Comments on: Maine Tree Creature: First Blobsquatch of 2010?

By: korollocke

korollocke — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 01:37:30 +0000

Looks like the monkeys that they used to have a Jacks Pet shop in Greatfalls Montana.

By: DWA

DWA — Sun, 10 Jan 2010 22:58:26 +0000

Scrolling down from the top, before seeing anything else, as soon as the shot hit my eyes: porcupine. Slam dunk.

By: webtech88

webtech88 — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 21:39:26 +0000

I recently uploaded the video after removing it because of so much interest worldwide. Here is the new link... [The "video" on this posting has been updated to reflect this change. ~ Cryptomundo Administration.]

By: WolfGirl

WolfGirl — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 18:13:35 +0000

I’m glad I could finally help identify an unknown creature on this site.

By: wuffing

wuffing — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 22:15:20 +0000

Adrienne wrote “So the porcupine in the picture is sitting upright with it’s feet on two sides of the tree which makes it look a little funny.”

Could their deep red eyeshine give them a role in some “mothman” sightings too?

By: inbetween

inbetween — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 17:22:56 +0000

Norman-uk
Clearly this IS a porcupine, we practice a game in our family wherein each member of the family tries to spot and identify animals in our daily travels , we have been doing this for many years. My point is that after many years we can look at any given animal and based on things like relative size , posture ,location , color when possible and just how it looks overall we can very quickly identify animals correctly at a great distance accurately time after time , this photo is one that we would use those skills with and for us anyway it is CLEARLY a porcupine.

By: norman-uk

norman-uk — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 14:44:35 +0000

Adrienne

Its nice you have added more detail and imformation that produces such a positive result. Not that usual when these identification issues arise. The uncertainties mainly arose before the beautiful enlarged picture was provided by Wolfgirl, as the other enlargement on Utube only added to the mystery.

By: Adrienne

Adrienne — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 05:29:32 +0000

The link in the comments has a perfect enlarged picture of the animal. It is a porcupine without a doubt. I had one walking about in my yard for a day because he was sick. He latter died. I got close to it and was watching it to see if it was injured. I observed it for a long time. It would sit upright while eating some leaves and other things. It went over to a step put it’s front feet up on it kept his back feet on the ground and then sat down. He then put his head down on one arm on the step and put one paw on his belly. My point is their manurism is somewhat unusual if you never have noticed one before. I was a bit surprised to see him sit up and do all these things. So the porcupine in the picture is sitting upright with it’s feet on two sides of the tree which makes it look a little funny. It certainly dosn’t look like a monkey you can see it’s quills very well in the enlarged photo. They enhanced it so well you can clearly see the porcupine. Whoever thought it was photoshop or any other creature might need to take a step back and look again.

By: norman-uk

norman-uk — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 18:16:59 +0000

M-M
The picture on which this matter was based was not ‘clearly’ a porcupine it was some kind of blob which could have been a porcupine but could have been something else and the enlarged picture on Utube was even less so, in fact without straining eyes too hard it looked more ape like. It was even possible the blob was something added to the photo.

Contributers here added information, including a further and improved enlargement along with constructive ideas which made it fairly certain the picture was of a real porcupine in a real tree.

It seems to me on a cryptozoological forum this was a good job well done. It is possible this may not please some critics but it will probably appeal to more, in numbers, of others. I do not think we should encourage these critics such as dear Ben Radford whose criticisms are quite predictable.

By: proov

proov — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 08:45:22 +0000

We have these in Indiucky. It’s a baboonupine.