On October 20, 1967, Bigfoot was filmed in northern California. Since then, the number of supporters of its existence has increased significantly. Why these people are wrong, and the yeti is just fiction, AiF.ru learned from the doctor of biological sciences.
Famous video
Exactly fifty years ago, two Americans - Roger Patterson and Bob Gimlin - made a film that made all supporters of the paranormal tremble with delight. Men videotaped Bigfoot in Bleef Creek Gorge in northern California. It was this recording that became the first and only "not blurry" video evidence of its existence. On it, the creature is represented not just as a spot, but as a living organism about six feet tall and with short thick hair all over its body. The controversy surrounding this tape does not subside until now. Some argue that Bigfoot is real, while others argue that resourceful cameramen were also excellent directors who filmed an ordinary person in a gorilla costume.
Population and size
From the point of view of science, it is very difficult to prove that something does not exist, it is much easier to do the opposite. Therefore, I will not swear in blood that there is no Bigfoot. However, I will give facts that will explain why a Bigfoot living in California, Tibet, Kuzbass or anywhere else is absurd and unlikely.
Firstly, almost all corners of our planet have already been studied, and there are no places left on Earth where people would not climb in search of large forms of life. The last time that scientists found and described a large animal happened over 100 years ago. Since then, no new species have been discovered. And this suggests that, apparently, all large individuals unknown to science ended there.
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For understanding, I will give you the following example: this year a grandiose and very important event happened at Moscow State University - people who are engaged in mushrooms described a new species in the Tver region. It was a real revolution in science, because this territory is well studied, and it was something transcendent to find it there. And, for a minute, these are mushrooms. They are small. Finding them is much more difficult than a huge beast. Namely, these dimensions are attributed by "eyewitnesses" to the yeti: he is taller (approximately 220 cm) and much larger than an ordinary person, moreover, covered with thick hair. If such a "colossus" existed, it would certainly be noticed! But since there is still no documented evidence of something like this, it says only one thing: Bigfoot does not exist.
In addition, for the Bigfoot to continue his race, he must not be alone. A whole population is needed, and quite large, at least several dozen individuals, so that the so-called Yeti do not degenerate. And if there was such a set of individuals, it would definitely not be missed.
False evidence
Bigfoot is big and cannot hide so that people won't find him for 200 years. For example, very few people have seen meerkats, but no one doubts that they exist. And all because they were found, described, made a lot of videos and photographs.
Sometimes some "sacred" objects appear that supposedly belong to Bigfoot: bones, pieces of wool, foot prints, etc. All these things, of course, are being investigated by scientists. But after genetic analysis, they turn out to be "dummies" that refer to already known animals. Human DNA is often found in the material, but this only indicates that the samples are contaminated: people held them in their hands and left their "information".
In general, some funny stories are constantly unfolding around the evidence obtained. For example, if my memory serves me, once some enthusiast, literally risking his life, stole the "Bigfoot bone" from a Tibetan monastery. He took her for research, which showed that she did not belong to a Bigfoot, but to a real bear, only a large one.
So, if someone has ever seen something, then most likely it was the same brown predator that got up on its hind legs. It's just that someone once imagined it, while others picked up this fantasy and began to believe in it.
The material was prepared with the leading researcher of the Faculty of Biology of Moscow State University, Doctor of Biological Sciences Peter Kamensky
Irina Chukhno