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["Lynda" <lurine AT softcom.net>]

I don't think they've ever ID'd the hair from Bhutan as being from any 
identifiable mammal.  Not sure about the hair that was from Washington.  I 
know the hair from Alaska is supposed to have come back as being from a 
bison.

Of course, with all the talk about Bigfoot, youngest and I were joking that 
the screamers we heard a couple of months ago may have been a, hmmm, what 
the heck do you call a group of Bigfoot?  When we first heard the screams, 
we thought it must have been someone having a knock down drag out fight. 
However, when we let the dogs out in the yard, they weren't having any and 
wanted back in the house.  Then the screams moved and there aren't any 
humans who could move that fast.  Blood curdling things!  We figured it must 
be our local mountain lion and her cubs.  But maybe not <g>  I mean, the 
Bigfoot Museum isn't just down Hwy 299 a ways <g>

Lynda
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Marie McHarry" <mmcharry AT gmail.com>


> Wow. I vividly remember one night in a tent in Michigan's Norther
> Peninsula when a couple of dear chased each other around our tent.
> They didn't sound much like deer, but what else has thundering hooves?
> The snorting was pretty amazing. I'm not sure what got that deer into
> an uproar, but it was effective -- and frightening at the time.
>
> As for Bigfoot, yesterday I listened to Bob Edwards interviewing Ira
> Flatow about Ira's new book. Ira has been interviewing scientists for
> about 30 years or more. His most tantalising moment, he said, was when
> he was talking to Jane Goodall and a guest asked her if there was any
> species that she was sure existed that she would like to discover. She
> said that she'd like to find Bigfoot (that's a condensed version -- it
> was more subtle than that). And then time ran out and Ira wasn't able
> to grill her.
>
> A huge Bigfoot-is-real contingent is out there, and some of the stuff
> they report sounds possible. The world often seems small, but it's
> also bigger than we imagine, and if Goodall thinks that Bigfoot is
> afoot....well, maybe. Gorillas and bonoboes are relatively recent
> discoveries.