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The Texas or Louisiana Bigfoot seems to show 3 toes. It is thought it might be an imbred type of thing. It makes them mean too. The area they live in is getting populated with people and housing which makes them imbred to stay alive it seems. Is there a problem in Australia with Yowies in the same way? :

G'day Bill,

From what I've read we do seem to have the same characteristics here in some areas, as you say it may be a result of a certain amount of inbreeding or also possibly a variation along the lines of sloths eg: 2 & 3 toed sloths.

Cheers
Rob Mac

Hello Rob Mac,

Thanks for the information. The basic Bigfoot seems to fit the Yowie traits and vise versa.

I like your picture you have as your avatar. The deer hiding above the hunter. I put a different spin on it and put a caption at the bottom," While Bigfoot is on the ground everything stays in the trees!"

Hmm, 3 toes, 4 toes, 5 toes, more toes.

There seems to be some debate about the number of toes on our hairy cryptic primate friends. Personally I dont see this as an issue.

Humans have been known to have 6 toes or even 6 fingers, sometimes both. Its called polydactalism. The reverse also happens with somep people being born with fewer digits.

To get an idea of how this can be so, take a look at the Chimpanzee. Not because it has anomalous toe counts, but simply because of their genetic variation. Genetic variation within the Chimpanzees, is far greated than between our 6.3 billion humans covering the entire globe. How can that be?

The answer is simple isolation.

Humans range far and wide, intermixing readily with populations separated over vast distances. Of course there was that supervolcano (Toba) that went POP and nearly wiped us out 70,000 years ago. It limited genetic variation somwhat. Today, we have one sub-species of Human left (that we know of).

The Chimpanzee on the other hand tends to live in isolated population groups. These groups rarely if ever intermix and so their genetics do not intermix. Over time the variation between one isolated population and another can grow somewhat. So much so that we have several sub-species of Chimpanzee in Africa. Each somewhat different from the next to varying degrees.

So what about our cryptic hominid friends?

They live in isolated population groups and have done for who knows how long. Today is even worse, as we have carved the landscape up with cities, roads, freeways, boundaries and borders etc, isolating groups even further. The variation between one population group and another could be enormous in genetic terms.

And this might just be reflected in the number of toes on their feet, even fingers on their hands.

Isolation and inbreeding could be having an effect on these population groups. The effects could ultimately lead to their extinction (I sincerely hope not).

Regards

Folcrom

And this might just be reflected in the number of toes on their feet, even fingers on their hands.

It seems the same Bigfoot that has three toes has only four fingers. It leaves hand prints on the ground when walking on all fours. The thumb is flat off to the side not up like gorillas. The knuckles seem to show only three. Possible four fingered animal with three toes.