About big foot

02/09/2012 10:22

Bigfoot
(Sasquatch)

Frame 352 from the Patterson-Gimlin film, alleged by Roger Patterson and Robert Gimlin to show a bigfoot, and by some others to show a man in an ape suit.¹
Creature
Grouping Cryptid
Sub grouping Hominid
Data
Country United States
Habitat Forest
Bigfoot, also known as sasquatch, is the name given to an ape-like creature that some people believe inhabits forests, mainly in the Pacific Northwest region of North America. Bigfoot is usually described as a large, hairy, bipedal humanoid. The term sasquatch is an anglicized derivative of the Halkomelem word sásq’ets.²³
Scientists discount the existence of Bigfoot and consider it to be a combination of folklore, misidentification, and hoax,⁴ rather than a living animal, because of the lack of physical evidence and the large numbers of creatures that would be necessary to maintain a breeding population.⁵⁶ A few scientists, such as Jane Goodall⁷ and Jeffrey Meldrum, have expressed interest and belief in the creature, with Meldrum expressing the opinion that evidence collected of alleged Bigfoot encounters warrants further evaluation and testing.⁸