2006-08-09 10:52:40 · 7 answers · asked by missmiamivice 1 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Zoology
The Chupacabra, just like Bigfoot, has not been proven to exist,i.e. live or dead specimen, and until it is, it will remain fiction instead of fact.
However, I personally believe both the Chupacabra and Bigfoot are merely "undiscovered species", yet to be proven to exist.
Many cultures and countries have tales of similar beings, such as The Jersey Devil, Mothmen in the United States, El Chupacabra in Latin America and Popa Bawa in Tanzania.
Another thing to keep in mind is that the Coelacanth was though to have been extinct since the end of the Cretaceous period, until a live specimen was found off the east coast of South Africa, off the Chalumna River in 1938. After that one was found, a larger effort was mounted to find living specimens and they have found several schools of them around the coast of South Africa.
2006-08-09 15:13:37 · answer #1 · answered by bottleblondemama 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Heh... depends on whom you ask, but generally, the scientific community doesn't believe it's a real creature, since there have been no specimens brought in for study, and they have only anecdotal evidence that they exist (if somebody brought in a goat that had been sucked dry, for instance, someone could at least figure out how big a mouth the predator had that killed it) Since all they have to go on is word-of-mouth, it's mostly just legend, right alongside Nessie and Bigfoot.
2006-08-09 10:59:37 · answer #2 · answered by theyuks 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
that really depends on your outlook on folk lore and legends.the scientific community gisregards el chupacabra as a live entity, but i believe that all folklore and legends are based on real objects, beings or occurances, but as the stories are handed down from generation to generation, they becomedistorted truths.
2006-08-09 17:24:11 · answer #3 · answered by retrac_enyaw03 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No. It's portrayed as a six-limbed flying animal. There aren't any six limbed flying animals.
The dead body you saw on the news a couple of years back was a dehydrated stingray.
2006-08-09 11:22:46 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's probably just a legend...but some legends have a basis in fact...so who knows?
By the way - it's Chupacabra, not Cubacabra.
2006-08-09 11:00:01 · answer #5 · answered by ajimmer 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i dont think el chupracabra (goat sucker) is real its all just a figment of peoples imaginations.
my pink chickens on the other hand are quite real they tell me what to do and i do it :)
2006-08-09 11:58:08 · answer #6 · answered by jamz 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i think it is. cause if its not, then whats killing animals in Latin America at midnight? right?
2006-08-09 11:00:22 · answer #7 · answered by Agustin R. 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋