In
The Discovery of the Sasquatch
, John A. Bindernagel begins by presenting historical writings of arriving nonnative people, who viewed the natives' stories of manlike giants in the forests as those of imaginary beings, which is a view that was maintained in nonnative culture over a long span of time. He then presents evidence in the forms of sightings of large apes throughout history and tracks of unknown animals. He then shows how the available evidence is not appreciated because of the group prejudice and rigid thinking of the formal scientific community, which fails to recognize such evidence from lack of conformity to current research and theories. In "Chapter 13 -- The Sasquatch As Misidentified Bear" on page 154, Bindernagel notes a strange experience described by British Columbia coastal adventurer and author Wylie Blanchet in her book
The Curve of Time
that involved a prospector barricading himself in a cave one night as two supposed grizzly bears "prowled outside all night, standing up and drumming on their huge chests, the way gorillas do." In "Chapter 15 -- The Sasquatch As Myth" on pages 171-172, Bindernagel notes the interesting experience of anthropologist Henry Sharp, who was confronted with doubt about his view that Bigfoot was only a symbolic being when "bekaycho" tracks were found around the piles of caribou meat of two hunters at a village where Sharp had collected eighteen sightings in one month during the summer of 1970. Bindernagel does not include in his book the important experience of Eugene Dubois, who in 1895 locked the first Homo erectus fossils in a strongbox in the Teyler Museum of Haarlem for the next 28 years because of denigration and unappreciation that came from the popular theory of the time that a large brain had evolved first and then upright status came later, while Dubois' human thigh bone and apelike cranium implied the opposite view: upright status had been attained first with the brain gradually becoming larger.
John A. Bindernagel highlights the similarities in physical characteristics and behavior of the known great apes and Bigfoot in his other book
North America's Great Ape: The Sasquatch - A Wildlife Biologist Looks at the Continent's Most Misunderstood Large Mammal
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John A. Bindernagel makes a presentation titled "The Sasquatch: Why The Concept Of An Upright North American Great Ape Is Unwelcome" in
Sasquatch Science: Searching for Bigfoot LIVE 2 DVD Set
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In the past, all books by this publisher have been by mail I think, although in rural Washington State outdoor stores I have seen a lot of the older books available on a rotating wire rack. You know... this has almost always been the case. Back in the 60's, John Green's books could only be found in supermarkets (back then $3.95 wasn't that cheap to me). There were no super bookstores like they have today.For what is in this book, I think the price is very reasonable and confirms my own thoughts on the subject. Spend less time trying to convince people and more in trying to study the damn thing.John has really surprised me with his two books. His first being the beginnings of a field guide on the Sasquatch and the latter, arguments that Sasquatch research falls right in line with all the other questionable subjects that have suffered the same fate only to be re-discovered on science's terms.I love the parts where John brings up the fact that early Sasquatch reports detailed anatomical and behavioral features far in advance to those recently brought to light for the other great apes... like meat eating, branch breaking, throwing objects with accuracy, it's odor, to name a few. When science finally catches up with the rest of us, one of the first questions they will ask is what is known about this animal. Guess where they are going to look?As John brings up, science knows that primates and other large mammals came across Beringia in the past. Asia and North America had Elephants, Humans, Camels, not to mention similar plant life. Arguing that there are no great ape fossils within this continent is not really the problem they want us to believe it is. For instance, what was the total amount of woolly mammoths in the Americas? What is the body size ratio of a Gigantopithecus specimen to that of a mammoth? How many remains of the mammoths were too large for nature to do them in compared to something the size of Giganto? You could get rodents carting off Giganto's bones and teeth, but a mammoth tusk? You could also get water, sand and wind erosion eating away a primate bones but something as large as a mammoth would out last them due to the shear bulk. What if the sudden extinction event was so powerful that smaller bodies got pulverized, blown or washed away, versus what we have found for mammoths?Then there is the question of tar pits and what findings coming out of them are misidentified or even boxed up and left unpublished until further examination or more finds to complete them?This, and Johns first book, are some of the very best books ever written on the subject in my opinion and should be included in the personal libraries of all those claiming to be researching or investigating the phenomena. No, I am not afraid of that word anymore.
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