Explore the limestone caves of the Pacific Northwest, for paleontological evidence of Primates. The Sasquatch population is most likely not as large as that of the Mountain Gorilla.

Possible. There has been some statistical analysis done in the quest to determine “how many” there are.

Assumptions: The range of these animals would be set as all of North America. They have life spans and reproduction cycles similar to those of the Mountain Gorilla and other Great Apes. They are Migratory in nature. As Sasquatch is believed to be predatory, there would have to be a relationship between things like deer population vs. Sasquatch population, but taking into consideration other large predators such as bear and human depredations on said deer population, etc…

Given these Assumptions, the analysts calculated that in order to maintain a viable gene pool and still have enough food/range to go around, there could be as few as 4,000 individuals, or as many as 10,000, depending on the analyst, focusing mainly along the Appalachian chain from Georgia into Canada, along major waterways (Mississippi/Missouri/Ohio/Cumberland river areas), the Northwestern area of the country (again, large water sources, rugged terrain, beaucoup food sources, etc…) extending again north into Canada, and running east and west from there ( imagine a large “fishhook” with the eye located along the Florida/Georgia border running north into Canada and hooking around the Great Lakes, with a mirror image running from northern California through Washington state and hooking east into Canada, and take all the points between the two barbs…that would be the “theoretical” range of the largest part of the population of these animals).

Eastern Ohio would be the place I would pin my hopes when determining if Sasquatch is migratory, as it is from data gathered in that area that the idea was raised. Looking back over the last 30 years or so, it has been noted that the vast majority of reported sightings and vocalizations attributed to this animal seem to spike sharply in the late autumn and early spring. While these could be argued away as the normal behaviours of hybernational animals, the fact that the sightings do not disappear completely in the winter and summer months suggests otherwise.

Explore the limestone caves of the Pacific Northwest, for paleontological evidence of Primates. The Sasquatch population is most likely not as large as that of the Mountain Gorilla.

I really think the key to getting evidence supporting the existence is understanding the creature better than we do now, so that field researchers can do better at predicting where it’ll be over a longer time scale than we’re used to for other animals, but we have to accept that we might be talking about a time scale of years, if the creature’s territory is as extended as its impressive walking ability would indicate.

Numerous encounter reports refer to just the camouflage ability you’re talking about.

I found one of a juvenile (Warren County, NY, on the BFRO website; look for the “Deer Leap” sighting) particularly interesting, as it seems to show an ability directly related to what appears to be a tree-climbing proclivity among young sas, and the ability to hide even in a tree with no covering foliage. Big ones have been interpreted by observers to do a “freeze” in an apparent effort to avoid detection by a passing vehicle.

I agree with you that when one is discovered it frequently isn’t too concerned about that fact, particularly if it perceives the individual involved as no threat. (I think they’re better at making this call than, say, bears or deer.) I also think that inattentive ones get surprised; and so far that hasn’t seemed to remove any from the gene pool.

dogu4/mystery_man:

Nomadism, indeed. In fact, the thing that made me realize that continent-wide sas sightings could be reflective of a natural phenomenon and not hoaxes or wishful thinking, as I originally thought, was my strong suspicion that anything this big, this active, and this focused on avoiding human contact would have to keep moving a lot to both find sufficient calories at all seasons (and avoid exhausting the resources of a restricted area) and avoid detection to the maximum practical extent. The more I thought about it, the more implausible it seemed that the sas was a “regional monster” restricted to the Pacific Northwest. Indeed, other habitat concentrations suggested by the anecdotal evidence seem to be just where an expert, asked to speculate, might place them.

Yet another reason I consider the anecdotal evidence for this animal the most compelling - a slant apparently contrary to most.

That raven concept is one that I do think could work. While living in Alaska I was always keeping my eye peeled for the opportunity to develop a larcenous relationship with a steller jay or a raven. Those little cameras are always getting smaller and better.

Undoubtedly a more legal and scientifically acceptable,and very expensive method would be to use my idea to apply large field blink interferometry, and then use those results for their predictive potential.

On the other hand, even if a tiny handful of pixels from the lowest quality security cam from kmart, behaved in a way that allowed us to predict the behaviour of the blob we think is acting like a BF, then the quality of the image is irrelevant.

Dogu4: Perhaps you are right. Given the special nature of the SAS and the fact they are not photogenic. We’ll have to work around technical short comings. We are dealing with a very unusual creature who somehow managed to elude our zoological books since the beginning of civilization. Until we find a better way to document the SAS we’ll just have to do with what’s available currently.