@patience I don't know what it is, but an actual animal, probably not...
@chiasm …go on, elaborate…
@patience well, if they were all in the Amazon or the Rockies or somewhere sparsely settled, they could maybe survive and stay hidden. But they need a certain base population to not go extinct, and that population would need a whopping lot of food. Given all the reports of sightings all over settled farm land and rural areas, with no evidence of what they are killing and eating/leaving behind, they are not behaving like your average animal.
@chiasm over the last fifteen or so years, there’s been an increased data-aggregated triangulation of permanent habitat regions across the continent (where activity is clustered either year-round, or at the same time each year); several nomadic corridors in between, in which they can take cover (such as aforementioned cave systems), and also go where the food is, seasonally speaking
@patience and in thinking about the overlap with bears, that map looks a lot like this one: https://geology.com/stories/13/bear-areas/
@patience Yeah, I've seen this, though that was from almost 10 years ago now (the map of sightings). https://www.livescience.com/39785-bigfoot-map-sasquatch-sightings-gis.html