When did that lady find her chupacabra?

Question

I was watching a show I taped and it had a segment on it about that story. I 'Googled' it and found other pictures, including a strange beast that seemed to use the hind legs mostly for running-not at all similiar to the dog-type thing she found. How many types of animals only suck blood?

Answer 1

There have been a lot of people who have found a supposed chupacabras but it turned out to be a mangy dog or something. Possibly one will turn out to be a true unclassified animal, but I think the lady you're referring to just found a weird looking, mangy dog.

There are several animals named above that suck blood. However, sometimes normal animals go "vampire." Sometimes herbivores go carnivore. With this in mind, an anomalous meat- or blood-eating animal could also be a traditionally herbivorous animal.

Here's a cow that randomly started killing and eating chickens: http://www.startribune.com/484/story/1040523.html

There is even a finch that drinks blood! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vampire_finch

(By the way: Even though most people say/spell it incorrectly, the correct name is Chupacabras for both singular and plural. It's a Spanish word.)

Answer 2

The chupcabra is nothing but nonsense. Animals that eat blood include ticks, mosquitoes, leeches, vampire bats (they make and incision with an incisor and lap up the blood, they don't suck it) and ox peckers (in the wild ox peckers eat ticks engorge with blood which is what they're really after). I'm sure there are lots of other parasites that also suck blood.

Answer 3

I know of tick, vamp bat other insect and bugs, female mosquitoes, and a certain bird and moth species.

We really don't know what exist and doesn't exist, so we really can't confirm or deny that the Chupa exists.