Knock, knock! There is Bigfoot?
I hid behind trees, while waiting for a response to my "Knocks"In my case I received no answer, no "response knock". I was somewhere in the wilderness of the Skagit Valley in southern British Columbia and pounded with a wooden club against a tree. At the behest of BFRO researchers Darcy Stoffregen, I was able to accompany this trip, I hit a certain rhythm. One, two, ... Pause.But there was no answer.Many Bigfoot researchers have heard but, shortly before or after a viewing or simply when they have wandered through the woods. They call it "wood knocking" and think that it is a kind of communication is the Sasquatch. Some believe it serves to warn other Sasquatch in the area that intruders in the territory, others suspect it could also be a direct warning to the intruder - "Do not come closer." Often they hear the sound not only from one but from several directions in quick succession. When it comes to locate conspecifics? Or is it a sign of dominance, such as the chest beating gorilla?Stan Courtney, Bigfoot researcher from Illinois, who specializes primarily sound recordings, has some good "wood knocks" uploaded to his website:Incorporated in 2009 in the Adirondacks in New York State:
http://www.stancourtney.com/sounds/ovrnght_10-11_clip_knocks.mp3Recorded 2006 in New Jersey:http://www.stancourtney.com/sounds/NewJerseyKnocks.mp3Recorded 2010 in the Blue Mountains in Washington State:http://www.stancourtney.com/sounds/Wood-knock_2010.07.18.mp3The wood often knocking sounds exactly as if a gorilla beats his chest:
It also sounds as if you a wooden club with a hollow log tapping. In short, hollow, but powerful. So ask is because many Bigfoot researchers, as the sound is made. I know from a report , a hunter with a Bigfoot branch in his hand will have seen in the, soon after he heard sound has the typical, but more and observations are clearly not. Also observed in chimpanzees And how about actually in the monkey world? Is that knock on wood, an observed pattern of behavior? I was browsing through my books on primates and have so far met with only a hint. And although the book "The Year of the Gorilla" by George Schaller. The passage refers not to the Bergorillas, which is dedicated to the book, but on chimpanzees. Here are the lines:"When the hoots reached their screaming climax, strange and new sounds reverberated through the forest-rolling, hollow, bum-bum-bum . Later we were to discover that the chimpanzees pound the hollow buttresses of ironwood trees much like an African beats a drum .Schaller was however not clear whether the chimpanzees edit the trees with your hands or with sticks. Nor is it clear why they did that. It happened, however, in combination with other forms of expression such as shouting, and Schaller wrote, that he and his companions had felt threatened.Thus, I interpret it as a kind of deterrence behavior.I am also still come across an interesting video showing a chimpanzee, he worked as a beehive with a stick to get honey.Could this also be the intention of the Sasquatch?(If it pushes somewhere for evidence of wood knocking in chimpanzees and Co., please write a comment or send me an E-mail)Wood knocking itself createsBack to the question of how sound is produced. What's options?1. Wood against wood2. Hand against breast3. Hand against tree4. Hand to HandFinally, I think the most interesting possibility, especially after I Thom Powell's theory is and has even tried. Man folding his hands and hold them directly to his mouth, like a squirrel that just eats a nut. Now open one's mouth (O shape) and beat his hands together. With practice, it sounds very much like when a wooden stick with a hollow trunk would suggest. Imagine now a 2-meter-monkeys with huge hands and great vocal tract, and more practice before - the sound would be a lot louder.What are the arguments for against the wood against wood-thesis? As Powell writes, various factors work together that we can produce this sound. I have also experienced: Darcy Stoffregen brought along your own wooden stick, because so difficult to find a suitable. In most cases, the branches of rotten or for other reasons do not sound right. A Sasquatch would have to most of the time run around with a stick to make noise at any time, if an intruder came into his Territiorium (assuming that would be the intention). But that's too much trouble. The fists can however use it at any time.So it is quite possible that the wood knocking in truth a "fist clapping is.Other causesFinally I would stress that there is no evidence that produced by wood knocking Sasquatch. There are many indications, but there are of course another possible cause: the human being. The temptation is great to respond to a strange noise in the woods with it. If so suggests a Bigfoot researcher in the woods with a stick against a tree, he must expect that other forest-goers who hears it, reaches for a twig, and responds. It is a reflex, a game that is based in our desire for good communication.An unlikely cause, other animals. With a stick to hit a tree that can not an animal, unless it has hands. The woodpecker hammers its beak to trees, which can produce a very loud noise. But it is hardly comparable to wood knocks. It is extremely fast and repetitive. Moreover, they are mainly active on the day, while the wood knocks are often heard in the night.
http://www.sasquat.com/2011/02/klopf-klopf-ist-dort-bigfoot.html
