Science Frontiers, No. 129, May-June 2000, p. 2

J. Chilcutt is a highly regarded fingerprint expert for the Conroe, Texas,
Police Department. In his spare time, he collects fingerprints and toe
prints from other primates. Working with zoo officials, who were naturally
skeptical at first, Chilcutt has amassed a collection of about 1,000
nonhuman primate prints. He has discovered that print characteristics
differ markedly from one species to another.

When Chilcutt learned that J. Meldren, a professor of anatomy at Idaho
State University, had accumulated 100 or so casts of Bigfoot prints, he
had to check out their dermal whorls and arches.

Some of Meldren's casts turned out to be obvious fakes upon which human
fingerprints had been impressed. But a few specimens surprised him.

The print ridges on the bottoms of five castings---which were
taken at different times and locations---flowed lengthwise along
the foot, unlike human prints which flow from side to side.

.....

"The skeptic in me had to believe that (all of the prints were
from) the same species of animal," Chilcutt said. "I believe
that this is an animal in the Pacific Northwest that we have
never documented."

(Rice, Harvey; "Is Something Afoot with Bigfoot? Print Expert Thinks So,"
Houston "Chronicle", February 20, 2000. Cr. D. Phelps.)

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