) that are sighting reports, includes a lot of non-plant material. Fish, hogs, rodents, bug larvae, etc. Thus, there is no need for such a large crest to sustain the large muscles needed for continuous chewing od plants to break down fibrae.
It doesn't look especially fat. She looks solid all over, but she may be heavier than the average female. She appears mature. It's been suggested she was recently pregnant. All-over weight gain is common in pregnancy. Ask any known bipedal hominid with children.
"Looks", "may", "appears" and "suggested". Sheer speculations to explain inconsistencies in Patty´s anatomy. That are easilly solved by admitting its just bloke in a suit.
It amazes me how you people will accept the most absurd rationalisations to support the hoax hypothesis rather than examining the evidence to see where it leads.
It amazes me the absurd speculations made by footers to support the hypothesis that Patty is not a bloke in a suit.
Real guys in suits, including Charlie Gemorra with Bela Lugosi. Short, wasn't he?
http://www.bigfootforums.com/index.php?showtopic=7667&st=20
Check the two in the lower left corner. Look quite like Patty, heh? Specially the one standing besides Lee Major. A footer would see muscles in the bigfeet from the following pics: Second from left to right on the first three lines, and the first from left to right at the fourth line.
IM and torso/waist indexes are clearly non-human for these pictures, also. And I can see the toes on the feet of the creatures from the second pic from left to right (first line) and in those from the third and fourth pics (from left to right) of the last line. Who would bother making such level of detail?
No one could make such suits with current FX technology!
Note how the feet overlap.....
