Re: Sasquatch Distribution Defined= Bear

http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn17415-bigfoots-likely-haunts-revealed.html

http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2699.2009.02152.x

Predicting the distribution of Sasquatch in western North America: anything goes with ecological niche modelling


"Sasquatch, the mythical "Bigfoot" of western North America, makes its home deep within the fertile imaginations of gullible people. If you insist on looking for one in the real world, though, you should search in the home of the black bear – at least according to a tongue-in-cheek study of the ape-like creature's habitat preferences….

The researchers also compared the niche model for Sasquatch to one they developed for black bear. The two were statistically indistinguishable, they found. This suggests that many supposed Sasquatch sightings may simply be misidentified bears ...."
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The cure for a fallacious argument is a better argument, not the suppression of ideas.
-- Carl Sagan

http://home.clara.net/rfthomas/classics/beck.html

It's a good read. I don't think these prospectors misidentified anything.