These creatures are very nearly human, a lot closer to us than being the “damned apes” some like to call them.

You friends are right. One troupe of these animals that resides in the area of Kiamichis near the Le Flore and McCurtain County lines poses a danger to anyone approaching them. They have good reason for their attitudes. And, like primates of all sizes, they have the ability to remember, and can especially remember individual humans.

It is only a matter of time before some unsuspecting lost and undeserving hunter catches the wrath of these animals while trying to make his way out of mountains in the darkness, and while their real targets are at home drinking beer in front of the computer.

Think this might be outlandish! Hide and watch.

But it does sort of beg the question doesn’t it? When we, as a society, finally do get around to recognizing the sasquatch as a legitimate species, what legal status will we accord them? I have to think that we will not give them any more rights than we do to chimps, bonobos or gorillas. I am not morally comfortable with that conclusion, but then neither am I morally comfortable with the legal status we accord to our other near relations. Ought we accord a special status to the sasquatch simply because he strides about in an upright stance similar to our own? I think not. All evidence indicates that the sasquatch is cognitively probably about on par with the other great apes. My thinking is that we will have to use cognition as the determining factor in how we evaluate the rights of non-human species and that if this is so, regardless of the special affinity we may feel for the sasquatch because of our shared upright form of locomotion, we cannot morally give her any more rights than we give to the other great apes.

With this said, we have to stop the conjecture about the homicide talk in regards to bigfoot.

Homicide should be called sapien-a-cide, just so everyone will shut up.

It’s called homicide because that’s what they decided to call it. That and every member of the homo genus is extinct except sapien or us. Oh, and a tiny annoying fact is homo is latin for man, not for bipedal or hairy bipedal. Don’t you just hate those little annoying facts that cant be dismissed?

The genus pan and gorilla (chimps and gorillas) are believed by some not to be actual separate genus (or geni plural?) because the two have too many physical similarities to the genus homo and should actually be apart of the genus homo along with
Homo sapien
Homo habilis
Homo rudolfensis
Homo ergaster
Homo erectus
Homo antecessor
Homo heidelbergensis,
etc etc so forth and so on.

Regardless of these folks’ feelings, they are separate because there are differences. It is accepted scientific fact that the lines are drawn where they are. This can’t be changed because some bigfooters want bigfoot to be homo so they can call it homicide if one is killed. Otherwise we would have people in prison for homicide because of killing chimps or gorillas. Some think killing these animals should be homicide anyways but that is a different conversation.

So because of the same reasons pan and gorilla are different, so will it be that what ever bigfoot is called will be for the differences. The creature may be included with a genus already established or thought extinct or a new one will be named.

Through all my confusing diatribe a simple fact remains. The subtle differences that make chimps and gorillas different than humans will make bigfoot different. Thus killing bigfoot isn’t homicide. It’s just something said by those on the no kill side of the issue.

Whatever the side of the kill no kill debate you’re on, use facts and emotional persuasion to make your case, not made up catch phrases to try to scare others to your side with half truths or things that cant be true YET.

Some day bigfoot might be Homo lost or Homo whatever the guy whose name found it is. Then you can say it’s homicide.

The whole premise of “if you killed bigfoot it would be a crime cause…” is conjecture. In some states, it is perfectly legal to kill animals not managed through hunting laws. In other states, if it isn’t managed it’s off limits. Still others have a mix where certain nuisance animals can be taken any time.

Calling it a crime because it is an endangered species is another scare tactic. No one has a clue about its numbers. What is a natural number of sustained breeding populations? Is that number more or less than the census? How do you take such a census? These questions all have to be answered BEFORE any laws can be made. Until laws are made there is no law.

Of course those who see fit to expand their view of the constitution or laws on the books or an agency’s power when it suits them can probably come up with laws that can be applied to the death of a squatch.

When people assume any law will be broken when a squatch is killed they are acting as ignorant as those who assume no law will be broken.

The end fact is no bigfoot has been proven to be exist. No behavior has been cataloged and no numbers have been calculated. Until this is done no one can say what is an endangered species a crime what isn’t a one or what should be a one.

The kill no kill debate is just that, a debate. Till a creature is captured or killed it is fantasy. Why it isn’t considered by mainstream science as at least possible is anyone’s guess. We have more evidence of the existence of these creatures than we have on almost all of the recently resurrected animals and many newly discovered ones. The simple indiscernible fact is we need a body. Living or not we need a body.

I have heard all the fantastic stories out of the kiamichi mountains, the big thicket and the PNW. All these up close encounters with aggressive creatures. They are watched hours on end and NO PROOF. All I have to say is if these things are really happening with the regularity discussed and dependability discussed, PULL YOUR HEADS OUT AND GET THE PROOF. I really get tired of the hostility received when we ask “where’s the proof?” Why did you see this animal on and off for hours and no proof? If you see them every time why no proof? The name calling and down right grouchiness returned to these questions is uncalled for. Get the film, the pics, the specimen or don’t get mad when your stories are questioned.

If real fantastic encounters are occurring in which the unseen creature is believed to be a squatch then true scientific process demands that it be listed as assumed or unknown not definitive. Doing so destroys credibility.

I’m not directing comments about the lack of proof from the encounters to any one person. I’m not calling anyone out or fronting anyone off. This said, I gotta ask some of these people how can you go out to these areas and have these encounters on purpose and forget your camera every time.

Take some advice from out friend Bill the CT bigfoot researcher. A nicer guy you will not find. He drills it into anyone who will listen. Take your camera!

* Were there other squatches nearby, possibly a female or family group, that a male would defend?

* Were your friends possibly invading a well-established habitat, a “home” area?

* Were they in an orchard, crop field or waterway, interrupting squatch(es) feeding activity?

* Had your friends been call-blasting or otherwise challenging (?) squatches?

* Were your friends radiating primate pheromones?

* Were any of your friends menstruating females?

* Were your friends armed?

In short, were there circumstances that might have triggered squatches’ macho behavior, activities that we searchers should be aware of and avoid?

Could this be the subject of another posting here on Cryptomundo?

BTW, thanks for this fascinating series!
Fuz