I was scrolling around and just plain researching on cryptozoology and came along something called the chupie. I came along this:

The Mystery of the Chupie

It is commonly thought that there is only one arbonychosaur species living in the Caribbean: the island arb. There are however those who disagree. These are the people who have seen the mysterious chupie, the cryptid arbro of the West Indies, named after the Arel cryptid "El chupacabra" which it resembles to a striking degree.
The chupie is usually described as a bipedal creature reminiscent of a large strigosaurid, but with certain distinctive traits: the chupie has long stiff quill-like feathers growing on its head, neck and back, very long, almost birdlike feathers on its arms and long sharp canine-like teeth. It is sometimes described as being grey, sometimes nearly black and sometimes a muted green or ochra, but usually eywitnesses mention the jaguar-like spots on its plumage. It also has large very dark red eyes, described as either round or almond-shaped.

Chupies are said to be vampiric and subsist solely on blood. Alledgedly the chupie hunts small mammals by stalking them from a tree. It jumps or glides down silently on the prey taking it by surprise and immobilizing it with its legs. The chupie then proceeds to kill its prey, not with its claws but with a bite to the neck. The dinosaur then proceeds to suck the animal dry (how exactly has never been satisfactorily explained) and then abandons the bloodless husk. Some have claimed to have found dead animals, larger than the chupie itself, with clear chupie bitemarks on their neck. However, there have never been any reports of chupies attacking humans.

Chupies have never been captured alive nor dead, and the few existing photographs could just as well have been taken of a just about any species of arbro. Some eyewitnesses claim that the chupies they saw escaped by flying or jumping and gliding with their arm-feathers, which they used somewhat like functional wings. This has inspired some speculation that chupie might be some sort of weird enantiornithian instead of an arbonychosaur. One of the wildest theories claims that chupie is actually a long lost relative of Rahonavis. Any such speculation is nevertheless bound to be fruitless until we can conclusively prove the existance of this cryptic creature - if it really exists outside the imagination of a few overimaginative individuals at all.

Heres a picture I found:

well from the picture, it does look to resemble several reports of the chupacabra, i mean the head looks just the same....

although i thought a chupie was just a cute way of saying chupacabra...

Thats what I thought because on past threads, the females who discussed chupacabras called them chupies. But to me, none of the descriptions look to cute!

This photo below resembles (atleast to me) to what a chupie looks like (this photo is a description of a chupacabra).

If Chupacabras do exist, then it is possible that this is a relative, that would make the most sense to me. Or someone just got bored and decided to think this thing up.

I find a lot of these things to be too far fetched to believe in.

Well I don't see why not this "chupie" could not be believable. What cannot be believable is that it just might not be related to the chupacabra (if it does exist).

I don't believe it because some of the pictures are so different from one another...such as...

Chupa 1

and...

Chupa 2

Sorry, I thought you didn't see why it is hard for me to believe in the chupacabra.

Well like I said on my other post, we can't really conclude what a real chupacabra looks like until it is photographed or filmed mutiliating a farm animal and proven to be real.

Wow,this chupie thing is new to me

the chupie dos not look anythng like a chupa to me but more of a bird\lizzerd like apperense

the first one looks live an evil baboon.

I don't see how they could be related.

They have that dead thing in texas that people are saying is either El Chupa or a muntjack, and it looks like none of the above.

And i am going to go google the chupie now. Though from what i've read it seems like El Chupa.

by the way, Canadian Rottweiler, what's your avvie supposed to be?

Fom the descriptions my friend told me about preditors without their mask on, I think CR's avater looks like a preditor without it's mask, I dunno, never seen preditor movies.

The chupie looks mor like a cross between a dino and a pheasent. Don't ask why I think that, cause I don't know.

I saw most of those movies. Predators have mandables.

I see the chupa/pheasant mix. I'm thinking more like feather raptor.

The first one which is obviously fake certainly does look scary, I'll tell you that.



Neither can they. Their just coming to a conclusion. If their is no DNA based on the chupacabra or anything to refer what the real deal chupacabra is, then nothing about it can be said. Suggestions, ideas, opinions - sure, but not facts because we don't know the truth yet. Nor can we say any animal can be related to it because nor do we have the chupies DNA or what it even looks like/is. So their just coming to a conclusion - how they got to that conclusion, your asking the wrong person...

CR's avatar is a member of Slipknot.

A picture i saw on an article on here (i think about El Chupa) looked really cool, like an Alien (as in the movies) with evil red eyes and quills like a porcupine...it was awesome. a drawing, but awesome.

thanks!

Well if I happened to step near a chupie, I would run

Any time

The chupie does have an awesome defense. Its basically the same defense as the porcupines. Talking about porcupines, I was watching Discovery Channel the other day and it was based on defense, the one I landed on was discussing porcupines defense. Did you know that a porcupine can walk right through a pack of lions and not get effected? When I say effected I mean a small tiny injury or a little cut. The pines are so long and sharp, I really never realized how real-deal they were. The lions would try to attack it and throw their paws at it, but with their quick reflexes would they take it back. Such an awesome defense, more like a power!

Yes, they're pretty cool. And acid blood (Alien) is pretty cool, too.

"If it bleeds acid, what's it going to do when it starts to rot?!"

Its going to bleed acid when it starts to rot too, I don't know lol.

Do you think a sheet of metal will be enough for that dead alien I have in my kitchen? I really like those floors...

The Choopie is the official award of the Official UM Awards, coming soon to a theatre near you.

Chupa is overratted. Like you said, MM,we know little if not nothing about the real chupa. I'm not so sure about chupie.

Corey,the lead singer of slipknot

Noo,looks nothing like a predator.This is a predator...

You're very smart

Thanks, I just know my music...awesome band. But I think this is just a tad off topic.

Uh-huh. I don't like slipknot anyway.

If you'd like to flame me, do so in PM. In the meantime, back on topic.

Doesn't it say it or I have powers?

it might be related to raptors some of those dinos had feathers but i dont remember wings on a raptor

Well you got the part with the wings right -
Making a suggestion it could be a raptor is something I'd have to fight. The chupie was said to have something like porcupine quills. Now I have never heard of nor have seen a picture of a raptor with quills or spikes...Agree?

people who have stumbled across raptor bones sometimes said that they saw SPIKE LIKE feathers on its head there not exaciticly quills but hey

No, your right. True - theirs always a possibility.

i won an argument i never win at those ooooo!! what do i win!!??

Trust. =)

thanks

also raptors were said too mostly be related to birds ah-ha!

No problem and I never knew that -

Sorry, i'm stupid

This site is pretty interesting and dicuss' the chupie, at one point:
http://www.bowdoin.edu/~dbensen/Spec/Deino...osauria-SA.html

To me, the 'chupi' looks like an 'extinct' flying reptile with feathers. Arpetopertix(sp?) anyone?

Yeah, it does look like one, but how do we know that this isn't just a pheasent in the darK?

Are you trying to discuss the Archaeopteryx because I dont understand what word Arpetopertix is?

Why would anyone wanna flame you?

Hmm,it could be...

lol, just a warning.

You are nothing of the sort!!

I've been a horror fan since I was 6 or 7 and I was fooled!!

I think the face mask and dreadlocks threw me off!!
Anyway, as far as the Chupie goes, I'm kind of skeptical.
Then again, we've seen stranger looking creatures be proven to exist!!