Monday, November 01, 2010
BIGFOOT BUFOONERY
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Half a century ago, Belgian Zoologist Bernard Heuvelmans first codified cryptozoology in his book On the Track of Unknown Animals.
The Centre for Fortean Zoology (CFZ) are still on the track, and have been since 1992. But as if chasing unknown animals wasn't enough, we are involved in education, conservation, and good old-fashioned natural history! We already have three journals, the largest cryptozoological publishing house in the world, CFZtv, and the largest cryptozoological conference in the English-speaking world, but in January 2009 someone suggested that we started a daily online magazine! The CFZ bloggo is a collaborative effort by a coalition of members, friends, and supporters of the CFZ, and covers all the subjects with which we deal, with a smattering of music, high strangeness and surreal humour to make up the mix.
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Bigfoot stories in the Sport? Blimey, you don't get many of those to the pound, missus!
You know, this does raise some interesting biological questions. If we assume that Bigfoot is an ape, then when was the common ancestor between Bigfoot and humans, and had the human secondary sexual characteristics started to evolve by then?
I personally would say not; a lot of the human sexual characteristics depend on bare skin, which only evolved on the plains of Africa as a means of losing heat during active pursuit hunting, which presumably postdates the common ancestor of ourselves and Bigfoot; the Bigfoot species presumably diverged a couple of million years prior to this time around the time that Orangs diverged off the group, possibly as a northern temperate forest ape.
I therefore hypothesise that Bigfoot sexual characteristics are adapted to life in a food-poor, cool temperate woodland environment, where Bigfoot individuals would be fairly widely separated, and not live in close groups for much of the time; an animal that size would simply not be able to find enough food were it in competition with several others. This means that the signally has to be pheromonal and possibly infrasonic in nature, to allow individuals to signal to each other over long distances.
This all leads on to one fundamental question regarding the article: was it accompanied by a soundtrack and a scratch'n'sniff card?
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