Ive been trying to find out for awhile now but I cant get an exact descriptions...What is a chupacabra and what are they known to do?

I think its known to like suck the blood out of other creatures or something like that, right? ?_?

Nobody knows. It's all speculation.

An as-yet undiscovered species of animal that attacks livestock and drinks their blood. (with a particular penchent for goats).

Supposed Chupacabra attacks have been reported throughout Latin America, but also turning up in Russia and Texas.

Meow Purr.

Thanks. I knew I was on the right track...but not for suree. I live in North America so we have heard stories of them but I wasnt sure what all of it was about. So I turned to this forum hoping to find some more answers.

Theres the inevitable Wikipedia article on it, with some referrence links.

I suspect that most countries have this "Strange Animal" story.. a sort of Rural Myth. In the UK, people believe that there is a prehistoric monster in a Scotish Lake (Loch Ness), and that there are big cats (pumas, leapards etc) on some of the moors. (there may even be a grain of truth in the latter..)

Meow Purr.

Yeahh my friend Katrina got me into this kind of stuff and she swears that the Chupacabras are real. And that shes seen one and has proof. Which I highly doubt. Hahha.

There's a guy works down our chip shop who claims he's Elvis.

Meow Purr.

they are real.
its a diseased coyote basically. losing fur in some places, having a greyish blue colour, attacking livestock.
hope that helps

http://www.unknowncountry.com/img/news/102004/lufkin2.jpg

thats what alot of people describe

Well, hahha. Thats very interesting. But I guess they were both bron to be liars. Hahha. She said she went to throw the trash out one night at around dead hour which is 3AM...if you didnt know. And her dog was like making a weird sound and so supposedly she walked over and there was something attached to his stomach like it was sucking its blood out.

The dog was found dead in the morning/./

Yeahh thats what Katrina described....

So thats what they are supposed to look like? A coyote?

The ones in Texas where thus described. Other witlesses have described a gray-green bipedal lizard-like creature, about 2-3 foot tall. (e.g. it stands on it's hind legs).

Meow Purr.

Ahhh...Im beginning to understand noww.

this topic has intrigued me for awhile now.

most reports where an animal has died seem to imply dogs. eapecially the chickens. [a quick jerk while gripping the neck, easy kill]. why a dog would kill and not feed im not sure but some just do.

although the lack of blood seems troublesome.

because its not a dog? its a coyote for the most part
pooossibly a wild dog somewhere, i guess. but mainly diseased coyotes

Some even describe it as having wings. I started a religon based on the ERl Chupacabra once - Chupology. Got bored of it though lol.

QUOTE (Crypto_Fanatic @ Mar 22 2008, 12:01 AM)

I live in Mexico and during the hysteria of the chupacabra, it was generally believed that it was an invention to divert public attention from the scandals of the administration of President Carlos Salinas.

I clearly remember that daily there were reports of animals being killed and even people claiming to hve been attacked, but we can also remember the same about the cattle mutiliations of the 80s, right?

There are many people who reported they saw those creatures. Eyeitneses claim that some of them were agressive and tried to
kill home animals (propably they were hungry or crazy!!!!).
Ones I was very interested in it but because of not enought informarion I gave it up.
Anyway it has to be awful creature. Is this posible that they are alliens from space crossed with Earth animals?
Some claim that chupacabra is a military genetic experiment wich had been conducted on Puerto Rico many years ago.


PS
Excuse me for my English Im a learner...
please correct me

Check this thread

Scroll down to ranchero's post and follow a few pages. I am yet to see a better theory for this myth.

Its a goat sucker, it tends to leave only two circular wounds on the neck. A coyote would have shredded the animals up, couldnt be a coyote. I used to hear about it every day in mexican news, they even made movies about it. they said it could turn into a ball and roll around at high speeds. It could be from another planet.

i'd have to say i'm a skeptic of this thing i mean i havent really heard much of it so that might be why all i really know is that it's a creature in mythology in Latin America mainly mexico and that it eats livestock and thats about it...

personally i think whats taking the livestock is a coyotte and the chubracabra thing is just an "old house wives tale" to scare of children from running out into the night

The fact that the Texas animal which was originally claimed to be a chupacabra has turned out to be a cross between a Mexican hairless wolf and a coyote (interesting enough in itself!) does not automatically negate all the other chupa reports which have emanated out of Porto Rico and South America over the past two decades.

It most likely doesn't explain even all the Texas ones.

See OTR's reply below.



Agreed completely. Just because this one case in this one Chupa report turned out to be this odd breed of wolf/coyote, it does not mean that all cases all over the world are. The reports are much too wide spread, and the chances that this odd mix of creature being the culprit at every one of the sightings is slim to none.
Plus, I tend to agree with what Expatriate said. I've noticed that alot of reports of cryptids tends to follow on the heals of political disturbances/war in some countries. Perhaps a very effective way to draw attention away from the domestic problems, as it generally seems to work.