Immortal Bigfoot? Sure!

Bigfoot
by Patrick
05/10/2009, 10:13 PM #

You know how people say that Bigfoot can't exist because we'd see evidence of a population, like bones and stuff. I know this is stupid, but what if there's a Bigfoot but no population precisely because the creature is immortal or quasi-immortal (meaning lives for a very long time)? I know it's a stretch, but it also seems a stretch to assume that population dynamics would be the same for every creature on earth. This also assumes that there's a real history behind Bigfoot, like with the ancient American Indians and that "the white man" doesn't use the myth as one sees Jesus in an oxidation stain - basically seeing patterns where there really isn't one. I mean, I'm sure most of the Bigfoot phenomena is a general legend for seeing weird things that you can't quite make out, but if there's any substance beyond the myth, what if there's no population because it's too spread out and the creatures have a really long life span? Consider for example a school of fish - this gets them spotted by predators, and this causes a quick lifespan generally or early reproduction age whatever. If they didn't have predators though, they'd live longer for example and grow in body size, which was indeed the case with a study I saw once with guppies. Yet, what if instead the opposite happened? Instead of decreased lifespan with condensed population we have instead increased lifespan with a more spread out lifespan? In this case, safety is not with numbers but in being solitary? After all, what do criminals do when they escape prison? "You go that way, I'll go this way, and you go that way". It diminishes the chance of getting caught. So what if these "Bigfoot" creatures (lol) do something similar? They spread out and they have increased lifespans. Maybe they also learned in the distant past to avoid Homo sapiens? I'm not all that serious about all this you know; just having some fun. But what if Bigfoot doesn't have a real population because they have lengthy lifespans and a spread out population being solitary creatures? Worse yet, what if Bigfoot is somehow immortal? I suppose the same could be said of the Loch Ness monster. There are newly discovered species all the time though? Fact, I saw one weird looking creature on History channel's 'Monsterquest', some aquatic looking animal that you could tell was an animal but nothing you've seen before. Pretty cool episode.