I also find quite hilarious that it's illegal to hunt them in North America.
Although I have never heard of that law it doesn't suprise me. But, with the kind of folks that live out here-if someone saw one, I'm sure it would be shot and
quote possibly stuffed buy the proud hunter. But, I really don't think they are here. I firmly believe that if they really existed there would be more than just hazy videos and footprints-there would be something more tangable (like a body). From the so called "evidence" it appears (if it does in fact exist) to be some kind of a primate and there are no large primates in North America. We do have a lot of bears (specifcally black bears) but again from the "evidence" a bear of some kind doesn't seem likely.