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Bear or bigfoot?

Good catch..

Here is your image and another of correctly identified bear tracks.. Can't believe Meldrum hasn't been nailed by a peer, who knows what bear tracks are.



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Bears and Alderfoot.. Oh, well..

When you don't have an actual creature, guess you give it your best shot, and hope no one notices..
 
I'm just impressed by the incredible length of the toes. :bearface:
 
And what if the toes overlapped in perfect alignment? Wouldn't you have a "Midtarsel break" ?

(edit), posted while waiting for the whole PDF to download over my dial-up. Seems obvious that's what fig.9 shows, now.
 
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uhm...

Big bear... Bearfoot...

It does not matter, its HERESY!!!:monkey1:

READ KRANTZ!:book: :teacher:
 
Diogenes said:
Good catch..

Here is your image and another of correctly identified bear tracks.. Can't believe Meldrum hasn't been nailed by a peer, who knows what bear tracks are.

Bears and Alderfoot.. Oh, well..

When you don't have an actual creature, guess you give it your best shot, and hope no one notices..
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I guess there is no good explanation for Meldrum, other than that he seems to be a bizarre, credulous individual who also happens to have a PhD. He is a lot like Krantz in that respect. Credentialed scientists must be allowed the opportunity to be dolts, just like anyone else.
 
It's wierd how Meldrum can not recognise bear tracks, when there are plenty of "standard" bear tracks to compare them to, but thinks he can positively identify the tracks of an animal as yet unknown to science. :pawprint:
 
Many years ago, I think it might have been S.J. Perelman who told a shaggy dog story about a Chinese shopkeeper who kept losing his little wood carvings. Finally on a snowy day he saw small human-like foot prints in the snow, but when he followed them there was a bear with a handful of his wares. It was, of course, a boyfoot bear with teaks of Chan.

Those must be his footprints now that he's grown up.
 
It's in Meldrum's first example.

He has clearly mistaken overlapping bear tracks here. I have looked at that page ten times and never noticed the pic in the corner before until a few days ago when I started this thread. Strange.

Note that Meldrum also claims there were dermatoglyphs:

Tracks in the Blue Mountains
The author examined fresh footprints first-hand in 1996, near the Umatilla National Forest, outside Walla Walla, Washington. The isolated trackway comprised in excess of 40 discernible footprints on a muddy farm road, across a plowed field, and along an irrigation ditch. The footprints measured approximately 35 cm (13.75 in) long and 13 cm (5.25 in) wide. Step length ranged from 1.0 - 1.3 m. Limited examples of faint dermatoglyphics were apparent, but deteriorated rapidly under the wet weather conditions. Individual footprints exhibited variations in toe position that were consistent with inferred walking speed and accommodation of irregularities in the substrate. A flat foot was indicated with an elongated heel segment. Seven individual footprints were preserved as casts.
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It appears our expert isn't really too good with footprints.

I see another bear print on that page, methinks...
 
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Isn't it rather dishonest to not post the photos of other tracks in the trackway? The track in question is a half track; note the lack of claw marks. The others are clearly not bear.

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Oh yes. Much better. Another footprint that fits perfectly with bigfoot´s "peculiar" anatomic features.:monkeyr:

I´ve just been converted, I mean convinced.:id:

Has anyone seen claw marks in the bear footprint pic posted by Diogenes? Bears from bigfootland must be different from those found in the real world.
 
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The others are clearly not bear.
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The one I posted is clearly bear, though. The claws don't always show.

I notice that the fact that Meldrum can't recognize a bear track doesn't bother you Lu.

Why?

Why would he include an obvious bear track with "bigfoot" tracks that look nothing like it?

Bigfoot now has a rounded foot and toes like a bear's, I suppose....
 
Isn't it rather dishonest to not post the photos of other tracks in the trackway?
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I posted a link to all of those photos Lu, and explained about how I had seen it elsewhere and just didn't make the connection.

Isn't it a bit dishonest to lie, Lu? You do it so often, though.....

The others are clearly not bear.
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Since you clearly can't tell, I'll do without your opinion on the matter.
 
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Let's just keep this in mind folks:

Dr. Meldrum uses this bear print in his pdf report as an example of Bigfoot's midtarsal break. He doesn't use any of the other prints. Just this one.

There is no other print from that "trackway" in the document. Presumably because they don't show the "midtarsal break".....

He has allowed his "midtarsal break" blindness to take over and prevent him from noticing what is obviously bear tracks.

Incidentally, in that report (linked to in my first post) there are a few more photos that would interest bigfoot skeptics.
 
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