Toes! why such a diverse range?

[Dion]

This is something that has had me thinking for quite some time and has me a little stumped on why we have reports of 3, 4, 5, and even 6 toed tracks found worldwide? Why not just the 3 or 5 toed tracks? Why is there such a diverse range when it comes to toes? I am a little bewildered by this. Are we dealing with many different species? Or do you think it’s because of inbreeding or something more paranormal to it?

What are peoples thoughts?

[lil foot]

have you ever had a good look at a bunch of human feet?
ok, maybe they dont differ by number of toes......often anyway.
but i can tell ya ive seen some weird feet walking around, for instance my aunty has her big toe in the middle of the others, and reminds me of an emu, lolbhb. ( thats laugh out loud behind her back). imagine if someone found her tracks, another new, strange animal out there.
so as i say, maybe not the amount of toes is that varied, but if you look hard enough you will see the reason man invented the shoe.

[deadpool]

A friend of mine has 6 toes. Another only has four. I think it just comes down to pot luck when it comes to toes.

Hell, one of my toes isn't normal either.

[Dion]

Hey Guys

Thanks for your input, looking on the multimedia page http://yowiehunters.com.au/multimediace ... p?album=15

I have come across various prints which are all so different to each other in regards to toe shape, foot shape, length and width. Which suggests there is something a little more going on than just a freak accident of nature (like someone being born with an extra toe or not)

I am no expert yowie feet but it seems to me that there something going on. Different species maybe? Inbreeding? Or something paranormal which is being overlooked?

It has me stumped!

[Yowielover1]

I agree Chewy.

Perhaps the answer is that there actually is multiple species of unknown Bipeds in Australia and the fact that we call the Australian version a Yowie is because we dont have anything other than footprint evidence. When the diversity of footprints is explained by hard physical evidence, we may find that perhaps there are 8 small sub species and 10 different larger ones, some with canine teeth, some without. (numbers out of thin air)

I don't believe for one minute there is only one small species and one large species. Look at the variety of wallabies or possums. Do they all have the same respective number of toes or are they an environmental adaption based on terrain?

[Dion]

Hey Yowielover1 thanks for your input

When the diversity of footprints is explained by hard physical evidence, we may find that perhaps there are 8 small sub species and 10 different larger ones, some with canine teeth, some without. (numbers out of thin air)

You may be right there Yowielover1 anything’s possible? Though I think your numbers may be little excessive

The footprint evidence kind of speaks for itself though don’t you think; The differences in toes 3, 4, 5 and 6 toes and differences in lengths and widths. If this is the case we must be dealing with a number of differing species.

Certainly we can say that we have the larger species and the smaller species (the Junjudee) and then there may be variances among these two species which produces the different footprints, just a thought.

Is it just me or do Junjudee sightings seem to be rare these days? And if that’s the case and we focus on most of the footprints found to be from a larger species we may be looking at major variances of footprints for the larger species. We can only really speculate.

It still all has me a bit stumped though to have all these different species roaming the Australian bush.

[iwanttobelieve]

Hi All.

I'm a little resistant to the paranormal hypothesis for the Yowie phenomenon however if Yowies are some sort of echo from the past (Gigantopithecus ghosts so to speak) maybe the number of toes represent different evolutionary stages of this creatures development?

Personally I prefer to believe there is some kind of species-related flesh-and-blood explanation or it could just be that the number of toes reflect the age, sex or physical development stage of the Yowie (kind of like puberty or wisdom teeth).

Damn Yowies... If they just stood still for one good photo we'd all be happy.

[topender]

Ive gotta say, i have worked in topend for a long time in the health field and i has seen some real GNARLY looking feet on Aboriginal people from remote areas, there is a variety of reasons why feet will deform especially if you run around the scrub all day ...human or yowie