Big foot print

I have every admiration for a creature such a Bigfoot, also known as Sasquatch, who has been able to survive physically and also on an almost mythological level.

This has been in the face of human inquisitiveness, intrusion and a small minority who have sought to demonise it as justification behind many attempts to be the first to trap or kill and exhibit one for material gain and celebrity.

There are not many species left in their ever diminishing natural habitats and it becomes increasingly dangerous, challenging and stressful for those so endangered to maintain a viable existence.

Bigfoot must be a most intelligent and evolved creature in its evasion of direct conflict with man in more recent years. This is in spite of historic eye witness accounts of attacks by large ape-man like animals on hunters, campers and forest dwellings and of course those shaky, grainy and indecisive Super 8mm and video images of shapeless and hairy forms lolloping at quite a leisurely pace into the viewfinder and with a slow turn and disdainful glance at the petrified and traumatised camera-wielding person.

A latest development has once again brought the living legend into sharp focus.

This is not another sighting, oversized wide fit plaster cast footprint or a sequel to Harry and The Hendersons after a 25 year absence but the revelation by a Texas based Scientific team that Bigfoot is related to humans.

This is even more obvious than you may have thought based on the very close compatability of genetics of mankind and monkeys in our wider perception.

Bigfoot is reputed to be a crossbreed of a human female and an unknown primate in the mists of time, some 15,000 years ago. The DNA of Bigfoot through sequencing has brought forward this startling revelation which has stirred up a considerable amount of controversy.

The process by which this claim has to be verified is very prolonged through peer review and technically cannot yet be regarded as a true discovery. Here, as they say is the science bit.........

"20 whole mitochondrial genomes were sequenced through next generation techniques to obtain 3 whole nuclear genomes from purported Sasquatch hair samples" .

I thought as much myself.

Furthermore, this has indicated close identity to modern Homo Sapiens but with a novel unknown hominid, the result of a cross breeding. Comparison with existing DNA profiles has not produced a match. The morality and sexual tendencies of Neanderthal females is not questioned in this regard.

What are the implications for Bigfoot if this line of DNA investigation is in fact ratified?

There are already calls for Bigfoot to have human rights and inevitably this could lead to all the protection and status afforded an indigenous people.

I say, ingenious more like.

If I were Bigfoot, stuck up in the mountainous and forested wildernesses of the central and north west USA, a hostile environment and climate at the best of times and ever fearful of being hunted, trapped or killed I would certainly consider leaving a few strands of hair on tree trunks or picnic area tables for easy sampling and testing by scientists.

Just think of how human and constutitional rights would be, to this resourceful relative, such a big foot forward.