Due to the sensitive nature of the species, I chose not to post this Bigfoot photo onto iNat, but will share it here in the forum. [IMG_3949]

Not an error, believe it or not a recent study concluded that Bigfoots are actually extremely closely related to wrens.

Oh, wow! I never would have guessed that!

The eyes are on the very top of its head. This might suggest that it is an ambush predator. It may hide in dense shrubbery or in the mud or something with only its eyes exposed and then wait for prey to pass by.

Or perhaps it submerges itself underwater. Milk lagoons are prime habitats for unsuspecting cookies.

If using ancient Greek the genus might be something like Glykidiophilus or something. Cookie seems to have originated as a diminutive of cake (koek → koekje in Dutch), and -idion or -ion are diminutives in Ancient Greek. I don’t know enough to know what the correct conjugation is. And then -philus o…

At risk of overkilling this joke, someone sent me yet another photo of the species… [IMG_3951]

[image] tiwane: The comedian Mitch Hedberg (RIP) weighed in on why Bigfoot is so difficult to photograph . If he’s correct and Bigfoot is naturally out-of-focus, then that creature is an ideal photo subject for many iNat photographers who shoot wildlife with their phones.

Hmm… this one appears to be a juvenile. But it also could be a subspecies of the first one. Notice that it has a visible nose while the first one did not.

Bigfoot Sighting and Photo

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tiwane December 5, 2024, 11:32pm 34

The comedian Mitch Hedberg (RIP) weighed in on why Bigfoot is so difficult to photograph.

(I don’t know if any content after the bigfoot jokes are NSFW)

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