Chupacabras. Are they real?

[Dr.Q]

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Canovanas, Puerto Rico is where the chupacabra originaly showed up extracting blood from animals in captivity. People believed it was a new thing around. What people did not understand is that Puerto Rico being a 100 by 35 mile island in the carribean, does not have the capability of having small animals like those goats, rabbittls or chicken in the wild in bunches or herds.
This will make any hunting type of animal to go after animals in captivity.
What people dont understand either is that certain animals with different metabolism does not have to feed as often as us human do. Aligators for example can go for up to 8 months on 1 meal. Guilla monsters only comes to surface every 7 years to feed.

what people also can realise is that chupacabras in Puerto Rico have seen by one in a million persons. In a place with a 4million population, would mean that only 4 persons have seen one up close. Of those known only one is still alive.

This will be the first forum in the internet to have the real explanation for this. And it goes as thus:

There is a bat, larger in size that can reach about two and a half feet with a wing span of 4 feet. The metabolism of these bats require them only to feed an stimate of 5 to 8 years. In Puerto Rico there is rarelly wild or loose animals except for stray dogs wich is a not favorable for these bats to feed on. This is why in the past decades they have been going for animals in captivity.

[scarygirl67]

I saw this old thread on the Chupacabras and I thought I'd share this link I recently found out about.

http://www.newera.com.na/article.php?articleid=5628

It appears as though there have been suspected attacks of these blood-sucking creatures in Namibia, Africa. In the villages of Onheleiwa, Oidiva, and Oikango, there have been goats slaughtered with their blood drained from them. According to the article which was published July 21,2009, there were over 20 goats killed in Onheleiwa and Oidiva , and an unknown number in Oikango.

The locals are accusing an elderly man and his sister of owning the animals. The tracks that police discovered were much larger than dog's prints, and when the authorities tried to follow the creatures, they said that the "animals" simply vanished.

I am wondering, have they ever been spotted in Africa before? I knew of sightings in South America and North America, but I had never heard of Africa before.

It does seem odd that there doesn't seem to be any other explanation for these attacks.

[Darkangel386]

I'd say unless they have dogs with huge paws that suck blood out of animals,I would say yes.It's very possible that some Chupacabras were taken to Africa from South America.

[scarygirl67]

When I was reading the story in the link, I looked up more about these creatures. Apparently they are not indigent to one area. There have been many occurrences, even here in the US. There was a case in Texas as well.

I keep thinking this has to be some kind of animal..........but it isn't like any animal I've ever heard of. Certainly livestock has been attacked before, but the draining of the blood is just so bizarre.