Chupacabra (also chupacabras /t=CA=83upa'kab=C9=BEas/, from Spanish chupar:=
to
suck, cabra: goat; goats sucker) is a cryptid said to inhabit parts of
the Americas.
It is associated particularly with Puerto Rico (where it was first
reported), Mexico, and the United States, especially in the latter's
Latin American communities. The name translates literally from the
Spanish as "goat sucker."
It comes from the creature's reported habit of attacking and drinking
the blood of livestock, especially goats. Physical descriptions of the
creature vary.
Eyewitness sightings have been claimed as early as 1990 in Puerto
Rico, and have since been reported as far north as Maine, and as far
south as Chile. Mainstream scientists and experts generally
hypothesize that the chupacabra is a legendary creature, or a type of
urban legend. It is supposedly a heavy creature, the size of a small
bear, with a row of spines reaching from the neck to the base of the
tail.
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