IF SASQUATCH HAVE A LANGUAGE THEN THEY MUST HAVE A SOCIAL ORDER

Communication and social behaviors go hand in hand with one another; this ability to understand the members which form part of the social order in many primate species has been shown to be necessary for survival. In its simplest form the ability to communicate must exist to have some type of order and not a possible chaotic and short existence. This is one of the many adaptations that gave the early ancestors of hominids an even playing field which eventually gave homo-sapiens the ability to develop and become the number one predator on earth. So if Sasquatch is roaming the many secluded forest of the world, waiting to be discovered by science, then the species needed to develop a type of communication and social adaption in order to survive the many different locations they are claimed to populate.

In my quest to find answers to this possibility I looked at the most adaptive species of hominids besides humans in the world, the monkey. There are about 265 species of monkeys in the world and is surprising to think the larger apes would be the ones that would have the closes social behavior to humans, but in reality studies have shown, monkey's have and are developing very human like social behaviors in a surprising way. They are not only interacting socially at certain levels like us but also are developing behaviors which many assumed were only exclusive to humans.  These behaviors which also include communication are tool usage, problem solving and critical thinking at a level which many argued the monkey species could not achieve.

Body language is a vital part of many primate interactions and this type of communication which also include smells, sounds, visual messages, and touching is what keeps in place the social order in many monkey species which are passed down from one generation to another. So if we look at those factors and relate them to Sasquatch them we can presume if the species actually exist in small to large family units, a language of some type must be part of their everyday social interactions. The “Sierra Sounds” are considered by Sasquatch believers as the holy grail of the supposed species language, but like many recordings of the undiscovered hominid  not enough evidence supports their validity. Many make claims they have an actual Sasquatch in audio recordings but to others they are consider unrecognizable babble, misidentification of other animals or hoaxed human recreations.

In primate species a develop sense of smell and the use of odor’s to communicate is one way to interact socially, if we relate this to Sasquatch typical foul smell which many report in their encounters, could the terrible odor in many of these sightings be an indication of a type of warning or nonverbal communication that there is something present that they do not like or want to avoid. It would mean that Sasquatch might use this as a self-defense mechanism or a warning mechanism to other animals, humans or other Sasquatch in the area. Curiosity is also an outcome of social interaction and communication, a newly born learns from those very things early in their development. If we look at many of the First Nation tribes legends of Sasquatch they describe the species had their own language, interacted socially and even trade with humans. Some elders tell stories that it was our development of technology and warring nature that separated us from the Sasquatch species and because of these things they retreated into the deeper parts of the forest and we forgot their ways and language. Is like the First Nation’s elders understood the importance of social interactions and it is the very reason why some hominid species are more advance socially then others.

Now it is important to have an opened mind when it comes to the possibility of a yet to be discovered species has a language, but we must ask ourselves were and when we developed our own ability to speak. Humans have the ability to not only speak and connect socially, but what makes us very unique is our brains are able to record displacement (the ability to talk about things that are not here and now). So communication at a higher form is more than just social interactions and its complexities are rooted in the adaption and evolution of a species. So if Sasquatch has existed prior or paralleled to human development and if they have a language it must be as socially adapted as ours, but its rudimentary origins would have developed from their arboreal environment.

If Sasquatch, based on the legends, was able to communicate with us then they should have the mental capacity to comprehend a symbolic communication system and to use it creatively. Now, some believe Sasquatch is a much older hominid species and their development of communication and social interactions is or could be farther advance then ours. So many reports in recent decades categorize the supposed species as able to communicate telepathically and emphatically and even control dimensional displacement by traveling from one parallel universe to ours. Is this even possible? The First Nation’s tribes already understood and believed in Sasquatch unnatural abilities long before men came to the new world. Incredibly in recent scientific developments scientists are now able to control someone else’s muscle movements just by thinking about it with a type of man made mind control if you want to call it. Could it be that even with our advance technology, we are the ones who have fallen behind in this higher level of communication and unique social behaviors that are being reported the supposed species of Sasquatch possess?

In the end the claims from audio recordings by both professional and novice of Sasquatch by certain groups in the this field of research, for now, can only be placed as part of the body of evidence that may one day bring to life a legend that has lived in the many stories and beliefs of cultures around the world.

Here is a link to the video- Direct Brain-to-Brain Communication in Humans: A Pilot Study

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rNRDc714W5I

Here is a link to the video-BBC‘s Natural World-Clever Monkeys  

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SSVF4CuXYno

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