"Bigfeet" - Many Hominid Sub-species?

Ken Gerhard, Field Researcher (Center for Fortean Zoology)
North American Bigfoot (Sasquatch), US Pacific Northwest (History Channel)

Different sub-species?

Are there different sub-species of Bigfoot [like the Indonesian Orang Pendek at left]? A recent discussion with Arizona cryptozoologist Alex Hearn prompted this query.

I have personally researched hundreds of reports and have observed that there seem to be many variations of these mystery hominids that are reported around North America (in fact, the world).

There are five hair colors that are usually described : brown, black, reddish, blonde, and white or gray. Sometimes the head and body hair is long and shaggy, sometimes uniformly short. Generally, people describe these beings as being massive and muscular, standing 6 to 9 feet tall.

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Of course, there are reports of true giants, but there are also smaller, man-sized, even slender creatures. The face is sometimes portrayed as apelike. But more often it is human-like or somewhere in between. They typically walk upright but sometimes go down on all fours. Are we dealing with regional sub-species?

Is Bigfoot some type of hominid (genus Homo) like us, individuals with distinct characteristics?

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Bigfoot as Simple Human-Ape Hybrid
Human-bipedal-primate hybridization would explain the giant yeti or Abominable Snowmen of Nepal, Bhutan, and Tibet. These yakshis or rakshasas in Buddhist cosmology, such as the famous Yakkha Alavaka, are well known and share many human traits including speech and language.

The only known authentic footage is called the "Snow Walker" video. It was taken by two Himalayan hikers on a 1992 expedition in Nepal. Yetis are part of mountain lore, particularly among the Sherpas.

The West found this out when British expeditions were trying to get to the top of "Mt. Everest" (Nepalese, Sagarmāthā; Tibetan, Jomolungma, "Holy Mother"; Chinese, Zhūmùlǎngmǎ Fēng, "Jomolungma Peak") more than a century ago. British climbers also saw them.

This famous clip depicts an apelike creature walking on two legs struggling through the snow. But yetis are found across the Himalayan range spanning the world's three highest peaks -- Pakistan's K2, Nepal's Everest, and India's Kangchenjunga (Sikkim).

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Home of Yetis and Yakkhas: Kangchenjunga

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Wisdom Quarterly edit of "Yaksha" (en.wikipedia.org)
In Buddhist and older Indian mythology, the yakṣa (Pali, yakkha) has a dual personality. On the one hand, it may refer to an inoffensive nature-fairy, associated with woods and mountains. On the other hand, it may refer to a darker creature, a kind of ogre, malevolent beast, or ghost that haunts the wilderness and waylays and devours travelers, similar to rakṣasas. Yakṣis or yakṣiṇīs (female ogres, possibly related to the word yetis) are regarded as even more vicious than the males, possibly due to their hormonal and instinctive impulses to protect their young. In Buddhist mythology, they are overseen by the spacefaring "Guardian of the Northern Quarter," a beneficent deva. According to the Mahavamsa, Prince Vijaya encountered the royalty of the yakkhas -- red haired giants in Sri Lanka akin to Steve Quayle's "giant" (nephilim) captured recently in Afghanistan's mountains, which are also part of the Himalayan range.