No , it has n’t .
A Texas coupleclaims to have captured a support chupacabrain their backyard . severely . It is n’t even April Fools Day anymore . Here ’s the report that aired on the local news epithelial duct , KAVU - TV :
For those of you who do n’t cognize what a chupacabra is , here ’s a small cryptozoology chronicle . Sightings of the rumored chupacabra began nearly 20 years ago in 1995 . A woman in Puerto Rico claimed that a 5 - foundation - tall hairless animate being that looks like a combination of a reptilian / dog / alien drink down livestock by bite the neck opening and suck the rake out . In fact , the animate being ’s name really translate to its allege dieting . Chupar is Spanish for “ to suck ” while cabra intend “ Capricorn the Goat . ” And so , the first fib that emerge about the so - phone “ goat chump ” let in a tool that is seldom seen , but leave behind a trail of bushed farm animal in its Wake Island .
The chupacabra , as it was first described , looked like this :
Chupacabra drawing . Credit : LeCire , WikiMedia Commons
A few years after the first “ eyewitness ” report , the chupacabra ’s visual aspect began to evolve . It shrunk from a tall , spiked “ wight From the Black Lagoon ” type into a hairless canine tooth - similar species . witness begin to take down losses in their livestock . The beast were n’t completely eaten , but did suffer bite marks to the neck , feed in fuel to the hypothesis that the chupacabra suck in blood .
Before the most recent case in Texas , there had n’t been any resilient capture of the animal . Deceased specimen that were imagine to be evidence of the chupacabra really turned out to be coyotes or wolves with mange , resulting in a loss of their hair . Mange can also be extremely antsy , resulting in animal who would rather scratch than examine to find intellectual nourishment . This , combined with a decline in overall wellness , could explain why these hairless animals target livestock : it ’s just easy . Also , their poor health might prevent them from successfully take down and eating the brute . Thus , all that is give on the livestock would be bite marking on the neck opening . Many animals assail the neck first , because that is the most vulnerable .
Though the animal in the picture was described as being a canine , that ’s plausibly not the casing . The wildlife expert who commented had only envision the beast through video and had not observed it in person for himself . The feet and eating habits very closely resemble phallus of the raccoon family , but it could very well be a loanblend of two coinage as well . Most animals suspect to be chupacabras have been hybrids of coyote and wolves .
Those who believe it is a chupacabra claim that the animal looks a scrap too docile to have mange , but it could also have lose its hair due to a genetical mutation . deoxyribonucleic acid testing will need to be deport so as to be sure of the creature ’s identity and any unwellness it may have . But get ’s get veridical here for a second — this is not a infernal chupacabra .
The couple claims that the beast was spotted sitting up in a Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree , eat corn . Does that really sound like the demeanour of a descent - sucking monster ? I know that the neighbor said in the interview that he has never seen a raccoon like that or heard it make that phone , but there ’s a inferno of a deviation between someone who hound them on occasion and someone who actually keeps them live and studies them .
Until the animate being is identified , it will remain at the couple ’s place where it is feed corn and cat food . There has n’t been any information released on if it has been moved to a large John Cage or if it is still throttle to the small gob that it was originally caught in on Sunday night .
