Posted: Wed Jan 28, 2015 5:39 pm
Insaeldor wrote:Securitan wrote:Very good. However, if I were a westerner in 1840, it would be irrational for me to believe in something with absolutely no evidence. More people exist today than they did then, so obviously the chances of someone running across and killing a Bigfoot would've taken less time than it took 150 years ago. Also, people back then were not actively searching for gorillas like people are searching for Bigfeet today.
Given the remoteness of these locations it completly plausibly to not run across these animals. I mean we discover new species all the time so it's not impossible for an animal to live secluded from scientific discovery within the remote woodland of British Columbia.
Many of those weren't just-discovered, but just-identified. Not every specimen is recognized as a new species at first; sometimes they're misidentified or just assumed to be of a very similar species known to exist in the region. Others are discovered by non-scientists yet aren't really considered important enough to biologists to go about identifying (see: a large number of the newer loricariids in the aquarium industry that have yet to be officially described and given a scientific name). Others are tiny and in out-of-the-way places.
Megafauna like a Bigfoot, unlikely to be mistaken for something else or left for later scientists to describe, is just not going to pop up in someplace as well-travelled as the northwest (or Florida, even moreso!)