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trickster --- a person who cheats others
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where food was plentiful.
Is it possible that creatures like these could have survived for so many years
unknown to humans? Cryptozoologists compare the case of Bigfoot to that of the
coelacanth. The coelacanth is a type of fish that was believed to have gone
extinct over 70,000,000 years ago, but this fish has been discovered to be still
living off the coast of South Africa. Cryptozoologists believe that the animals that
we now call Bigfoot have been able to survive by living in an area that people,
until recently, have seldom gone.
There are, however, some questions that science has been
unable to answer. For example, why have no dead Bigfoot
bodies ever been discovered? And where is the physical proof
of their existence? Bigfoot researchers point out that it is
unusual to find the dead remains of any animal in the forest.
Most of the time, they say, other animals eat the remains soon
after death; this may be the case for Bigfoot, too. Many
skeptics, people who do not believe in Bigfoot, say that the video and
photographs of Bigfoot are really pictures of people wearing an ape costume.
They also believe that the Bigfoot footprints are really the footprints of a bear, or
footprints made by
tricksters trying to fool scientists.
It is possible that we may never know the truth about these animals. If they
have avoided being seen for the last several thousand years, then maybe they will
stay hidden for another several thousand. Or it may be that as we humans go
