I tend to favor Dalton's guess, though my sense is I probably wouldn't need to rule out all possible alternatives to say, "this looks a hell of a lot like bucktail". I have at least dozen different species of hair in my tying desk and I'm pretty sure I could tell the deer/elk apart from the rest with my eyes closed.
As far as guesstimating a mythical creature's hair type: to the best of my knowledge, any hominid or close cousin would not have hair as stiff as deer hair. I've been to the zoo a fair number of times when the chimps and other primates were up against the glass, and their hair doesn't look to anything like deer hair. It's finer and wavier, and -- as Dalton said -- looks to be lots more supple. It also seems like it would be pretty lifeless in the water -- not flare on the hook or move enticingly. I expect bigfoot hair would be pretty useless as a fly tying material, if bigfoot were proven to be a real animal.
As it stands, I expect bigfoot fur has exactly the same properties as kraft fur.
Miles
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