A Tutors Tale: The "Dolphin" In the River

[Cryptosaurian]

Hi guys, just something I just remembered today: 

About 3-4 years ago, I had a tutor who happened to be biologist working up in Northern BC (can't remember/recount exact details this minute). And one of the stories he told was when he was with friends on a camping trip near a fairly large river (again I'll have to find out which river) but it was big enough that it had quite a bit of current in it. Anyway, a friend came up to him and said he thought he saw a thing that looked like a dolphin in the river, porpoising out of the water (not big splashes, just the typical in-and-out small porpoising that we see). When he told me that I thought of these finned honkers:


You know because of the long snout, body shape, etc. 
What do you guys think? 

[Richard]

On the balance of probability, it is an open and shut case ... it was likely a sturgeon. With that said, there are dolphins that go into the Fraser river, not often, but it does happen if they are zealously hunting food.
Richard

[Cryptosaurian]

Very true; John Kirk said something about two young men seeing a dolphin-esque creature swimming in Muskrat Lake yet he posited that it could simply be due to the fact that the more seal-like candidate was likely turned sideways so that one of its pectoral fins was out of the water. Do you know of any unusual instances in BC concerning seeing something in rivers?

[Richard]

I don't know of anything offhand, but there are likely instances of misidentification.

Reminds me of UFO witnesses, as they saw a light in the sky, it HAS to be alien, it couldn't possibly be a standard civilian or military craft, nope - has to be an intergalactic visitor ... I'm not saying that there couldn't be bona fide aliens visiting, only on the balance of probability, like anything else, the mundane solution is just that: the mundane and typical solution...

[Cryptosaurian]

Well, the mundane solution is often the best...Occams Razor. Unfortunately many so-called cryptid "researchers" ignore that principle and focus on the "I see a sasquatch/unknown creature"or "It has to be a SQUATCH!" That's what gets my goat the most.

[island]

The imagination can turn the mundane into a exciting event , a meteor can become a spaceship , a paddle boarder can become a being with Jesus like abilities.

It would be much more productive to head into the forest skeptical that you will find a Sasq you will be less likely to interpret noises as Sasquatch's communications.


being that Sasq is a shy creature it will observe rather then try to communicate imo

[Cryptosaurian]

Quite true island! Unfortunately imagination seems to have overrun the sasquatch field in all the wrong ways
*shakes head*
*sigh*......I can only dream of the day when all the corruption within this field is elimanted and we can all enjoy the stability of scientific/science-based/methodology-based research.

[island]

And now Todd Standings is left looking like a moron, discredited by those who make up stories.

[island]

I wonder if that is your opinion or of your peers ?

its a pretty bold statement especially to be made without proof

All of the "articles:" I have read that discredit todd standings are written by dim witted authors who write in circles with ONLY conjecture. imo


Go back and read what is passing for stories on todd standings , you will find they are written by no talent blow hards.

[island]

I should try to be tactful.

Thanks for not bashing me !

[Cryptosaurian]

Feb 25, 2016 22:04:08 GMT -5 Richard said:

 With that said, there are dolphins that go into the Fraser river, not often, but it does happen if they are zealously hunting food.
Richard

True.....however, I don't think this river was connected to the Fraser. Again, have to look it up. It was pretty up north from the valley here and I don't think dolphins can survive that long in freshwater (slathingyer ones, anyway). I also would think that there'd be more sightings now....
But, that's just me. 

Mother Nature certainly is strange.