Have you read this new sighting report from Jan.'04? http://www.bfro.net/GDB/show_report.asp?id=7804 Moskowitz and Strain say in conclusion that the BF tried to "fool" the observers into thinking it was a Bear by going down on all fours in the road. Any comments on this apparent coping strategy?

Further proof that Bob is still alive and kicking.

Interesting hypothesis. Not much in the report to support it, but logical...

I strongly suspect that it dropped to "all fours" to minimize its size and avoid exposure. I seriously doubt that it was impersonating a bear or any other animal.
I have read of BF dropping to the ground once it was thought to have realized that it had been observed ....
We have got to be careful to seperate observations from suppositions as to motives, etc. when it comes to these creatures. It is far too easy to anthropormorphize them.
Jan

Agreed!

Bad language usage...

"It also appears that when seen the second time, the animal may have tried to “fool” the witnesses by walking on all fours to give the appearance it was a bear."

...would have been more precise.

There's absolutely nothing to support that hypothesis.. Those kind of leaps bother me.

Perhaps it went on all fours simply because it was having problems with this icey road and wanted to get the hell out of there...

Usually the simplest explanation is the best.

I agree.

I agree also. I like how Titus put it that usually the simplest explanation is the best. We don't know what is in the mind of a Sasquatch. I may have looked like that but who really knows.

Hey, I think Kathy and Bob do GREAT work, and in fact, it's an excellent follow-up to a report that had very little information.

They make one "supposition" and you are all right to make your points, but really, there ARE positives here.

We've finally got a mid-winter report from the central sierras in Ca. and it's "scrounging around for its (sic) next meal".
So, How do you feel?

I'm elated right now just to hear of the activity. and the last sentence in an otherwise excellent follow-up doesn't mean it's all a negative to me. I wonder if there's a way to canvass the neighborhood discreetly and see if anyone else saw it or others.

Oh, I think it's a great report, too. Don't get me wrong. And I'm a huge fan of Bob's. But like Tug said, three words would have made it better.

hey,,,Has any one out there seen any "NEW" photographic proof?

whoa! i'm about 35 minutes from there!

yikes

cool

yikes

thinking about a nice drive out that way this weekend

gael

After further review... I do not see where it says the opinion "the animal tried to “fool” the witnesses by walking on all fours" was Kathy's or Bob's.

Really? Who's was it then? To me, everything after 'Both investigators thought...' is the opinion of the investigators (Kathy and Bob). If it was the opinion of the witnesses, it doesn't read that way.

Or was it merely the opinion of the people reporting the incident?
It gets into an inferred we say/they say..we said/they said!

There's a thought!

Like I said...

I realize that after your statement I was stating the obvious tugboatwa!

Obviously!

It apppears the BFRO report has been changed (do you suppose someone been reading this thread?)... italics and bold provided by your Scribe.

http://www.bfro.net/GDB/show_report.asp?id=7804

I swear to god I was there 20 minutes ago and it wasn't like that!

In any event, it's better now...

Wow!
If talking about such things here can bring about such change..well..can we talk about the balance of my personal chequing account next?

Witness the power of CHEESE!...

no wait... I mean the power of the Bigfoot Forums!

So, the BFF isn't a good link for the BFRO, but the BFF is a good editor for the BFRO?

What's a widgit?

*opens mouth*

*closes mouth*

It's a slang term for doohickey.

I was going to post almost the same message, but didn't want to come across as too smug!

That's not what my mouth was opening and closing about...

here fishy, fishy?

Uh uh. No way. Just call me Sergeant Schultz.

The first time I even looked at this thread was right now. Scout's honor.

Uh, I didn't mean to involve you Fish. I was referring to Bipto's *open mouth - close* comment. Reminded me of a fish.

OIC!

Duuhhhhh on me then.

And in that case, just disregard my previous post. I saw nothink anyvay.

Hook, line, and sinker.

Oh sure. Just rub it in why don't you, Jeny.

If I had more Tim(e), I would.

"What's a widgit?" is a line from Back to School.

The business professor is teaching about starting a company, getting bank loans, etc.

Rodney Dangerfield--"What's the product you're going to manufacture?"
Professor--"It's not relevant for this discussion, but we will call it a 'widgit'."
Rodney--"What's a widgit?" (said with a sarcastic/confused look on face).
Professor--"It's a fictional product, it doesn't matter." (getting frustrated)
Rodney--"Yeah, try telling that to the Bank."
Professor--"Mr. Melon's comments notwithstanding, where shall we build our factory?"
Rodney--"How about Fantasyland!" (class cracks up, teacher loses some sanity)


I find it a good rhetorical question to toss out for odd situations, 'course noone ever seems to get my quote whenever I use it.

"It's a fictional product, it doesn't matter."

Yeah! try telling that to 'chronic'!!

I've thrown that quote out before in business meetings when two people are talking about a topic that makes no sense. That usually just draws more confused looks, but I'm still holding out that some day, someone will smile and toss back the "It's a fictional product, it doesn't matter." quote. Tugboat was close, real close

I thought a widget was the little plastic thingy you use to scrape ice off your windshields?

Ice on your windshield???

Who ever heard of such a thing???

(<-- Check locale)

I rank that ~assumption~ right up there with the Bigfoot/UFO correlation.. You must admit, that is hilarious.....

*He got down on all fours to make them think he was a bear*..

I wonder if a bigfoot can learn to flap his arms as he runs across the road in an attempt to make any possible witnesses think he is a goose trying to take off!!!!

You can go to hell, Fishbone.

Woke up to -11 this morning...-7 right now...-14 tonight...tomorrow's high'll be -5 with a low of -14...yeah, 48+ hours below zero all the while you're driving around town in your short sleeves with your freaking window rolled down...ooo, it's 59! BRRR!...you make me sick...

I don't think it's a huge leap to say it was trying to make a smaller profile in an attempt to make itself harder to see out in the open. Buy trying to get in its head and saying it was trying to look like a bear is going a little farther than I would. Of course, the skeptic would then say, "Maybe it was a bear." That's just what we need!

Well, if it's any consolation, the mercury is supposed to dip down into the low thirties tonight.

No short sleeves for a bit. (Yep. I'm a cold weather wimp. No doubt about it.)

Wow, you mean water might feeze!?! Time to move to Panama!

I do my best.

Around here, it's such a novelty when it actually freezes that people will put out their lawn sprinklers just to see ice all over the shrubbery in the morning.

Hmmm...Panama City, Florida to Panama City, Panama. Outside of the language thing, I could handle that.

It's obvious that we can't know what a bigfoot is thinking; the described behavior may not relate to an effort to imitate another animal, but the concept itself is not outrageous. Mimicry is known from a wide range of animals. Sometimes the mimicry is intentional, as described in the quote shown below.