Chupacabra
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El Chupacabra (or El Chupacabras) is a cryptid said to live in Puerto Rico, Mexico, Chile, Brazil, and the United States. In the US, alleged sightings of the creature have mainly been in the Southwest, but there have also been reports of it in other parts of the country, including Florida, Maine, Michigan, and Oregon.
Its name comes from the Spanish translation of "goat sucker", because of its habit of attacking and drinking the blood of livestock, including goats. The legend was started in 1987 when there was a huge, gruesome massacre of livestock all over. All the animals had two puncture wounds on their neck in which the blood had been drained.
The story of the Chupacabra has even made it into a German English textbook (Green Line 4, published by Ernst Klett Verlag) as an example for the kind of not always reliable and unverified information that may be found on the Internet.[1]
Chupacabra Media
Graphic depiction of chupacabra, as described by Puerto Rican witnesses in 1995
Alleged[according to whom?] chupacabra found on State Road 72 in Florida in 2020
Mange can often greatly alter the expected appearance of an animal. Wild and domestic canines with severe cases of mange have been proposed as explanations for the chupacabra.
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References
- ↑ Baer-Engel, Jennifer. Green line. 4: Schülerbuch] / von Jennifer, Baer-Engel, Louise Carleton-Gertsch [und 9 andere (2020). Stuttgart Leipzig: Ernst Klett Verlag. ISBN 978-3-12-803040-1.