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Cliff Barackman

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Flightless Bird
Live in Portland: Bigfoot, Beavers, and the Oregon Trail

You can see the fingers are a little crooked because the shape of the impression isn't really the shape of the hand. it's the shape of the damage done to the ground by the hand. Or if we're talking about footprints, it'd be the same thing. So there's slippage and sliding and that sort of thing.

Flightless Bird
Live in Portland: Bigfoot, Beavers, and the Oregon Trail

You can see the fingers are a little crooked because the shape of the impression isn't really the shape of the hand. it's the shape of the damage done to the ground by the hand. Or if we're talking about footprints, it'd be the same thing. So there's slippage and sliding and that sort of thing.

Flightless Bird
Live in Portland: Bigfoot, Beavers, and the Oregon Trail

There's a lot of similarities between these and human hands, but there's also a lot of staggering differences. For example, the thumb is at a different place on the palm. It's actually a little bit lower. If you notice that the fingers look short and kind of squat,

Flightless Bird
Live in Portland: Bigfoot, Beavers, and the Oregon Trail

There's a lot of similarities between these and human hands, but there's also a lot of staggering differences. For example, the thumb is at a different place on the palm. It's actually a little bit lower. If you notice that the fingers look short and kind of squat,

Flightless Bird
Live in Portland: Bigfoot, Beavers, and the Oregon Trail

It's because the webbing in between their phalanges, their finger bones, actually goes up higher and gives the impression of them having shorter fingers, when in all likelihood the phalanges are probably more or less proportionally similar to ours. But the differences in their hand indicate that they don't have what's called a precision grip, like we have, like we can pick up BBs from the table.

Flightless Bird
Live in Portland: Bigfoot, Beavers, and the Oregon Trail

It's because the webbing in between their phalanges, their finger bones, actually goes up higher and gives the impression of them having shorter fingers, when in all likelihood the phalanges are probably more or less proportionally similar to ours. But the differences in their hand indicate that they don't have what's called a precision grip, like we have, like we can pick up BBs from the table.

Flightless Bird
Live in Portland: Bigfoot, Beavers, and the Oregon Trail

They have a power grip designed for entirely different things, like ripping apart logs, ripping deer legs off, ripping apart animals, and that sort of stuff. And that's what they do with them. They've been seen doing those sort of things.

Flightless Bird
Live in Portland: Bigfoot, Beavers, and the Oregon Trail

They have a power grip designed for entirely different things, like ripping apart logs, ripping deer legs off, ripping apart animals, and that sort of stuff. And that's what they do with them. They've been seen doing those sort of things.

Flightless Bird
Live in Portland: Bigfoot, Beavers, and the Oregon Trail

Yeah, in order for a species to be academically accepted, we have to have what's called a holotype, which is basically a dead one or a piece of the body in some sort of way. And so far, no one has successfully, very few people have tried, I'm not a hunter myself, but to kill and bring in a Sasquatch. There's a lot of problems with that.

Flightless Bird
Live in Portland: Bigfoot, Beavers, and the Oregon Trail

Yeah, in order for a species to be academically accepted, we have to have what's called a holotype, which is basically a dead one or a piece of the body in some sort of way. And so far, no one has successfully, very few people have tried, I'm not a hunter myself, but to kill and bring in a Sasquatch. There's a lot of problems with that.

Flightless Bird
Live in Portland: Bigfoot, Beavers, and the Oregon Trail

Number one, and hunters are not the gun-toting hillbillies shooting up the countryside that media oftentimes portrays them as. The number one rule of hunting, and I'm sure a lot of you are hunters as well, is that you never, ever, ever pull the trigger on something unless you know exactly what it is that you're shooting at, right?

Flightless Bird
Live in Portland: Bigfoot, Beavers, and the Oregon Trail

Number one, and hunters are not the gun-toting hillbillies shooting up the countryside that media oftentimes portrays them as. The number one rule of hunting, and I'm sure a lot of you are hunters as well, is that you never, ever, ever pull the trigger on something unless you know exactly what it is that you're shooting at, right?

Flightless Bird
Live in Portland: Bigfoot, Beavers, and the Oregon Trail

And unfortunately, or fortunately, depending on what side you're on, Sasquatches look just like people in monkey suits, right? And most Sasquatch sightings are about two to three seconds long. And is that enough time for you or any hunters out there in the audience thinking, okay, I'm going to pull a trigger and prove a species is real, or am I going to shoot a guy in a suit?

Flightless Bird
Live in Portland: Bigfoot, Beavers, and the Oregon Trail

And unfortunately, or fortunately, depending on what side you're on, Sasquatches look just like people in monkey suits, right? And most Sasquatch sightings are about two to three seconds long. And is that enough time for you or any hunters out there in the audience thinking, okay, I'm going to pull a trigger and prove a species is real, or am I going to shoot a guy in a suit?

Flightless Bird
Live in Portland: Bigfoot, Beavers, and the Oregon Trail

Because it's a gray area whether or not it's legal to shoot a Sasquatch, but it is absolutely illegal to shoot a jackass in a monkey suit.

Flightless Bird
Live in Portland: Bigfoot, Beavers, and the Oregon Trail

Because it's a gray area whether or not it's legal to shoot a Sasquatch, but it is absolutely illegal to shoot a jackass in a monkey suit.

Flightless Bird
Live in Portland: Bigfoot, Beavers, and the Oregon Trail

I don't always agree with that law, but it's on the books.

Flightless Bird
Live in Portland: Bigfoot, Beavers, and the Oregon Trail

I don't always agree with that law, but it's on the books.

Flightless Bird
Live in Portland: Bigfoot, Beavers, and the Oregon Trail

It's a species of animal. They're breeding. They're breeding. Oh, absolutely, yeah. There are many, many sightings of juvenile Sasquatches. In fact, over here I have a track cast of a juvenile. There are females. The very famous Patterson-Gimlin film subject walking across the sandbar, for example, she has breasts, so she's clearly a female.

Flightless Bird
Live in Portland: Bigfoot, Beavers, and the Oregon Trail

It's a species of animal. They're breeding. They're breeding. Oh, absolutely, yeah. There are many, many sightings of juvenile Sasquatches. In fact, over here I have a track cast of a juvenile. There are females. The very famous Patterson-Gimlin film subject walking across the sandbar, for example, she has breasts, so she's clearly a female.