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Volume 18: Number 1: Article 4
The Sasquatch: An Unwelcome and Premature Zoological Discovery?
John A. Bindernagel , 920 Second Street, Courtenay, BC V9N 1C3, Canada
Over 3000 North American reports of a large hair-covered bipedal animal resembling an upright gorilla have been recorded and reviewed. More importantly, over 100 different tracks attributed to such an animal have been cast and archived. At the same time, wildlife biologists and other zoologists continue to ignore this evidence and to reject papers on the subject submitted for presentation at professional conferences. This attitude of dismissal results from the ridicule and discredit heaped on the subject in the popular media coupled with the perceived unlikelihood of a large non-human primate occurring in North America. The discovery of the sasquatch may be ' premature ' in at least three ways: the animal resembles a bipedal ape, an anomaly in a mammal group that is perceived to be exclusively quadrupedal; its tracks resemble large versions of human tracks; and it occurs on the North American continent where no other non-human primates are known to occur. The possibility of such an animal existing anywhere—but especially in North America— apparently appears so preposterous as to be an affront to scientists. Nevertheless, the hypothesis that the sasquatch is an upright North American great ape remains the best explanation of the available evidence.
Keywords: Sasquatch, discovery, zoological, premature
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The Sasquatch: An Unwelcome and Premature Zoological Discovery?
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