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In the long and distant past of three months ago, a friend and I were having a bigfoot themed discussion.

As I am adamant that no ape would have survived through Pleistocene North America, I present my beary hairy bigfoot: a surviving member of the subfamily Tremarctinae, making it the only other living relative of the spectacled bear.
These are actually smaller offshoots of the family, being cousins to the giant short faced bears, though they do look superficially similar to members of the genus Arctodus. Much like their bigger extinct cousins, these sassy bears are opportunistic omnivores who consume a roughly 60/40 plant matter to meat diet. Their ancestors were Arctotherium bears who migrated northward and eventually adapted to dense forests of the Pacific Northwest, their deep snouts giving the illusion of an almost human face from a distance. They also have rather flexible front limbs compared to other bears, which allow them to shift things out of the way in their densely forested homelands. They also have a tendency towards being more bipedal than the average bear, though it really is only a bit more than the average bear, but it went a long way towards explaining sightings of three to four meter tall humanoids.
This bearfoot is named Chiqi. They’re a sassy ton of rug, who once got into a fight with a Thunderbird (Do. Not. Mess. With. Them.) and miraculously survived.

Description

In the long and distant past of three months ago, a friend and I were having a bigfoot themed discussion.

As I am adamant that no ape would have survived through Pleistocene North America, I present my beary hairy bigfoot: a surviving member of the subfamily Tremarctinae, making it the only other living relative of the spectacled bear.
These are actually smaller offshoots of the family, being cousins to the giant short faced bears, though they do look superficially similar to members of the genus Arctodus. Much like their bigger extinct cousins, these sassy bears are opportunistic omnivores who consume a roughly 60/40 plant matter to meat diet. Their ancestors were Arctotherium bears who migrated northward and eventually adapted to dense forests of the Pacific Northwest, their deep snouts giving the illusion of an almost human face from a distance. They also have rather flexible front limbs compared to other bears, which allow them to shift things out of the way in their densely forested homelands. They also have a tendency towards being more bipedal than the average bear, though it really is only a bit more than the average bear, but it went a long way towards explaining sightings of three to four meter tall humanoids.
This bearfoot is named Chiqi. They’re a sassy ton of rug, who once got into a fight with a Thunderbird (Do. Not. Mess. With. Them.) and miraculously survived.