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Les Stroud did something very interesting on last night's show. He set out to see how easy/difficult it is to hoax footrints that can fool the experts.
He went to one of the top FX houses in Hollywood and had a pair of prosthetic feet professionally sculpted and cast in flexible materials, complete with simulated dermal ridges and special stilt-type rigging to enable him to have a greater than human stride.
He went out and made some very convincing tracks, then photographed and cast them. He then took them to Dr. Jeff Meldrum in Idaho under the pretext that they were genuine.
Despite being very convincing and costing $10,000, Meldrum was able to spot them as fakes.
So, what it boils down to is it's very, very difficult to fool an expert primatologist, and ultimately, of the thousands of footprints that have been cast over decades, if even only ONE of them was genuine, that means the creature that made it exists.
My own ongoing research continues...
He went to one of the top FX houses in Hollywood and had a pair of prosthetic feet professionally sculpted and cast in flexible materials, complete with simulated dermal ridges and special stilt-type rigging to enable him to have a greater than human stride.
He went out and made some very convincing tracks, then photographed and cast them. He then took them to Dr. Jeff Meldrum in Idaho under the pretext that they were genuine.
Despite being very convincing and costing $10,000, Meldrum was able to spot them as fakes.
So, what it boils down to is it's very, very difficult to fool an expert primatologist, and ultimately, of the thousands of footprints that have been cast over decades, if even only ONE of them was genuine, that means the creature that made it exists.
My own ongoing research continues...
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