Bigfoot reading task

Bigfoot is real

Bigfoot is fake

"Beginning in the late 1990's and continuing for the next 10 years, fingerprint expert Jimmy Chilcutt in Texas began examining details in track casts obtained in various parts of the country. "He noticed distinct dermal ridges in some of the casts. Some of the nearly microscopic details showed healed scars where the skin had been previously cut or damaged. Some of the casts showed larger longitudinal ridges, which were also thought to be dermal ridges, originally. "Other researchers later demonstrated that those larger longitudinal ridges could have been created inadvertently in the process of pouring the liquified plaster into the track impression. The more microscopic details of the healed dermal scars however were not caused that way. "The healed scar patterns tend to confirm the authenticity of the tracks in question." "There are many examples of recordings attributed to the sounds of Bigfoots, which are very distinct from the sounds of other animals. "Bigfoots are said to make loud howls and screams at night, as well as wood knocking sounds or rock clacking sounds. "The most compelling collection of recordings was obtained in California's Sierra Nevada Mountains in the 1970's with the help of a newspaper journalist from Sacramento. Those recordings, called the 'Sierra Sounds' collection, are widely believed to be authentic recordings of bigfoots. A few of those recordings captured what sounds like a primitive language. "Sound recordings have been obtained in eastern states as well, such as Ohio, Mississippi and Florida." "Beginning in the late 1990's and continuing for the next 10 years, fingerprint expert Jimmy Chilcutt in Texas began examining details in track casts obtained in various parts of the country. "He noticed distinct dermal ridges in some of the casts. Some of the nearly microscopic details showed healed scars where the skin had been previously cut or damaged. Some of the casts showed larger longitudinal ridges, which were also thought to be dermal ridges, originally. "Other researchers later demonstrated that those larger longitudinal ridges could have been created inadvertently in the process of pouring the liquified plaster into the track impression. The more microscopic details of the healed dermal scars however were not caused that way. "The healed scar patterns tend to confirm the authenticity of the tracks in question."

The average Bigfoot sighting is purported to place the creature at approximately 8-9ft tall and at 500-600lb in weight. The problem here is that such an immense creature cannot be eating enough food to survive, because the impact on the food chain would be incredible. Scientists have proven that sasquatches would need to number in at least the tens of thousands to sustain themselves over the years through breeding. If these thousands of creatures are all packing away 5,000 calories worth of meat every day, where is the deficit in the animals/plants they are eating? Considering even a slight drop in the population of any given animal (or plant) causes large reverberations through the food chain, the statistics simply don’t add up. Scientists have established that in order for the existence of Bigfoot to be a zoological possibility, there would have to be tens of thousands of them breeding. But how would such a massive population be able to successfully locate potential mates, if even humans are incapable of finding them? The idea that sasquatches are being bred in families and are mating successfully with other groups of sasquatches is simply impossible – and yet such a situation must exist for these creatures to continue breeding. Coupled with the fact that almost all alleged Bigfoot photographs and videos show only one creature – implying that they travel alone – the odds of them being able to find each other to mate and produce offspring are small indeed. Although this does not directly disprove the existence of Bigfoot, it is important to point out that there are plenty of motives for people to create a hoax. People may simply seek attention, fame or wealth – just like the men who covered an ape suit with a dead squid (pictured above) to try and cash in on that $1,000,000 reward.

Harlem and I believe bigfoot is real because It has been witnessed by people.There are a lot of videos and photographs showing bigfoot. Also Rick Dyer said he had killed a sasquatch in september 2012, after that they ran some DNA tests and it’s real.

In Reading we have been learning about conflicting information. We had to buddy up and then chose a topic.

Oh Hsen and I chose Bigfoot. Then we had to copy and paste in one table of evidence that bigfoot is real and the other bigfoot is fake,