I’m not sure about 75% but it is an interesting subject and I do think the consensus view is slightly too sceptical. I don’t have any expertise but one thing that always sticks out to me as decreasing the likelihood of bigfoot’s existence is the lack of remains. Ok, I buy encounters could be rare enough so that there isn’t one within the advent of the smartphone. But where are the skeletons? Is part of the claim they might have some type of burial grounds? Very remote territory they stick to without exceptions?
It’s discussed in the Reddit comments, if you want more details, but briefly: A rare species with a long life might leave on the order of ~100 dead a year. If each corpse has, say 1e-5 chance (low but still plausible number) of being found by a person, then it could take a while.
I don’t know of any claim that they would take care of their dead, but I don’t see that as implausible.
I’m not sure about 75% but it is an interesting subject and I do think the consensus view is slightly too sceptical. I don’t have any expertise but one thing that always sticks out to me as decreasing the likelihood of bigfoot’s existence is the lack of remains. Ok, I buy encounters could be rare enough so that there isn’t one within the advent of the smartphone. But where are the skeletons? Is part of the claim they might have some type of burial grounds? Very remote territory they stick to without exceptions?
It’s discussed in the Reddit comments, if you want more details, but briefly: A rare species with a long life might leave on the order of ~100 dead a year. If each corpse has, say 1e-5 chance (low but still plausible number) of being found by a person, then it could take a while.
I don’t know of any claim that they would take care of their dead, but I don’t see that as implausible.