(ORDO NEWS) — You have probably already heard stories about Bigfoot – they say that this creature is covered with hair and looks like a monkey.
As a rule, people see it in high-mountainous and snow-covered places on the planet, and always from a very long distance.
All photos and videos with Bigfoot are of very poor quality, so it is almost impossible to make out what exactly is in the frame.
There is no evidence that Bigfoot exists – scientists have been searching for several decades, but have not found anything sensational.
At the same time, some people still continue to believe in the existence of the Yeti. Recently, data scientist Flow Foxon gave the simplest explanation for why people believe in Bigfoot and see him. What’s the matter?
Interesting fact: Bigfoot has many other names.
In Nepal, it is better known as a yeti, in North America it is called a bigfoot, and the inhabitants of Tibet are called metoh kangmi. In Australia, this creature is known under the names of enji, avdoshka, captar and so on.
What does a snowman look like
People who allegedly saw Bigfoot describe it in much the same way. According to them, he looks like a big hairy man or a giant ape.
It has a dense, muscular build, a pointed skull, long arms, a large lower jaw, and coats that are black, red, or white.
According to the description, it looks more like a Pithecanthropus or Neanderthal, who, by unknown means, has survived to this day.
Bigfoot Encounters
Usually people meet Bigfoot in snowy mountains. When it comes to this creature, the Himalayan Yeti is usually meant.
The first reports about him appeared in the 19th century – he is mentioned in the reports of British officials who visited the mountainous regions of India and Nepal.
For example, they said that they were afraid of “a hairy tailless humanoid creature.”
Similar creatures are found in the images of the inhabitants of Nepal and Tibet – these peoples are also very afraid of the mythical creature.
In the 20th century, people began to talk about Bigfoot more often and even share photos of him.
For example, in 1986, climber Adrian Wooldridge showed a photograph of a 2-meter Yeti he encountered in the northern Himalayas.
Like many other photographs of Bigfoot, the shot was taken from a great distance and there is little to be seen in it – only a figure that is vaguely human is visible.
Who is Bigfoot
According to data scientist Flow Foxon, Bigfoot doesn’t exist. There is a very simple explanation for the fact that people see a human-like creature – they become eyewitnesses of bears walking.
The fact is that sometimes some species of bears rise on two legs and walk like people.
Baribal black bears (Ursus americanus) have this feature – if they smell an interesting smell, stand on two paws and move slowly in search of its source.
From a distance, they can really look like a yeti, especially if white snow lies on black wool.
To test his assumption, the scientist compared data on the habitats of bears and cases of meeting with Bigfoot.
Indeed, it turned out that the more bears in the regions, the more often people report meeting with the yeti.
So, in the mountains of Asia, people can mistake a Himalayan brown bear (Ursus thibetanus) or a Tibetan brown bear (Ursus arctos pruinosus) walking on two legs for a Bigfoot.
It is readily believed that people mistake bears for Bigfoot. When people find fur or footprints of the yeti, it usually turns out later that they belong to bears.
Yes, sometimes the tracks are gigantic, but this is just the result of the melting of the paw print – over time, many tracks in the snow can expand.
In addition to this, the Soviet geographer Eduard Murzaev noted that in many Central Asian languages, the Himalayan bear was called “snowman”.
Why Bigfoot doesn’t exist
If that doesn’t sound like much, there’s plenty more evidence that Bigfoot doesn’t exist. First of all, it is worth noting that for many decades of targeted searches for the Yeti, scientists have not found it.
But it does not exist in a single copy – it is unlikely that it is able to survive in cold conditions for hundreds of years all alone, without the ability to reproduce.
He also clearly needs somewhere to live – for example, inside a cave.
But scientists have long studied the potential habitats of Bigfoot and have not found any evidence of his existence, even his bones, if he died for some reason. In the end, scientists had to find at least waste products.
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