Comments on: Things Continue Crypto-Weird

By: Loren Coleman

Loren Coleman — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 03:04:49 +0000

During the tour of the museum and in textual material posted at the museum, the items used to create the replica of the Bigfoot are noted. That does not prevent, however, people in the media from incorrectly reporting that the Bigfoot is covered in “oxen hair” or other wrong animal material, as opposed to domesticated musk oxen fur.

By: red_pill_junkie

red_pill_junkie — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 02:00:17 +0000

My advice would be to include a little sign with all that info about the musk oxen close to the Big Guy’s display, Loren.

…On second though: forget that. Nothing wrong with having free publicity provided by willing & healthy female activists

By: Loren Coleman

Loren Coleman — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 00:32:58 +0000

The "Crookston Bigfoot" is covered in legal, tanned hides of two musk oxen, domesticated animals who were harvested or died of natural deaths, on a musk oxen farm. Even the Inuit-hunted animals are not subject to CITES, for musk oxen are not endangered but the harvest is limited greatly each year. The animals are hunted and eaten by First Peoples living a subsistence life style, and the Inuit, Eskimo and other Native processed furs are sometimes used by taxidermists. Musk oxen (Ovibos moschatus) are not cattle, and are closely related to sheep and goats. They have a thick coat of fur with an undercoat that assists them with surviving in the cold Arctic. The species Ovibos moschatus was a member of the landscape of the Pleistocene and thus a contemporary of the mammoth (Mammuthus). And perhaps Sasquatch/Bigfoot!

By: mystery_man

mystery_man — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 23:44:33 +0000

This may be a weird question, but what kind of fur exactly is on that Bigfoot?

I always can’t help imagining how many shag carpets had to die to cover that thing.

By: onihunter

onihunter — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 21:51:32 +0000

It’s great to see the ICM getting good publicity. And respesct.