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| Subject: | | Re: 3-toed tracks |
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Will Duncan
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Tue, Oct 10 2006, 5:54am
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Syndactyly is a very reasonable explanation for the three toed tracks. Frankly, I was stumped by these tracks until a wildlife veterinarian specializing in gorillas explained it to me. |
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| Subject: | | Re: 3-toed tracks |
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de_hart
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Tue, Oct 10 2006, 10:36am
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Syndactyly occurs occasionally in Pygmy chimps, and is common in Siamangs (Symphalangus syndactylus), which I feel bears the closest overall commonalities to bigfoot of the existing apes.
If my recollection of older cryptid literature is correct, the three and four toed tracks were more often associated with non-F&B characteristics, UFO sightings, etc., than were the "normal" BF tracks. But, they seemed to be found in particular regions like you would expect from a recurrent mutation, so it could just be syndactylism. |
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| Subject: | | Re: 3-toed tracks |
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Tue, Oct 10 2006, 8:28pm
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Anyone have a statistic on syndactylism among us? |
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| Subject: | | Re: 3-toed tracks |
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DarkWolf
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Wed, Oct 11 2006, 2:31am
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Syndactylism seems like a pretty good explanation. Like brad said though, the 3-toed tracks mostly occur in the south,which seems odd. Anyone know of any PNW 3-toed tracks? Then you've got 4-toed tracks that go along with the Mark A. Hall term "True Giants",a huge 10-20 ft. tall sasquatch. I don't think they occur anywhere but in the Pacific NW. But, I can't see any benefit to having 3 toes in a southern U.S. enviroment, or 4 toes in the PNW enviroment, so I guess I'm ready to settle on syndactylism, well..until I get another crazy idea at least. The white carnivorous bigfoot is among you all..beware! Hey, if you can't laugh a little at your own ideas..you can't take 'em seriously either! :) |
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| Subject: | | Re: 3-toed tracks |
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de_hart
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Thu, Oct 12 2006, 2:48am
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Good question Nammi. I've noticed that there's much talk of how human-like or non-human-like footprints are, yet there is no standard of human-ness to go by in that there hasn't been a definitive study that I'm aware of in regards to average toe lengths and placement, etc. Some people's big toes are longer than the second and vice-versa. And, I'm sure there's variances for races, regional differences, etc. I'd like to see syndactyl human, chimp, and gibbon prints to compare to 3 and 4 toed bigfoot tracks, too. |
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