....How many skeletons of any animal have you seen in the woods....
Many and I have several in my collection...skulls only. I recently hiked at the Cumberland island National Seashore where they posted signs prohibiting the removal of any bones or skulls.
If you spend much time in the woods, you’ll see them from time to time.
Many and I have several in my collection...skulls only. [...] If you spend much time in the woods, you’ll see them from time to time.
Must not have much for porcupine down in the Cumberlands. Up here in the Rockies, old bones are pretty few and far between... porkies eat 'em, skulls and all. Need the calcium, I'd guess.
Then one must weigh the relative population: One might find a relatively common deer or elk kill, fresh to a month or two old... I have seen quite a few in my time. But carnivores killed in the wild are rather rare- I have seen one black bear carcass and one wolverine carcass that I can recall (natural, high country death, not attributable to man).
That is because carnivores are comparatively small in population and large in range, so it is statistically more unlikely that one might find such a carcass compared to the more populous herd animals.
As to Sasquatch, I cannot say for certain, as I never saw the creature, but I am pretty sure I heard one call- Very much like the recordings attributed to them.
I am an accomplished high country woodsman, and a hunter with bow and rifle, and am quite familiar with all the sounds normally generated in the forest.
This was unique, incredibly robust, and hair raising. My dog at the time, a half-Wolf/Malamute-Shepherd mutt, known for tusslin' with bears for fun, spent the rest of the night glued right up next to me, worried, and whining as all get out. If he didn't want to mess with it, neither did I.