Monday, February 1, 2010

Active Interaction?

Ok this might sound peculiar if you've never been alone for a month or more in the woods but bear with me, this is important. Consider this... you are completely alone in the woods for the past month, no contact with anyone and have not heard any human activity at all, nothing notta zilch. Ok are you there yet? Now you are unarmed except for a small hatchet you cut firewood with and a pocket knife to open your cans. This morning you hear people talking, giggling and sounds of paddles on the side of canoes you suppose they are on the lake paddling across to the far side. Do you go out of your way to interact with these strangers and give away your location or do you sit quiet hoping they don't see your camp? Exactly. You hide in your tent and peer out hoping they don't make out your location. You even scrounge up your binoculars and make certain they're leaving the area.

Another week goes by with no other interruptions, peace and quiet, alone at last. This morning you're awoken by screams, cursing and yelling along with forceful hits against some unknown objects, it sounds like an all out war. This goes on for 10 minutes without a single break in the action. What are you going to do? Hide in the tent or find out if this situation could disrupt into a threat to your safety? Exactly. You are on your way to the location of the violence to decide for yourself if any future threats to you could develop. Enough said.

Is that human nature or is it animal survival? I believe it's both and as such intelligent animals will take precautions to lower their risk of injury or death. Call it the Selfish Gene, if you want? I believe humans and sasquatch are both intelligent beings and both will risk being seen or heard to find a solution to the threat whether real or imagined. What does this mean? You ask.

Well the point I'm trying to make is this...Sure you may get a knock or a whoop from a Sasquatch that's nearby and is watching or listening to you walking through the woods but if you want him to come to you from miles away you will have to be a threat to his safety, or challenge his territory in some way. I'm talking on the same lines as what a big game hunter does with Bear, Elk and Moose calls that challenge his rivals in mating season. I've seen rutting Moose plow through thick undergrowth at 20mph trying to rid their area of would be suitors. It works a good percent of the time, so to with Elk and Bears. Why not try it with the Sasquatch?

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