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| Evolution Of Sasquatch |
By TCC Team Member Dorraine Fisher Professional Writer, a nature and wildlife enthusiast who has written for many magazines.
Have Humans Shaped The Evolution Of Sasquatch?
By TCC Team Member Dorraine Fisher
We humans impact our world every day in ways we don’t even realize. And one way is our influence over other creatures around us. We all live on earth together and we all need to find ways to eat, avoid danger, and reproduce. That’s the only way any species can survive. But we impact other species as well.
Think about all the wildlife that lives close to us in our backyards. In our advancements in civilization and mastery of our surroundings, we’ve actually changed the behavior and evolution of the squirrels and rabbits that live there?
In order for certain animals to exist close to us, they have to watch us closely and learn our habits in order to survive literally under our feet. It would be to their evolutionary benefit to observe problems we create for them and adjust their life patterns and adapt themselves in order to occupy the same spaces we do.
For instance they might learn the nature of vehicle traffic in order to cross the street without getting killed. And those that survived became the parents of the next, more evolved generation of traffic evaders. Those little animals on the bottom of the food chain that we believe to be much less intelligent than ourselves, have actually adapted a brand of their own super-intelligence in order to continue existing in great numbers in heavily human-occupied areas.
Our very own pet dogs are the most extreme example of this. Scientists theorize that dogs came to exist when certain groups of wolves began to follow humans and scavenge their camps. Particular wolves found they could make an easier living off food scraps left by humans, and they soon made a habit of following them. As time passed and they advanced closer to human camps and villages, some of the wolves realized if they endeared themselves to humans and acted friendly, they could get closer to food or even have food given to them. They gave birth to their offspring closer to humans and we found other benefits to having them around, and man’s best friend entered the human scene forever. Our species profoundly influenced the evolution of theirs. To this day our dogs watch us constantly and are always learning how to live with us better. It’s a true miracle of biology.
And it’s no different with sasquatches, though the reasons may be different. The Sasquatch is a very successful species that has evolved such amazing skills that some humans believe them to be almost magical. They move amazingly fast for their size, hide amazingly well, and are experts at hunting and finding many different food sources. In the interest of surviving alongside humans for thousands of years, it has been in their evolutionary interests to adapt those amazing skills.
Sasquatches are super-sized omnivores. And for very large animals to exist on earth requires a supreme ability to find enough food, avoid danger, and maintain a viable breeding population. And since sasquatches are dominant predators at the top of the food chain, humans are the only other species that present any real threat to them.
So it would certainly be in their best interests to study humans and observe the problems we create for them and adapt themselves around them. Sasquatches have evolved these incredible skills, at least in part, to live in a world where another highly intelligent species dwells also. According to legend, they’ve encountered humans regularly since the beginning of the human story. And due to their shy nature and their will to survive, they’ve evolved an amazing camouflaged appearance and superior skills for hiding and escaping. They need those skills to hunt, of course, but they also need them to avoid their only natural enemy: us.
Animals evolve themselves in relation to other animals all the time, and it’s very possible that sasquatches are no different.
They manage to stay hidden from us very well and yet still manage to be highly successful in their own world. But we don’t necessarily have the monopoly on intelligence or dominance no matter how much we’d like to think so. And interestingly enough, as we study them in the wild and learn their habits and begin to understand their rare talents and abilities and unlock all the mysteries about them, maybe they’ll begin to change our evolution also.
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