John Bindernagel
John Albert Bindernagel | |
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Born | December 22, 1941 Kitchener, Ontario, Canada |
Died | January 17, 2018 British Columbia, Canada | (aged 76)
Nationality | Canadian |
Occupation | Wildlife biologist |
Years active | 1963-2018 |
Known for | Wildlife biology |
Notable work | Research on North American wildlife and Bigfoot |
John Albert Bindernagel (December 22, 1941 – January 17, 2018) was a wildlife
Biography
Bindernagel was born in
He published a book in 1998 entitled North America's Great Ape: The Sasquatch.[8] His second book, The Discovery of the Sasquatch: Reconciling Culture, History and Science in the Discovery Process, was published in 2010.[9]
Bindernagel was a curator with the Bigfoot Field Researchers Organization (BFRO) until his death.[10] Bindernagel died on January 17, 2018, at the age of 76. His cause of death was determined as cancer.[11]
Reception
Bindernagel's claim that the sasquatch is a real wildlife species was not accepted by the scientific community. His book, North America's Great Ape: The Sasquatch was reviewed by James Lazell and Jeannine Caldbeck in the Northwestern Naturalist journal.[12] They took issue with Bindernagel's claim that many of the witness reports of the sasquatch cannot be hoaxes because this would be expensive and require a great amount of effort and time.[12] Lazell and Caldbeck concluded:
We make the point that hoaxing is vastly less expensive in energy, time and effort than actually being a real sasquatch. Any viable population of a huge ape extending, as Bindernagel claims, from the Pacific Northwest to Florida and New England, would necessarily consume such enormous resources as to be a real nuisance, make a major and unmistakable ecological impact, and be a frequent provider of road and hunter kills. Hoaxing cannot be dismissed.[12]
Selected publications
- North America's Great Ape: The Sasquatch (1998, ISBN 0-9682887-0-7)
- The Discovery of the Sasquatch: Reconciling Culture, History and Science in the Discovery Process (2010)
See also
References
- ISBN 1-58573-150-1.
- ISBN 978-0-7653-1217-4.
- ^ a b Bram Eisenthal. "Tracking a tall tale". The Globe and Mail. April 1, 2006. Retrieved on February 20, 2009.
- ^ Mary Van de Kamp Nohl. "Pine Lake's Bigfoot Archived 2010-12-29 at the Wayback Machine". Milwaukee Magazine. May 1, 2003. Retrieved on February 20, 2009.
- ^ "Do Sasquatch really exist? On Vancouver island?" The Mount Washington Marmot. Summer 2002. p. 4. Retrieved on February 20, 2009.
- ^ "Biologist believes he has found sasquatch lurking in Canada". Houston Chronicle. January 23, 1994. Retrieved from ProQuest on February 20, 2009.
- ^ "Fuzzy films on web hurt our cause Archived 2011-10-06 at the Wayback Machine". CanWest News Service. Montreal Gazette. March 24, 2007. Retrieved on February 20, 2009.
- ^ Michael Taylor. "Screams in the night". San Francisco Chronicle. January 24, 1999. Retrieved on February 20, 1999.
- ^ Bindernagel, John (2016). "North America's Great Ape: the Sasquatch". Dr. John Bindernagel Homepage. Archived from the original on March 4, 2016.
- ^ "North America's Great Ape: the Sasquatch". Bigfoot Field Researchers Organization.
- ^ "Renowned B.C.-based Sasquatch researcher dies from cancer". CTV News.
- ^ JSTOR 3536647.
- doi:10.1086/666446.