“DWA, bears den up in the coldest weather, behavior not found in any primate I know of. I guess that leaves Bigfoot no other choice but to migrate. Any thoughts on that?”

Good point. Worth discussing.

There are a couple of species of monkeys that spend winters in places most any of us would consider extremely cold. But they do live in forests; and they do have food (even if it’s mainly twigs and bark). Anything living above the northern tree line has to either dig in, or leave. Or…well, hunt (like the polar bear) or eat what there is (like the muskox).

Now. Read this about the Madagascan fat-tailed dwarf lemurs, the only mammal – and a primate – known to estivate (the summer equivalent of hibernation).

Keep in mind that every animal is unique in some way. If we have a temperate (Arctic) primate here, it is going to have survival strategies that vary from those of, say, orangs and chimps, in the same way the polar bear’s do from the sun bear’s.

They could follow the caribou herds; they could do what bears do; there could be an option 3.

Until we confirm the animal’s simple presence, though, we aren’t going to know.

These people ARE experts, more than any ivory-towered doubter is…

Don’t superimpose Lower 48 motivations on Alaska hunters.

As J. Robert Alley, the author of Raincoast Sasquatch, one of the essential books on this topic, once said: anyone seen carrying a camera in AK is announcing his unfamiliarity with the place.

And I wouldn’t even bother going for a camera phone for any bigfoot sighting I have read about – and I have read hundreds – because I simply would not get a decent shot. Here is about the best situation for a camera-phone photo that I have read… and you see what they got.

Ten feet tall and bipedal rules out bears. Plus, bears simply can’t be confused with sasquatch. They can’t. To simply presume that out of hand is unwarranted. It’s much more likely for someone to see a sasquatch, and presume bear. People fill in unknowns with knowns, basic human nature. Not the other way around.

Interesting enough at least that I’m reading the whole article.

There are some pretty northerly sasquatch observations. If you can get black and grizzly bears at this latitude – and you do – why not?

I too am skeptical about these kinds of reports, but you also need to remember Alaska isn’t like most places in the US. It’s remote, if these people have to hunt to eat, they don’t necessarily have cell phones or cameras at easy access, they may not even be able to reach civilization unless they drive some time. Also, what sort of cultural background are they from? Maybe they don’t value the same things western culture values. We can’t make assumptions based on our cushy houses, behind our computers with our cell phones, not everyone can afford it, especially out in the wilds of Alaska were people vanish almost on a weekly basis and frontier living is a must.

Now with that said, I’m curious. I think Alaska is one of the places with a possibility for Sasquatch or other hidden cryptids. It is largely unexplored, and has a great deal of forest. It would be nice if a team of researchers camped out in a place like this and just looked around for these animals over a few months.