Dr. Jeff Meldrum is an expert on Bigfoot. He is a professor of anthropology and anatomy with expertise in the foot anatomy of primates. He was a Bigfoot skeptic until he examined some footprints from the Blue Mountains in Oregon about 15 years ago. He was so shocked by what he saw that he became a believer.
He recently gave a presentation in which he estimated that there may be 500-750 Bigfoots in North America. I think this is not a bad estimate. My own estimate would be 1000.
500-750 would be enough for a reproductive population. There are only 300 wolverines in North America, and they reproduce.
Bigfoots are long-lived, living up to 35-40 years. They invest heavily in their young. The young live with the parents until they are 8-10 years old. They exist in small family units. Bigfoots are apex predators similar to grizzly bears. They have few if any known enemies other than man. Even Black bears are terrified of them.
Bigfoots are cautious, sure-footed and do not injure easily. Their proclivity to diseases is unknown. They are occasionally killed by cars and hunters, but that’s about it. A number were reportedly killed in the Mt. St. Helens eruption.
Since Bigfoots are long-lived, invest heavily in offspring and are infrequently killed, it stands to reason that a small population could subsist over a large area for a long period of time. After all, look how long Homo sapiens has existed on Earth. Nothing has killed us off yet either. Highly intelligent species which are apex predators can show great persistence.
Dr. John Bindernagel has a PhD in wildlife biology and is also a believer in Bigfoot. He recently saw one in Kentucky. He estimates that there are up to 4,000 Bigfoots in North America. There are problems with the larger estimate. If there were 4,000, would we not see them and encounter them more often?
Chris Noel, a sometimes gullible research who is an expert on so-called Bigfoot habitations, where individuals develop a close relationship with a group of Bigfoots, feels that there are up to 100,000 Bigfoots in North America. This strikes me as insane. That’s way too many. That’s one Bigfoot for every 10 Black bears. Can’t be. Daniel Perez has also said that there are 100,000 Bigfoots in North America.
Dr. Grover Krantz, the late famous anthropologist, estimated that there was 1 Bigfoot for every 1,000 Black bears. There are an incredible 1 million Black bears in North America. That gives us 1,000 Bigfoots, which was my estimate. However, Krantz also said that he thought there were 2,000 Bigfoots in the Pacific Northwest alone.
The Bigfoot Researchers Organization estimates that there are 2,000-6,000 Bigfoots in North America.
An estimate of 500-1,000 Bigfoots solves numerous problems, such as the fact that they are infrequently seen and have somehow avoided scientific discovery up until now. A Bigfoot is much smarter than any animal in the forest. They know all about traps and never get caught in them. They even avoid trail cameras for the most part, because the cameras give off a low frequency sound that humans can’t hear. However, I have seen two decent trail cam pictures of possible Bigfoots. There are quite a few purported trail cam photos of Bigfoots, but many of them are questionable.
Yet no one has found a single skeleton or fossil of any great primate that migrated to N. America.
That is the Bigfoot is an ape theory. I agree that is it ridiculous. Of course it is. No apes are in the fossil record of the Americas.
The latest theory is that Bigfoot is simply a man, in the genus Homo, like humans. This theory solves the problem you bring up.
If that is the case, and I think it is, we have been finding skeletons and bones all along. Some are even in university collections. As the East was being cleared for agriculture, many skeletons of giants were found. We even found some in the West, skeletons, mummies and skulls. One was found right here in Yosemite National Park. Some were found during the Gold Rush in the Sierras.
A number of Bigfoot bodies have been found or BF’s have been shot by hunters, mostly a while back. In some cases, the bodies simply decomposed, or the hunters left them in the woods or buried them under rocks. In 16 different cases, people have observed BF’s burying their dead.
We also found some skulls and gave them to universities, but the universities then lost them or sent them back with a shrug and a laugh. In some cases, the universities said they were “Indians.” This is because BF’s skull looks like a man. UCLA has a BF skull lost in storage. A British Colombia museum has a BF jaw somewhere in storage.
In one case, Berkeley sent the finder a memo saying congratulations for finding a new species, but the professors did not want to go through the hassle and controversy of formally identifying it. A BF tooth was found in the Santa Cruz mountains.
Melba Ketchum, who is sequencing BF DNA, has a BF bone (I think femur?) and the Santa Cruz tooth.
Is the quality of this blog declining? I think reading this blog is starting to make me stupid.
So, reading speculative science articles and observvations is now “making you stupid”? lol
Of course, the BF posts are for you skeptics too. You’re part of the intended audience.
Yea, you were really throwing me off with all the Big Foot posts but I get it now.
I believe there are UFOs that the goverment knows about but keeps the information hidden from the peasants people.
I believe in UFO’s too.
Robert, can you enlighten us about UFOs and government efforts to cover them up? I’d really like to know your position
I believe that they exist. I believe there was a UFO crash at Roswell, New Mexico, and some aliens died. The government still has these aliens in its possession and they are still studying them. As far as the rest of it, I am not sure.
I would literally kill to just have a working understanding of how they can travel between what I am assuming is different solar systems in a reasonable amount of time. I have a hobby of amateur astronomy, and the notion is truly the “holy grail” of technical knowledge.
where does this info come from? I imagine that the gov. must have this classified really deep and away from the average joe surfing the web. What about alleged alien abductions?
Here. Well, a lot of folks were sworn to secrecy on Roswell but they blew their cover anyway, a lot of them on their deathbeds. But the government says they are all lying.
About the abductions, I don’t know. ATM we just have a bunch of eyewitnesses saying they got abducted, usually recovered memories via hypnosis. Other than that, there is little if any evidence that anyone has ever been abducted. Of course, abductions are possible, but ATM we don’t have good evidence that any of them have actually occurred.
Here is the answer to the tile of this post: ZERO
tile? hmm. title.
ah ha davey. That’s what happens when you try to be a smartass.
Robert, I wonder if Assuage would’ve eventually uncovered stuff on UFOs via wikileaks had he not been shut down.
Assange is shut down?