| | |  Americas & Beyond | August 2008 
Texas Biologist: Cuero Chupacabra is a Pit Bull
 David Biello - Scientific American
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All good cryptid stories come to an end and so it goes with the chupacabra video. Although it is difficult to make a definitive identification from the tape, biologist Scott Henke of Texas A&M University-Kingsville says "It's a dog for sure." (ref: TX Deputies Add to Chupacabra Legend)
Since coyotes run a little more gracefully, it's likely to be a bull mastiff or pit bull, or perhaps just a mutt. "Dogs just roaming and being stray is quite a problem in southern Texas," Henke says. "The probability of it being a mixed breed dog is higher than anything else."
He notes that the original chupacabra findings — headless goats with drained blood—turned out to be the work of a Mexican cult. And the chupacabra's other hallmark — not eating the livestock it kills — is also a feral dog favorite. "Feral dogs are much more of a problem than coyotes for losing livestock like goats," he says. "Especially if the animal is killed and the throat's bit. A coyote will eat the meat too, if they're going to go to the effort to kill it. If they're just torn up, it's most likely a feral dog."
In other words, the chupacabra's killing spree is just a fighting dog running loose and treating goats like a chew toy |
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