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BIGFOOT'S BUTTOCKS
By Kurt Kleiner
New Scientist

http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns227015

The imprint of a hairy backside in the mud of Washington state is the
strongest hint yet that Bigfoot is roaming the North American far west,
according to researchers who made the discovery.

Many people doubt whether the giant primate, commonly known as Bigfoot,
actually exists. Hundreds of its supposed footprints have been photographed
and cast, but this is one of the few body impressions of the hypothetical
creature.

"If we can just get other scientists to look at this with an objective view,
I think they'll say there must be something out there," says LeRoy Fish, a
zoologist and retired wildlife ecologist who took part in the expedition
that discovered the imprint.

Most stories of the bipedal apelike creature are dismissed as
misidentifications or hoaxes. But Fish and others think Bigfoot, or
Sasquatch as it is known in Canada, may be living hidden away in remote
wilderness areas.

The Bigfoot Field Researchers Organization (BFRO), which includes some
trained scientists, sponsored a 13-person expedition in September to look
for evidence in the Gifford Pinchot National Forest in southern Washington
state. To attract one of the creatures, the team set out food, spread
pheromones and played recordings thought to be the calls of other Bigfoots.

After placing apples in a muddy spot one evening, the investigators returned
the next morning to find an impression which, they say, shows the left
forearm, hip, thigh and heel of a large primate. They believe the impression
was made as the creature sat down and reached over to pick up the bait.

Anthropologist Jeff Meldrum of Idaho State University says the imprint seems
to have been made by a large, hair-covered hominid more than 2.5 metres
tall. Meldrum says he found markings that look like human fingerprints on
the heel print. "All we're trying to say at this stage is that there's
evidence that justifies objective consideration," Meldrum says.

The BFRO is inviting outside scientists to examine the casts, but has so far
had no offers. "It's been a challenge," says Meldrum. "For most people, you
just mention Bigfoot and you get a snicker." Benjamin Radford of the
Skeptical Inquirer magazine agrees that mainstream scientists are wary of
the subject because of a history of fakes. "After a while they just get
tired of wasting their time on hoaxes."

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