"Chupacabra" finally pictured in detail

[Lynne]

Here are some google images of coyotes, including side profiles. They have long conical snouts:

http://images.google.com/images?ndsp=18&um=1&hl=en&rlz=1T4DKUS_enUS211US211&q=coyote&start=36&sa=N

 

[MA-Caver]

One of the problems is that folks tend to bring in wild animals from other places (illegally) and use them for road-side displays or whatever for tourists. Sometimes these animals escape, sometimes they do what they're supposed to do... survive, which is by any means necessary, including reproduction. It is quite possible that wild dogs of Africa (which are a totally separate species of canine may have been transported here to the states some time ago (before there was a crack down on this sort of thing), gotten loose and inbred with American coyotes... thus producing the odd look. Inbreeding also causes mutations among same species.
Coyotes were hunted mercilessly and in some places there are still bounties for them... especially in ranching sheep country. It shouldn't be surprising that this one is the result of that inbreeding between siblings because the population isn't genetically diverse enough to maintain a healthy gene pool.

Just an armchair zoologist's theory. :idunno:

 

[Xue Sheng]

Here are some google images of coyotes, including side profiles. They have long conical snouts:

http://images.google.com/images?ndsp=18&um=1&hl=en&rlz=1T4DKUS_enUS211US211&q=coyote&start=36&sa=N

Yup that's a coyote alright

EDIT

Actually it is Wile E. Coyote super genius

 

[MA-Caver]

Yup that's a coyote alright

EDIT

Actually it is Wile E. Coyote super genius

Xue, you really need to be more specific... with the photos... Here are (posed) skeletal remains of the Coyote. And a photo of the coyote in action... :uhyeah:

 

[ArmorOfGod]

....and for my semi-obsevive fascination with el chupacabra: 2 have been killed in TX.

http://www.woai.com/mostpopular/sto...s-killed-in-Texas/YMYc1PyfZ0imSLKAP7IX4w.cspx

http://www.cnn.com/2009/US/09/03/animal.mystery.chupacabra/index.html


There was another vid at cnn.com but I can't find it and it showed a guy moving the dead body of the animal around.

People are still claiming that it is just a weird coyote or a deformed dog, but won't address the fact that there have been several killed in the past 3-4 years. Where were they 20 years ago if they are just deformed animals and why the sudden surge of idential messed up coyotes. Why can't anyone say this may be a new breed of animal?

AoG

 

[Cryozombie]

Probably Coyotes that did too much stray meth along the border.

 

[Bill Mattocks]

http://www.allvoices.com/contributed-news/6331107-mystery-relating-to-el-chupacabra-came-to-an-end

http://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2010/07/14/Expert-Chupacabra-a-coyote-dog-hybrid/UPI-80031279145698/

Apparently, the chupacabra is a dog-coyote hybrid with mange.

 

[Xue Sheng]

But are any of them a Super Genius