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Why doesn't bigfoot use tools?

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Bigfoot is supposedly a very intelligent primate. Far more intelligent than the non-human primates we are familiar with. Able to avoid humans, able to sense and avoid game cameras, able to conceal it's tracks, etc.

So why doesn't bigfoot use tools?

Or, if you believe they do use tools, what is the evidence for this?

We have this from OntarioSquatch FAQ:

For it to posses that level of intelligence and adapt to live in North America’s harsh wilderness without the use of tools means it could possess both physical and mental qualities that make it easy for it to evade humans.
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This from the BFRO:

Tool Use

This trait of the human species is largely absent in the sasquatch. As mentioned above, they use branches and rocks to hit trees or other rocks and they throw rocks and other objects out of hiding to scare people out of their territory (as do chimpanzees). Only one case has come to my attention of a boy being inadvertently hit by such a thrown rock (though not seriously injured). Rare reports indicate the possibility of the sasquatch using sticks to kill birds or mammals or to dig in the ground with them.

On one occasion they were observed to fashion "straws" out of the stalks of dead weeds and to drink through them out of a metal tub. They are undoubtedly observant of human appurtenances, such as guns or obvious cameras, and may then take extra care to avoid exposure.
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Accounts of tool use seem to be rare, and rudimentary with bigfoot.

Yet we have many accounts of tool use among other non-human primates:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tool_use_by_animals#Primates

Bigfoot has also supposedly had a long time in the company of humans, interacting with and observing them.

It seems like bigfoot ought to be an accomplished tool user.
 
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Knapping dates back to 2.5 mya. Just before that time, you would have had some very intelligent bipedal apes that didn't create tools. It goes well with the theory that at some point, hominini developed hands that have the manual dexterity required to make tools. Accurate throws and precise hands are both uniquely human traits.
 
You know seeing as Bigfoot is obviously smarter than we are (somehow avoiding capture for literally ever) it should have better tools than us. Some guy going squatching one day will surely say "look Jim, there is one right over there..." And get vaporized by a laser.
 
And Bigfoot does have tools, just go to any pro Bigfoot forum, its full of them.
 
And Bigfoot does have tools, just go to any pro Bigfoot forum, its full of them.
 
OntarioSquatch said:
Knapping dates back to 2.5 mya. Just before that time, you would have had some very intelligent bipedal apes that didn't create tools. It goes well with the theory that at some point, hominini developed hands that have the manual dexterity required to make tools. Accurate throws and precise hands are both uniquely human traits.
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Another wonderful study in BLAARGing.

Evasion of the question while diverting into misleading extraneous information. There are three forms of lying: direct lie, lie by omission, and lie by inclusion of extraneous misleading information. I prefer the term "deception" in this instance, but the literature categorizes it as lying regardless.

The last sentence is the key misleading statement, by substituting "Accurate throws and precise hands" for "tool use". But so is the knapping reference because tool use includes things like stripping leaves off twigs to dig for insects. Not only is it hard to preserve a twig for millions of years, but it is impossible to identify it as a tool even it was preserved. The only way we discovered other primates using them was seeing it, not by finding twigs.

BLAARGing like this demonstrates the acumen to piece together the whole play, part of which is looking up information on human tool use, but the more complicated part of which is developing the strategy for misleading people.

It is generally important to work from insinuation on the most critical part of the deception instead of stating things directly. One reason is creating plausible deniability (I didn't SAY "bigfoot can't use tools because tools are uniquely human").

The second reason is because saying it directly is so obviously wrong: the OP already proved tool use is not uniquely human. So insinuation is far superior as a strategy.

Does the person who constructs such a complicated deception know what he is doing? Nobody knows better than the person doing it. That is the beginning of the problem for the BLAARGer: piecing together the deception.

You can't acknowledge how wrong it is in the face of the responses, despite that taking less acumen than constructing the deception in the first place. The "long con", as they call it in the literature, requires a never-ending and repetitive set of tactics concealing the fact you don't believe in bigfoot in the first place.
 
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AlaskaBushPilot said:
Another wonderful study in BLAARGing.

Evasion of the question while diverting into misleading extraneous information. There are three forms of lying: direct lie, lie by omission, and lie by inclusion of extraneous misleading information. I prefer the term "deception" in this instance, but the literature categorizes it as lying regardless.

The last sentence is the key misleading statement, by substituting "Accurate throws and precise hands" for "tool use". But so is the knapping reference because tool use includes things like stripping leaves off twigs to dig for insects. Not only is it hard to preserve a twig for millions of years, but it is impossible to identify it as a tool even it was preserved. The only way we discovered other primates using them was seeing it, not by finding twigs.

BLAARGing like this demonstrates the acumen to piece together the whole play, part of which is looking up information on human tool use, but the more complicated part of which is developing the strategy for misleading people.

It is generally important to work from insinuation on the most critical part of the deception instead of stating things directly. One reason is creating plausible deniability (I didn't SAY "bigfoot can't use tools because tools are uniquely human").

The second reason is because saying it directly is so obviously wrong: the OP already proved tool use is not uniquely human. So insinuation is far superior as a strategy.

Does the person who constructs such a complicated deception know what he is doing? Nobody knows better than the person doing it. That is the beginning of the problem for the BLAARGer: piecing together the deception.

You can't acknowledge how wrong it is in the face of the responses, despite that taking less acumen than constructing the deception in the first place. The "long con", as they call it in the literature, requires a never-ending and repetitive set of tactics concealing the fact you don't believe in bigfoot in the first place.
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I meant to say accurate throwing and tool creation. One wrong word and I'm accused of "BLAARGing". You could have asked why and I would have clarified, but instead you feel the need to make assumptions.

I'll make the answer a little simpler:

"Bigfoot" might not have the dexterity necessary for tool creation/knapping. The same way chimps and gorillas don't.
 
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I had not heard of this before:
Chimpanzees in the Nimba Mountains of Guinea, Africa, use both stone and wooden cleavers, as well as stone anvils, to chop up and reduce Treculia fruits into smaller bite-sized portions. These fruits, which can be the size of a volleyball and weigh up to 8.5 kg, are hard and fibrous. But, despite lacking a hard outer shell, they are too large for a chimpanzee to get its jaws around and bite into. Instead, the chimpanzees use a range of tools to chop them into smaller pieces. This is the first account of chimpanzees using a pounding tool technology to break down large food items into bite-sized chunks rather than just extract it from other unobtainable sources such as baobab nuts. It is also the first time wild chimpanzees have been found to use two distinct types of percussive technology, i.e. movable cleavers against a non-movable anvil, to achieve the same goal. Neighbouring chimpanzees in the nearby region of Seringbara do not process their food in this way, indicating how tool use among apes is culturally learnt
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LTC8K6 said:
Bigfoot is supposedly a very intelligent primate. Far more intelligent than the non-human primates we are familiar with. Able to avoid humans, able to sense and avoid game cameras, able to conceal it's tracks, etc.

So why doesn't bigfoot use tools?

Or, if you believe they do use tools, what is the evidence for this?

We have this from OntarioSquatch FAQ:



This from the BFRO:



Accounts of tool use seem to be rare, and rudimentary with bigfoot.

Yet we have many accounts of tool use among other non-human primates:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tool_use_by_animals#Primates

Bigfoot has also supposedly had a long time in the company of humans, interacting with and observing them.

It seems like bigfoot ought to be an accomplished tool user.
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Bigfoots do use tools, we just haven't found them yet.
 
LTC8K6 said:
Bigfoot is supposedly a very intelligent primate. Far more intelligent than the non-human primates we are familiar with. Able to avoid humans, able to sense and avoid game cameras, able to conceal it's tracks, etc.
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How do you think it manages to avoid us? Intelligence helps, but just being smart is not enough. The fact that Bigfoot continues to evade even our most advanced tech proves that it must have better tech.

Bigfoot does use tools, we just don't recognize them as such. For example, Bigfoot sometimes wears a disguise that makes it look like a man in a body suit. Another tool often used by Bigfoot is the cloak of invisibility. There are actually thousands of Bigfoots wandering around all over the place, but we will never see them unless they want to be seen.

Also, have you ever wondered why we can't find any scat, hair, or DNA evidence of their presence? That's because Bigfoot cleans up after itself with with a super-powerful vacuum cleaner (which is also silent, invisible and powered by free energy).

And this is just some of the tech that we know Bigfoot must have. As for the rest, we can only dream of some day developing the technology to make everybody think we don't exist - but Bigfoot already has it!
 
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