Bigfoot real?

[Redlinerobert]

This image was taken by one of those hidden automatic hunting cameras in Pennsylvania back in September.  Looks pretty odd to me.

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according to the experts.. its a bear with mange... *shrug* looks mighty weird though doesn't it.. would cause me to scream like a 12 year old little girl if it crossed my path at night!

AL

[Redlinerobert]

I don't buy it.  It looks like an ape to me.  

[Raul]

I 'm open minded about the subject, let 's remember that for example the Okapi was only known to the locals until 1901 and that even though the europeans have been up and down all over the African for centuries none of them had ever seen one, so the possiblity is there.

However I take any sighting of a large ape in the American continent with skepticism, apes according to the fossil records became extinct in the entire American continent millions of years ago, actually the only "ape" known to step foot in the American continent was man during the ice age and that wasn 't so long ago.

[Raul]

Thinking about in more depth and looking at the picture I may think that the critter in the picture could be the BaitMonkey talking a hike through the woods in search for his next victim.

[Catt]

I've seen a few bears in the wild so what catches my minds eye first are the hind legs, although a bear can walk up right its legs are still designed for walking on all four. These hind legs are long and slim like a human.

[CGH]

It's one of thoes wolf boys from way down south in Mexico

[.dsaavedra.]

thats a pretty dam small bigfoot. looks more like a chimp to me. maybe some kid stole the chimp from a zoo and put it in the woods for a quick snapshot. lol.

or maybe some kid dressed up like a chimp.

or maybe its just a good photoshopped pic.

[Guest avid]

It's a Keystone quadripedal bigfooticus sasquatchicus.

also known as a black bear photographed in an odd position at a weird angle.

[mattm]

It's a Keystone quadripedal bigfooticus sasquatchicus.

also known as a black bear photographed in an odd position at a weird angle.

Thats right.  Just like all your fish pictures taking from wierd angles that all look so small even though you insist they are monsters .

[Fish Man]

its a bear, reember that there was another pic taken about 30 inutes prior to the one above that showed 2 or 3 small bears, im with avid its just an add picture of a bear. but then again we all know all about odd  pictures taken at an odd angle here on bassresource.com dont we? (cough avid cough)

[Redlinerobert]

Oh man....look closely guys. I think it's muddy.

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[Fish Man]

problem solved lol ;D

[Tin]

LMAO! Redline, as soon as I saw Pennsylvania and the pic, it was the first thing I thought of.

[Low_Budget_Hooker]

Friggin' BAIT MOKEY, what's wrong with you guys?  He's off one back and on to another...

[Tin]

I've seen a few bears in the wild so what catches my minds eye first are the hind legs, although a bear can walk up right its legs are still designed for walking on all four. These hind legs are long and slim like a human.

Exaclty, looks like a guy but a hunchback, lol.

[luckyinkentucky]

according to the experts.. its a bear with mange... *shrug* looks mighty weird though doesn't it.. would cause me to scream like a 12 year old little girl if it crossed my path at night!

AL

"According to the experts" .... well .... I AM an expert.  As close to one as anyone I guess.   I'm a Wildlife Biologist, and that is not a black bear!    Black bears have  thick limbs, massive shoulders, and a short back.  The animal in the picture has calves smaller than the forearms / forelegs.  

I don't know what to make of it, but I will tell you that 'Professionals' discredit anything they do not have scientific proof of.  I have seen colleagues discredit mountain lion sighting by photographic proof simply because the numbers don't add up.  

[Redlinerobert]

So what do you think Lucky?  Money suit or the real deal?  

[Guest muddy]

IF THERE WAS A SUCH THING AS A BIGFOOT REEL: ROBERT YOU WOULD HAVE ONE ALREADY!

That picture was validated as being a black bear suffering with a very virulent strain of mange here in North East PA. No it is not me, however it does have a profile very simialr to Zel

[Guest muddy]

according to the experts.. its a bear with mange... *shrug* looks mighty weird though doesn't it.. would cause me to scream like a 12 year old little girl if it crossed my path at night!

AL

"According to the experts" .... well .... I AM an expert. As close to one as anyone I guess. I'm a Wildlife Biologist, and that is not a black bear! Black bears have thick limbs, massive shoulders, and a short back. The animal in the picture has calves smaller than the forearms / forelegs.

I don't know what to make of it, but I will tell you that 'Professionals' discredit anything they do not have scientific proof of. I have seen colleagues discredit mountain lion sighting by photographic proof simply because the numbers don't add up.

OK Lucky, Where did you study? What degree do you have? How many years have you in the field? I am going to wager the answer to those questions is none. Here is a short bio. of the man who made that determination, I think I will stick with his information:

Mark Ternent is currently employed as a Wildlife Biologist in the Pennsylvania Game Commission's Bureau of Wildlife Management. Hired in August 2000, he is responsible for studying and managing Pennsylvania's black bear population. Bears have been the focus of his career in wildlife research since 1991.

A native of Lonaconing, Maryland, a rural community in the state's western mountains, Mr. Ternent earned a Bachelor of Science Degree in Wildlife-Fisheries Management from Frostburg State University, Maryland, and a Master of Science Degree in Wildlife Conservation from the University of Minnesota in St Paul, Minnesota. He received several academic awards from both institutions, including Summa Cum Laude. Black bear ecology and how to resolve a burgeoning nuisance bear problem at a large military training reserve in central Minnesota were the subjects of Mr. Ternent's graduate research.

Before joining the Game Commission, he served as a black bear and grizzly bear biologist with the Wyoming Game and Fish Department since May 1996. While there, he compiled harvest data and proposed annual harvest goals for the bear management program; studied black bear and grizzly bear population numbers; attempted to resolve human-bear conflicts; and conducted public outreach and education programs about bears. He also worked closely with federal agencies in monitoring recovery of the threatened Yellowstone Grizzly Bear population. From March 1994 until May 1996, Mr. Ternent worked for the Missouri Department of Conservation conducting research on wild turkeys in the southeast Ozark Mountains and prairie chicken reintroductions in northcentral Missouri.

An author and co-author of many wildlife articles and reports, Mr. Ternent is a member of the International Association for Bear Research and Management, the Northeast Bear Technical Committee, the Mid-Appalachian Bear Study Group, and the Pennsylvania Chapter of The Wildlife Society. He currently lives outside the State College area with wife, Rhonda.

[luckyinkentucky]

1) Auburn University's School of Forestry and Wildlife Sciences.  Started out Pre-Vet, but changed.  

2) I have a MNR or Master of Natural Resources. Working on my MS or Master of SCience. I will have my PhD before I'm done.   A little further than a Bachelors.   ;D ;D

3) Total of 6 years in the field professionally, but I've been doing it almost all of my life with my Uncle and father who are KDFWR or Kentucky Dept. of Fish & Wildlife Resources  Employees.    I was studying deer herds while most kids were trading baseball cards, and playing Nintendo.  

I see it all the time.  Don't worry about it.  The guys that have the state jobs get the lime light while us Private Sector guys do all the work and report to them.  They get all the credit, and we get paid 6 figure incomes to keep our mouths shut.  

Oh ... almost forgot.   It's not a bear.   ;D

Probably a kid in a chimp suit, but it's not a bear.  Explain the small chest cavity, and 'humped' back.  

[Guest muddy]

Thanks Lucky, You have the credentials for resource management, correct !I will take the word of a lowly paid state worker, who happens to be a biologist, specializing in bear managment on this one. There was a Bruin taken on second day of the bear season, harvested in LUZERNE COUNTY that had a lot of the charecteritics of the picture, if it s real. I will see if there is a picture of that bear I can post.

[.dsaavedra.]

i think its just a kit in a monkey suit...def. doesnt look like a bear...they dont have tht long and skinny of limbs.

[fishbear]

ok, I am watching Monster Quest on the history channel.  They are in Canada, and they investigate blood and tissue samples taken from a screw board the owner of a fishing cabin used to keep animals from crashing down the front door when they are not there.  

They are investigating obviously Sasquatch.  The end of the show, they were able to pull DNA from the blood sample....  it was matched to both human and ape..  They also had rocks thrown at them at the cabin at night..

And people wonder why I carry my 44 mag in the woods,   :o

[.dsaavedra.]

ok, I am watching Monster Quest on the history channel. They are in Canada, and they investigate blood and tissue samples taken from a screw board the owner of a fishing cabin used to keep animals from crashing down the front door when they are not there.

They are investigating obviously Sasquatch. The end of the show, they were able to pull DNA from the blood sample.... it was matched to both human and ape.. They also had rocks thrown at them at the cabin at night..

And people wonder why I carry my 44 mag in the woods, :o

i was just talking to tin2win and he said he was watchng that show....thast freaky. wish i could have seen it. hopefully there will be a re run sometime.