Bigfoot = Siamang?
Is Bigfoot basically a giant siamang? According to BFRO President Matt Moneymaker, there are tons of similarities the undiscovered North American primate has compared to the siamang of Asia. We were curious about the siamang, so we looked it up on Wikipedia and found this description about their calls -- a behavior akin to Bigfoot:
The siamang starts its day by calling in the early morning; it calls less after midday, with the peak of the calls around 9:00 am to 10:00 am. Most of the siamang's calls are directed to its neighbours rather than to inside its home range. This means the siamang's calling is in response to disturbances and to defend its territory. Calls in the late morning typically happen when it meets or sees another siamang group. The edge of the siamang's home range, which may overlap another, is often the place where calling is made. Counter (co-response) calling occasionally happens near the border or in the overlap area. Calls are numerous when fruit is more abundant rather than when it is less available. Branch shaking, swinging, and moving around the tree crowns accompany the calling. This movement might be to show the other groups where they are.
The siamang prefers calling in the living, high and big trees, possibly where another group is easy to see. Besides that, living, big, and tall trees can support siamang movement. Calling trees are usually near feeding trees, but sometimes they call in the feeding trees.
Mated pairs produce loud, well-patterned calling bouts, which is referred to as duetting. These calls function to advertise the presence and status of a mated pair. Newly formed pairs spend more time singing than an established pair. Advertising the presence of a strong bond is advantageous in territorial defense. Siamang duetting differs from other species because it has a particularly complex vocal structure. Four distinct classes of vocalizations have been documented: booms, barks, ululating screams and bitonal screams. Females typically produce long barks and males generally produce bitonal screams, but both sexes have been known to produce all four classes of vocalization.
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Pretty interesting, right? We'll see what else Moneymaker has to say about the "connections" between Bigfoot and the siamang.
Oh brother.
ReplyDeleteOh slow, half-wit brother the family keeps in the attic and doesn't talk about.
Deletehaha my thoughts exactly.
DeleteWe are a kind of Siamang.
DeleteNo. Not interesting. Moneymaker is an idiot and someone who's been doing this as long as he has should know better. He's been perpetuating the "monkey" myth for far too long. But it pays the bills, eh Matt?
DeleteMoneymaker comes across like a complete buffoon.
DeleteHot on the heels of yesterdays BS about Giganto we have this Siamang nonsense.
If BF was a type of Siamang it would be 'known' species. These animals simply wouldn't be smart enough to evade Justin Smeja.
MMG
M M, on the cutting edge of all that is fresh and new in the bigfoot world. Even if he is making it up. Just as long as he makes it up before anyone else. Thats how he stays on top of the heap.
ReplyDeleteDeer are bigfoot food and cows are people food.
DeleteAnd bf have brown noses too.
DeleteThat's why we all get along, Foz.
DeleteAs a Platinum Level Cryptozoologist I say sasquatches are basically Earthbound Wookies.
ReplyDeleteLOL!
DeleteFozzie, you are now the most compelling voice in the Bigfoot community. Fuck Dr. Johnson.
DeleteGround dwelling, big Siamangs? Nonsense!
ReplyDeleteJust MM trying to justify saying the Matilda footage is real, because it has siamang nose and teeth.
ReplyDeleteYeah. This. Remember he said bigfoots have black noses? That's because he saw the Matilda footage before anyone else and bought into it. The same way he did the Penn and Teller hoax. This guy has been wrong more times than anyone realizes but he NEVER backtracks. Just obfuscates and then attacks anyone who criticizes him. Remember the mass exodus of BFRO curators? They know...
DeleteI believe M M was the one who shot the footage of Matilda. He was paid by Erickson project to go in and take footage. Pretty sure thats what he said himself when Rictor interviewed him sometime within the last year.
DeleteOh, god. He did not.
DeleteThese two bozos are the most credible people in sasquatchdom.
ReplyDeleteSo Moneymaker thinks Bigfoots are just animals? What about all those human smarts?
ReplyDeleteApparently not smart enough to use fire or tools.
DeleteWhy do all follow-up comments to "researcher" proclamations always sound like fawning little girls made them?
ReplyDeleteTee hee
Delete^ Prairie Dawn
DeletePREVIOUS POST TO SEE JOE BEING IMMENSELY AND UTTERLY DESTROYED AS EVER
ReplyDeleteTrue Dat. True dat.
DeleteThat one was harsh and nasty
Where's your crown?
DeleteWhere's your taterhole, anonymous Joe? ^^
DeleteI'VE BEEN TRACKING SIAMANGS FOR 25 YEARS
ReplyDeleteI've seen Siamangs, They're here.
DeleteAnd here we have the Moneymaker's attemp to seem a real scientist. He read a paper about a monkey and immediately goes out shouting "LOOK! I DO KNOW OTHER MONKEYS! I'M A REAL PRIMATOLOGIST!
DeleteThere's siamang on the hill!
DeleteI think Bigfoots are a kind of a person, a person with monkey-like traits, more like a monkey, really, or an ape, to be specific, with human-like traits. Many similarities between humans with monkey-like traits and monkeys with human-like traits. This I believe science will someday prove, in one way or another.
ReplyDeleteWow, George, how big can they get, huh? When do you think we'll find out, huh? When, George? When? Oops I was so excited I just crushed my bunny rabbit.
DeleteAnon 9:38, that is a groundbreaking theory. You forgot to include lemurs and swamp eels though. And dolphins. And ponies. And turtles.
DeleteI predict science will someday prove Sasquatches are basically giant costumes.
ReplyDeleteBoring. Siamangs? Boring! We want cool monster people or GTFO, BFRO!
ReplyDeleteHey Joe! Where are you? We need your expert opinion on what Matt MoneyMaker is stating. Do you have any information on this? We need your input! Make your response about 30 paragraph's long. There's space here, no one else needs to comment here today. They say stupid in-mature stuff, not like you.
ReplyDeleteA JOEFAN!
There once was a fellow named Matt
ReplyDeleteWho hunted for Sasquatch's scat.
He never could muster
Much more than a cluster,
You see where I'm going with that.
No. Please continue.
DeleteSecond thought, STFU.
This fellow from England named Joe
ReplyDeleteWas constantly trolled, don't you know.
And so he got wasted
Then copy and pasted,
His own answers coming too slow.
Isnt he Welsh?
DeleteThis Welshman who posted named Joe
Delete/fixed!
No he is really a guy in Texas though.
DeleteDeaf bigfoots speak siamanguage
ReplyDeleteJoe has turned me from a Footer to the biggest skeptic in the world, seriously
ReplyDeleteYou know, I was a pretty serious Footer until one day I saw the photo of Loren Coleman standing next to the Bigfoot statue/model in his museum. Google it. It made me feel really uncomfortable. Bigfoots are interesting g in the abstract, but to see that giant figure and imagine it alive in the forest, in great numbers or not, just seems laughable. To think that they have superior elusive abilities is ridiculous. I want to believe, and I know a lot of people report sightings, but visualizing it like that left me cold. Not a dig, just where I am.
Delete"To think that they have superior elusive abilities is ridiculous." is a close-minded dig.
DeleteJoe has turned me from a serious Skeptic, into a footer1 So there!
ReplyDeleteBALL BOY?
Deleteone day I predict science will someday prove Moneymaker is basically a giant tv monemaking land dwelling poopy head
ReplyDeleteIs Bigfoot related to the Giantwasteoftimebear?
ReplyDeleteBF certainly seems to wasting your time.
DeleteMMG
I've just finished a poll, and found out that 99.9% of Skeptics, never left the concrete pavement in their lives! (except for Town or city parks), and they also hardly ever leave their home/apartment, and sit in Starbucks all day, playing with their electronic gadgets!
ReplyDeleteThey also watch reruns of the "Lord of the Rings" movies, dreaming about the day, when they will become a MAN, and go out on an adventure! Pathetic Fools!
when the Chinese attack, and take over our country. You little Girly boys will become their BITCHES!
I AGREE, ALL SKEPTIC'S are ALL sissy fairy fuck weak prision bitch girly boy's.
Delete^all real men like us know that.
DeleteMatt Moneymaker is an obnoxious, egotistical, living, walking, parody of his own self. He gives his own theories as if they were scientifically founded fact and everything he runs across is proof of their existence, no matter how absurd. His Snipe hunts are nothing but laughable and if he ever came face to face with an actual Bigfoot he would shit a pile he couldn't get off of.
ReplyDelete~T
^Truer words have never been spoken.
DeleteWell said Sir, Well Said
DeleteThat would be ma'am actually ;O)
Deletebut thank you.....
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^ ^ GIRLY BOY'S
Deletea gibbon? Moneymaker must have been high when he typed that
ReplyDeleteMM is a liar and a hoaxer. A con artist. Its how he makes his living.
ReplyDeleteYou are all mean people. Shame on you. I'm going to my space space........
ReplyDeletethnx r,c for not bieng a girly boy!
DeleteThe north American sasquatch is simply a highly elusive pack of felon negroids. End of search, end of story.
ReplyDeleteSamsung? There would have to have been seriously significant adaptations/evolution of the limb lengths, as siamang display far shorter legs relative to the arm length. As described, aren't they engaging in pretty much standard primate daily habits? I don't quite think that calling to local conspecifics in the morning soundly denotes the basis for direct ancestral relationships...
ReplyDeleteAlthough....I must concede that the mental image this hypothesis evokes is indeed intriguing....just imagine..walking through a forest when all of a sudden a troop of 8-10 foot, 500-1000 pound former siamangs brachiating through the canopy above you! Puts a new element into the conjecture of their cooperative hunting strategies as well. "I was just standing there..minding my own business..grazing a little here and there, when outta nowhere all these huge primates fall from the sky, landing all around me, they start tryin catch me, but somehow I got away...and ya know...they kinda smelled like a Samsung...."(a deer' s eyewitness account/report....)
Ok...damn auto-find-the-wrong-word! The above post...if one replaces the word "Samsung" in all of its appearances in the text with the somewhat rather more on-point term "Siamang" the whole thing seems to make more sense and becomes consistent with the theme of this site...
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