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Chupacabra. United States

ID #1544449954
Added Mon, 10/12/2018
Author July N.
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Initial data

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Incident date: 
07.2004
Location: 
Сан-Антонио, TX
United States

In July 2004 near San Antonio (Texas, USA) farmer Reggie Lagow killed a hairless, resembling a dog creature, dubbed subsequently Elmendorf being.

Reggie placed the traps the week before, the Statute to collect in the morning, the bloodless corpses of chickens and turkeys. What was the surprise of the farmer, when one morning he found the trap a strange animal. This "something" resembled in appearance a hybrid dog, rat and kangaroo, and the animal's body was not covered with hair.
The farmer immediately assumed it was a Chupacabra - a creature that first saw the unit.

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Hypotheses

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Baldness

Often, because of the nature of the species, age or various diseases, the animals are deprived of wool.

The most common skin disease that leads to this effect is considered to be the Itch mite. From coyotes, for example, the response to the disease can be so strong , what causes hair loss, narrowing of the blood vessels, adding to the overall fatigue exhaustion. Therefore, affected animals often attack livestock because it usually is easy prey.

Investigation

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Caught in a trap the animal Reggie Lagow gave the laboratory of the Texas Parks and Wildlife and fell into the same trap that Talavera: scientists said that it was an ordinary coyote, the patient scabies.

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Resume

The most likely explanation. The version, confirmed by the investigation

Baldness

Often, because of the nature of the species, age or various diseases, the animals are deprived of wool.

The most common skin disease that leads to this effect is considered to be the Itch mite. From coyotes, for example, the response to the disease can be so strong , what causes hair loss, narrowing of the blood vessels, adding to the overall fatigue exhaustion. Therefore, affected animals often attack livestock because it usually is easy prey.

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