Bipedal Ape: Nothing New

The embedded video is a presentation by Susan Savage-Rumbaugh, she has been researching Bonobos for decades. Bonobos are a species of ape long misclassified as chimps. Although similar in size and color, they are different in almost every other way, more intelligent, socially less aggressive, less territorial,and biomechanically built for upright walking.

Always trying to think outside the box, BfRLC believes we could gain a great deal more knowledge about Bigfoot from this modern species than from the long extinct Australopithecus.

Using 3d animation the embedded video compares bipedal locomotion of the Bonobos along side modern humans, chimps and of course Australopithecus. If that doesn't peak your interest the video also shows Bonobos playing Pac-Man on an old-school coin-op arcade console.

BF Researchers Lunch Club Update

Greetings to all you members and fans of the BF Researchers Lunch Club. The founding members of the BFRLC apologize for keeping this post hanging for a couple weeks now. We will be posting all sorts of things in the near future and hope that you all check in with us daily, even hourly, and if you have nothing else to do, maybe every few minutes. In the meantime, take a look back at some of our classic posts. The not so secret handshake, Am I my Brother's Keeper, and others are great reminders of how important this site is to all BF Researchers out there. As for lunch reviews...well, we'll be getting back to that in the very near future too. PB and J for our meetings is only so exciting to report; although Epic Gilgamesh does a darnright impressive job of getting both the PB and J evenly spread. Of course an uproar was heard when he cut the sandwich straight across and not diagonally. I mean really, Epic, would you add ketchup to your mac-n-cheese? Bite into your string cheese rather than peeling it? I think something about this needs to be an amendment to our bylaws (yet to be posted). Okay, anyways, we look forward to still being your number one source for news and entertainment!

Neanderthal Vocal Tracts Reconstructed After 30,000 years

Robert McCarthy of Florida Atlantic University in Boca Raton reconstructed Neanderthal vocal tracts to simulate their voice with a computer synthesizer. McCarthy used the fossil record to help his reconstruction of the Caveman's voice. Simple sounds were made, but McCarthy hopes to create a whole Neanderthal sentence. McCarthy spoke at the annual meeting of the American Association of Physical Anthropologists in Ohio this month.