Bigfoot on History Channel's Monsterquest

So I watched this episode of Monsterquest with great interest. After all, I have a novel coming out soon about Bigfoot. But my Bigfoot has very little in common with what they talk about in this show. They analyze the famous Patterson footage, and come up with no conclusions of course.

To explain why my Bigfoot departs from the popular conception would spoil the fun. So let's compare:

1) Huge hairy beast? Yes, but . . . beast has connotations that don't apply.
2) Big feet? yes
3) Ape-like? No!

My Bigfoot is no ape. Hmm. What might it be?