what are the odds that there is another large primate out there that have eluded us for so long? what are your thoughts?
Unless he's the last of his species and when he dies they will become extinct, it's unlikely that there's
one of anything out there. There has to be a viable breeding community. So the question becomes: can a breeding population of an unknown species exist?
Stated that way, of course the answer is yes. We discover new species of animals rather often. But not large animals. Rodents, pigeons, lizards, frogs, and hundreds of new insects. Even the occasional primate, but nothing much larger than a beaver.
If these hypothetical primates are as big as the footprints indicate, how can they have eluded our scrutiny for so long? Sure,
people elude us; they know how we think because they think like we do. They're still finding Japanese soldiers who have been hiding on remote islands since the war ended. But not a whole company of them!
Now the ocean is different. There are lots of deep places we haven't seen yet, and it's quite possible that we'll discover some more really big sea creatures.
But not on land.
If he is truly the single sad survivor of a plague that killed off his species, then maybe he's out there. But that's it.
