On the Track of Unknown Animals is a cryptozoological book by the Belgian-FrenchzoologistBernard Heuvelmans that was first published in 1955 under the title Sur la Piste des Bêtes Ignorées. The English translation by Richard Garnett was published in 1958 with some updating by the author and with a foreword by Gerald Durrell. A revised and abridged edition was published in 1965, and a further edition in 1995. It is credited with introducing the term cryptozoology[1]and established its author as the "Father of Cryptozoology".[2]
An odd-looking blob creature was recently discovered living in a lagoon at a park in British Columbia.
The gelatinous oddity was spotted in shallow water at an area of Vancouver's Stanley Park appropriately known as the 'Lost Lagoon.'
An examination by an ecologist identified the strange blob as a bryozoan, which is a collection of tiny microorganisms which join together to form the gooey orb as a form of protection against predators.
Although residents living nearby may rest easy knowing that the blob is not an interstellar species planning a takeover of Canada, the bryozoan may actually represent an invader, of sorts.
That's because this type of fresh water bryozoan has only been seen in one other part of British Columbia before and never in the aquatic ecosystem of Stanley Park.
Scientists suggest that warming temperatures in the region have made it more hospitable to the blobs, which led them to seemingly spread into the area.
Experts did not express much concern that they will have much impact on the wildlife at the park, since the blobs have probably been there for a while and were only just noticed for the first time recently.
Nonetheless, should the creatures wind up wreaking havoc on Stanley Park, at least they've got a perfect title for a film about it: 'Creature from the Lost Lagoon.'
Pompous reporters for Wochit Entertainment and National Geographic assert without a single citation to back up their statement that Bigfoot is a fictional creature. A single link is not too much to ask for a journalist making such a presumptuous statement. I will give you my choice for a link and challenge these fake news purveyors (debunking the lies of National Geographic is something I'm quite familiar with) to add one single source to back up their claim. Here is mine: http://undebunkingbigfoot.blogspot.com/2014/02/best-evidence-for-existence-of.html. Now please add one to your pages and we'll see which one, and the material it references, that people find most convincing, shall we?
In Skamania County, Washington, which considers itself a Bigfoot refuge a 1984 law states that killing the mythical ape-like creature can get you a year in jail, a $1,000 fine or both. Even though Bigfoot is fictional, the Animal Legal Defense Fund included it on their list of animals who people cannot harm without repercussion. The fund states that Bigfoot is on the list because it points to the larger commonalities” between people and other animals.”
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/20...http://www.wochit.com Even though Bigfoot is fictional (sorry, cryptozoologists), the defense fund included it on their list because “we feel [it] points to the larger commonalities” between people and other animals, Rosengard says. (Read about a Bigfoot sighting in Yellowstone.)
In other words, we and our wild kin are all sentient creatures that deserve legal protection.
Bigfoot cannot "point towards larger commonalities" between mankind and animals unless it is real if you ask me. This may very well be the belief of those that made the law who just didn't want to come right out and say it because of the ridicule factor that these two reports are ignorantly further propagating. This isn't just my opinion, but an educated guess based on the fact that other such laws have admittedly been implemented because of the view of those who drafted them that the evidence is compelling...
Oregon Legislative Assembly—1977 Regular Session
House Joint Resolution 52 Sponsored by Representative (later Governor) Kulongoski (at the request of Anita Paulsen)
Notwithstanding that Sasquatch are reputed to live in Devil’s Club swamps and feed on poison oak, there are those who insist on searching for them. Although no one has positively identified or captured one, this Legislative Assembly feels that it is a matter of time before this event will occur. http://www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2012/07/protecting-sasquatch
In another piece of dishonest reporting at mentalfloss.com the author goes through some mental gymnastics to fit his bias when they write:
The first place to outlaw Bigfoot slaughter explicitly was Skamania County, Washington. In 1969, two years after the release of the controversial Patterson-Gimlin film, the county found itself caught in the heat of peak Bigfoot fever. Believers flooded the Pacific Northwest with plans to track down the stealthy beast—and, as the Board of County Commissioners soon noticed, many visitors brought dangerous hunting weapons with them. Not only did this pose a risk to potential Bigfoots, but it also threatened the residents living in these supposed Sasquatch hotspots. More concerned with the safety of the latter than the former, the commissioners passed an official ordinance [PDF] stating that slaying Bigfoot was a felony punishable by up to five years in prison.
What else besides bias can explain the Bizarro World-esque inversion of reality of claiming the commissioners were "more concerned with the safety of the latter than the former" when the document itself clearly puts the former (the compelling evidence for Bigfoot) front and center before mentioning the weapons. The document does not support the assertion that the existence of the creature was not a real concern and simply added to the document as a means to an end. To the contrary, the order in which the concerns are laid out and more importantly the wording chosen, starting right off the bat with "evidence continues to accumulate indicating the possible existence... of a ape-like nocturnal primate." Noting an influx of scientific investigators before mentioning "believers" or casual hunters, and declaring the Sasquatch an endangered species, is another indication that the lawmakers were being fair and lending the credence to the subject that they thought it deserved.
In 1991 a nearby area in Washington, Whatcom County, drafted very similar legislation, which again started out by citing evidence before getting into concerns about weapons. This time much more emphasis was put on the evidence making it even clearer that the law makers did indeed find the evidence persuasive...
Serious researchers will be aware that such laws are not very surprising given the fact that so many front line legal experts, otherwise known as police officers, have reportedly had encounters with these so-called fictional beasts.
I'm sorry but every single hunter, police officer, and other professions dedicated to observing details and analytical indetification throughout the last 250 years aren't misidentifying bears as something unknown. Does misidetifiation occur? Yes but not at the rate the debunkers claim. Regardless if the actual truth occurs at only the most minimal rate, there is still a certain degree of something unknown existing. I've personally taken dozens of specimens of dozens of species of wildlife in the past 25 years of hunting across several states. Granted, I've never experienced an unknown creature, never have I witnessed a bear in any situation where it could be misidentified as a naturally bipedal, shaggy haired, 8 foot tall, hominin. For me to lay the assertion out the people much more trained and experienced than I am, in somewhere I've never been, at a high rate are misidentifying bear as an ape man is way too much. Not everyone thinks in darker ways either. - http://bigfootevidence.blogspot.com/2013/07/listen-to-last-nights-coast-to-coast-am.html?showComment=1373608459192#c7776496416280399501
Those who when it comes to this subject or other taboo topics are dismissive out of hand, insulting, condescending, who mock and sneer, etc., are usually misinformed/ignorant pseudo-skeptics. Even if they are right about the existence of Sasquatch, they are still engaging in horrendous journalism. They are many times nearly clueless about the extent and quality of the existing evidence, the minutia, the DNA studies, the peer-reviewed papers. If they are right, it is only because the happen to be. It isn't because they did their due-diligence and came to a conclusion. If they are wrong, we who simply say the evidence is compelling and worthy of study, will laugh in their face if they are ever proven so. I wonder how many of them choose to engage the subject in the manner that they do (not that they don't think it's real but the way they go about letting you know) because they are not very nice people. The type that must ridicule, humiliate or demean others to inflate their own egos.
Dr. Henner Fahrenbach Recorded by researcher by Thom Powell in 2002. He discusses Hair, footprints and other forensic evidence.
Dr. Henner Fahrenbach, formerly with the Oregon Primate Research Center (now retired), continues to be a major authority on the sasquatch issue. His research spans many decades, and he is convinced there is sufficient evidence to support the likelihood of the creature's existence. On the question as to why sasquatch
credibility is not recognized by the general scientific community, he states, "It is easy to put of f if you don't know anything about it. However, it is generally uncharacteristic for a scientist to respond in that way. That particular response is reserved for sasquatches."
"Scientific Bigfoot Footprint Analysis ... Bigfoot tracks are the most common form of evidence found of alleged Bigfoots ... scientists have taken the analysis of Bigfoot footprints to new scientific levels, applying modern police forensic investigative techniques to the dermal ridges (also known as fingerprints) ... video 1below shows an analysis of bigfoot tracks by police officer Jimmy Chilcutt and Dr. Jeff Meldrum ... and video 2 below is an analysis by Dr. Jeff Meldrum of footprint evidence from the Patterson film site ..." - Source: http://www.gvrd.com/bc_bigfoot_sasquatch/bigfoot_footprint_evidence.html
Esteban Sarmiento, Ph.D., is a biologist and primatologist who has worked as a functional anatomist at the American Museum of Natural History. While he does not claim that Bigfoot exists, he admits the possibility that it does and encourages careful scrutiny of evidence.
He attended the annual Texas Bigfoot Conference in 2009 and commented on a purported video clip of a Bigfoot in northern California—the so-called “Patterson-Gimlin film” shot in 1967. He said, according to BigfootEncounters.com: “If it’s real, this animal is exceedingly human-like.” He said the “Bigfoot” movements shown in the film do not resemble those of great apes.
In the documentary, scientists from various disciplines put the most compelling sasquatch evidence to the test. Collectively their conclusions are ground-breaking. There is now scientific proof for the existence of a giant primate species in North America -- a species fitting the descriptions of sasquatches.
Dr. Esteban Sarmiento Interview Please join your hosts Bob Coyne and Mike Killen as we welcome Dr. Esteban Sarmiento to the show. Dr. Sarmiento is a primatologist and a functional anatomist who has spent decades studying the great apes in Africa. His main field of study is the skeletons of hominoids. He has been featured on the TV show Monster Quest and in the documentary "Sasquatch: Legend Meets Science". If you can, please join us in our live show chat. It's always a lot of fun and we love to interact live with our listeners. http://www.blogtalkradio.com/bigfoot_quest/2010/06/23/bigfoot-quest-call-in-show
The late Dr. Grover S. Krantz, a physical anthropologist from Pullman, Washington, being interviewed by Daniel Perez, February 1992, about his knowledge of the Patterson-Gimlin Film. In this image, courtesy of Igor Bourtsev, Dr. Krantz is on the left. It is being released for the 50th anniversary of this famous home movie. Daniel Perez is the editor and publisher of the newsletter Bigfoot Times, published continuously since January 1998.
Related:
Interview with Bigfoot Times Newsletter Creator Daniel Perez:
Dame Jane Morris Goodall, DBE (born Valerie Jane Morris-Goodall on 3 April 1934) is a British primatologist, ethologist, anthropologist, and UN Messenger of Peace Considered to be the world's foremost expert on chimpanzees, Goodall is best known for her 45-year study of social and family interactions of wild chimpanzees in Gombe Stream National Park, Tanzania. She is the founder of the Jane Goodall Institute and has worked extensively on conservation and animal welfare issues. - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jane_Goodall
On Friday, September 27, 2002, during National Public Radio's (NPR) Talk of the Nation: Science Friday with Ira Flatow, Dr. Jane Goodall made a striking comment on her strong beliefs that large "undiscovered" primates, such as the Yeti or Sasquatch, do indeed exist. - Transcript of Dr. Jane Goodall's Comments on NPR Regarding Sasquatch
Here's the radio call-in show in which Dr. Jane Goodall has a little something to say about Bigfoot. Listen carefully to what Dr. Goodall says, she is one of the world's leading authorities on primates.
Dr. Jane Goodall being interviewed by Ira Flatow, National Public Radio's "Science Friday," September 27, 2002.
The color copy of the Patterson Footage that I found on the 'net obviously has something wrong with it. It plays too fast. I believe the originator of that video clip may have assumed that the film was shot in 24fps (instead of the 16fps that it was probably shot in), resulting in the video being played 1/3 faster than natural speed. This creates an unrealistic motion in the creature's gait. I found that very annoying so I tried to fix it in this video.
I included the MK Davis 'walking with bigfoot' enhancement footage, also.
