I definitely believe in the ivory-billed woodpecker. Oh wait, we were discussing bigfoot? J/K
No but really, you need to think of how many birders, botanists, and other hard core naturalists who put countless hours and effort into finding anything that is extremely rare and remote and possibly extinct. Maybe if you don't hang out with the hard core types who can tell you from memory that the last male of X species was seen in that canyon in 1996 but a female was observed halfway around the world multiple times in the past three years etc etc. Or watch a person who actually knows animal tracking and what they can tell from one blade of bent grass and a poof of dirt to one side. It sounds easy for there to be animals this big "out there" in these very remote areas, but in reality the chances such a thing would have escaped detection by someone who could document it properly, including by sound, smell, and signs the large animal was around such as scat etc., are too infinitesimal for me to believe.
No but really, you need to think of how many birders, botanists, and other hard core naturalists who put countless hours and effort into finding anything that is extremely rare and remote and possibly extinct. Maybe if you don't hang out with the hard core types who can tell you from memory that the last male of X species was seen in that canyon in 1996 but a female was observed halfway around the world multiple times in the past three years etc etc. Or watch a person who actually knows animal tracking and what they can tell from one blade of bent grass and a poof of dirt to one side. It sounds easy for there to be animals this big "out there" in these very remote areas, but in reality the chances such a thing would have escaped detection by someone who could document it properly, including by sound, smell, and signs the large animal was around such as scat etc., are too infinitesimal for me to believe.
