It is not a legendary beast, but a beast many people swear to have seen with their own eyes. But most people just glance at it, and no one has ever really caught a living. So it is like a hell monster in a magic movie, or it is legendary into various images like the Loch Ness monster. Some people say it is a "vampire bat", some people say it is a hybrid of a wolf and a dog, some people say it can run and jump like a kangaroo, and some people say it can dive and fly. ...
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Chupacabra
← The body of "Zhuobaikabula" hunted by American peasant women in 2007.
Folk rumors
What kind of person is Zhuo Bai Cabra?
The word chupacabra comes from Spanish. This animal was first discovered in Spain. 1995, a Spanish farmer claimed that a monster attacked 150 domestic animals and drained their blood. Later, in Florida, Mexico, New Mexico and Texas, Chile, Mexico and other places in the United States, people claimed to have seen similar monsters, commonly known as Zhuobai Cabra.
According to witnesses, it sometimes "looks half like a bat and half like a kangaroo"; Sometimes "the height is about 1 m, the spine below the back is soft and flexible, and it can stand up like a human, with slender eyes and sharp teeth"; Sometimes there will be a vertical jumping force of about 3 to 6 meters, which can jump over a wall of 2.5 meters and move quickly. It will jump on the animal's back to suck blood, and there may be a tube on its tongue that can be inserted into the heart of its prey to suck blood "; But sometimes it becomes "short legs, but sharp claws, even wings, and amazing flight speed" ... In all kinds of descriptions, it seems that there are similarities: the way it preys on its prey is to take a small bite on its neck and then suck out its blood.
People keep saying that they saw Zhuobaikabula, but until now, no one has produced any evidence to confirm the identity of this monster. The following are some reports about the attack in Zhuobaikabura.
1, Chile
Reuters once reported that from April to June, 2000, 200 goats, sheep, ducks and rabbits died of bizarre blood loss in northern Chile. These animals all had typical bloodsucking wounds. Espinosa, a Chilean eco-policeman who participated in the investigation, collected hair samples and footprints left at the scene for research, and found that the killer's paw prints were completely inconsistent with those of other animals such as horses, cows, goats, pigs, cats or wild dogs.
In addition, in the city of Maria Elena in northern Chile, about 70 cats (all said to be female cats) were drained of blood and died. Two veterinarians dissected one of the dead cats and proved that the cat was pierced by something similar to a tube, pierced the heart and drained all the blood. One of the veterinarians, Alechener, analyzed some hair samples found between the cat's toes and finally decided that the murderer belonged to an unknown animal species, which was similar to a camel in some respects, but not a camel.
→ In March, 2005, Chupakhabra, a vampire monster, appeared on the farm in orenburg, Russia.
2. Russia
Various reports of Russian media in April 2005 showed that in the spring of this year, strange things happened in many farms in orenburg, Russia, where all kinds of livestock were bled to death. Some herders kept some livestock carcasses as evidence for investigation. The investigation found that a monster attacked domestic animals, but only attacked their neck arteries, drained their blood, but did not eat meat.
A herdsman in orenburg said that he had witnessed the goat being attacked by a monster. This monster looks like a kangaroo, with a hump on its back and developed hind legs. It will jump around in the sheepfold, and it is difficult to catch it. On the fence of his sheepfold, there is still a handful of taupe hair of this monster. Another herder photographed the monster's footprints by the local Sakmara River. The footprints are big. Judging from the depth of the footprints, the monster weighs 30 to 35 kilograms, and there are traces of the tail in the middle of the footprints. The footprint spacing is about 1 m.
3. Mexico
In 2007, mysterious livestock deaths occurred frequently in Coalape Ranch, Madara. The World Wildlife Fund finally invited relevant scholars from colleges and universities to form a five-member investigation team to conduct on-the-spot investigation at the incident site. Professor Chenis of Mexico Wildlife Conservation Center found a pure white monster here. It dragged its long fluffy tail and quietly flew from the air to the sheep to hunt. Professor Chenis failed to catch this fast-moving and flying monster.
But he found that the hunted sheep did die of excessive blood loss, and the autopsy results showed that it also contained aromatic narcotic substances. Through all-weather surveillance video, the professor also found that this monster has long white hair, limbs, big and thin feet, and can stretch and fold freely like a duck web. In the video, I didn't see it open its mouth and show its teeth, but I saw it sticking out a long tongue that could curl up like a pangolin, like two particularly slender and flexible straws.
Professor Chenis concluded that monsters "fly" with their petite figure, thick hair on their tails and flippers as thin as cicadas. It injects "needle tubes" containing narcotic substances into sheep blood vessels, discharges air with one needle tube, and bends and extends in the blood vessels with the other needle tube to suck blood quickly.
In 2009, a family in Mexico also filmed a video claiming that Zhuobai Cabra attacked their farm. In the video, you can clearly see a "Zhuobaikabula" chasing a deer. Many TV stations broadcast this video.
In the spring of 20 12, farmers in Paracualo, Mexico, found that 35 sheep were killed by unknown creatures, with obvious paw prints and tooth prints on their necks. A man said that he saw animals with sharp fangs and wings attacking livestock.
20 1 1 year, a strange animal carcass was found on the street in Douglas county, Minnesota, USA. It's pale and hairless.
4. America
1996165438+1October, a farmer in Texas, USA, caught a chupacabra in the trap of catching hyenas. This strange creature has only two fingers, and its back is covered with prickly skin, which is about 1.5 meters long from nose to tail. It looks like a reptile. The farmer once took this creature to a nearby university for research and made it into a specimen. But in the end, it is impossible to confirm what kind of creature this is.
In July 2007, a peasant woman in Cairo, Texas, killed a monster, cut off its head and refrigerated it, and then gave it to scientists for analysis and research. The farmer said that she and her neighbors found three mysterious animals wandering outside the farm for four consecutive days, and she killed one of them: "This monster belongs to mammals and weighs about 40 pounds (about 18 kg). It has big ears, big sharp teeth, a light gray and bluish body, and almost no hair on its skin. " She guessed that in the past few years, 26 chickens on the farm were brutally killed, probably by this monster. "These chickens were drained of blood and died. Death is terrible. "
On August 8, 2008, a policeman in Dewitt County, Texas, occasionally photographed a strange animal running on the road. This animal looks like the corpse of the monster that the peasant woman hunted earlier. Brandon, the local deputy police chief, said: "I have been patrolling here for so long and have never seen such a thing. It has no hair, a long nose, short front legs and long hind legs, and is about the size of a hyena. "
20 1 1, a strange animal carcass was found on the street in Douglas County, Minnesota, USA. Tribune reported the mysterious corpse: the animal's corpse was pale and hairless, and its neck was more swollen than other parts of the body. People think that it may be an experimental animal in a high-secret experiment, or it may be a mysterious blood-sucking species "Zhuobaikabula" that has long been legendary.
The British "Daily Mail" reported on March 7th at 20 12 that an American skier found a monster body with fangs on the shore of Lake Tahoe in San Diego, California. This "monster" is about 60 centimeters long and looks like a pig. It has a big belly, huge fangs and white hair in its mouth. In addition, its hind legs are longer than its front legs, and its body looks strange.
→20 12 The monster body found on the shore of Lake Tahoe in San Diego, California, USA, resembles the legendary vampire monster.
Official explanation
The mysterious vampire monster is a sick hyena.
Biologists usually use several identification methods to identify the attributes of an animal, among which the best scheme is to compare the test object with the known animals in weight and body shape. If only corpses or hairs are found, biologists will first take photos and videos for close-up comparative analysis; After that, gene analysis can be carried out, which is also considered as the "golden rule". As long as some hairs are used, the DNA properties of animals can be detected. They also have a more professional research strategy, called "fossil burial", which can carry out special treatment on dead and rotting animal carcasses.
Many animal carcasses in the early stage of decay may have hair loss, muscle tissue atrophy, teeth and nails falling off, etc., but their signs are basically obvious at this time. However, in this case, animals may also show some strange external characteristics.
The researchers studied and analyzed the head specimens of "Zhuobaikala" hunted in Texas in 2007. Travis Schell, a veterinarian at city of victoria Main Street Animal Hospital, said: "It may be just a dog with partial genetic variation, or it may be a new breed of hybrid dog." Kevin kiel, an expert from the Southeast Cooperative Wildlife Disease Research Institute of the University of Georgia, USA, also concluded that "it is obviously a coyote" after seeing the photos of the monster's body published in the Star Tribune No.201.
Kiel has studied coyotes and foxes suffering from animal scabies. He said that in humans, this kind of scabies is called scabies: "If dogs like coyotes suffer from this disease, they will cause symptoms such as hair loss and skin atrophy, and then they may be mistaken for some kind of monster by laymen."
So in the end, these two "Zhuobaikabula" were both confirmed as "hyenas with severe scabies".
Barry O 'Connor, an entomologist at the University of Michigan in the United States, said, "I don't think we need further research or other explanations on these eyewitness reports. Because it is a coyote. " O 'Connor is engaged in the research of mange insects which can cause animal mange. He said, "Scabies will parasitize under the skin of the host, secrete eggs and waste, and induce irritating reactions in the immune system. In humans, scabies is not a serious disease, but a little annoying.
However, canines like coyotes suffer from this disease, which will be life-threatening, because they have not yet evolved an effective defense mechanism to resist scabies infection. O 'Connor said that animals with scabies are usually exhausted. At this time, if it is difficult for them to catch wild prey, they may also choose livestock that are easier to kill. He believes that the so-called blood-sucking legend of "Zhuobaikabula" may belong to "misinformation, fiction or exaggeration".
Loren Coleman, curator of the International cryptozoology Museum in Portland, Maine, agrees with O 'Connor. He said that many eyewitness reports about "Zhuobaikabula" can be explained by the hybrid offspring of coyotes, dogs, hyenas or wolves and wild dogs with scabies.
In 20 12, an army captured a huge "bat" in the Amazon jungle of Peru, and its body was almost as big as an adult.
Subsequent research
Vampire creatures have always existed-vampire bats.
Obviously, many people do not fully believe the above "official explanation". There are many rumors about "vampire monsters", just like the Loch Ness monster. Maybe one day they disappear completely, and people can't figure out what species they are and their "ins and outs".
People can only infer their living habits from similar known species. Just as American experts inferred the identity of the "coyote", an army in the Amazon jungle of Peru captured a giant monster earlier. Although some people think it is the legendary Zhuobaikabula because its body is almost as big as an adult, the locals say that someone has witnessed this animal attacking humans through the jungle. However, some people infer that it may be just a bat-"Golden Flying Fox", one of the largest bat species known in the world, with a wingspan of 1.5 to 1.7 meters.
But blood-sucking creatures do exist-mosquitoes, leeches, fleas … even bats are "blood-sucking monsters".
According to Baidu Encyclopedia, among about 1000 bat species, three will suck blood. Among them, white-winged vampire bats and hairy-legged vampire bats love to suck bird blood, while the other vampire bats love to suck mammalian blood and occasionally suck human blood. Vampire bats are mainly distributed in the central and southern United States. Although they are small, with a maximum weight of no more than 30 to 40 grams, their upper canine teeth are very large and have an unusually sharp "blade" shape. Just like the legendary Zhuobaikabula, they have strong hind legs, can run quickly on the ground, even jump short distances, and have strong flying ability, so they are veritable blood-sucking groups. Their physiological system has long been very special, and they can't eat anything except bloodthirsty.
This bat has a long life span, averaging 12 years. Generally speaking, a vampire bat can suck 100 liter of blood in its lifetime. Moreover, each vampire bat can suck more than 50% of its body weight every night. A vampire bat weighing 34 grams can suck blood about 18 grams every night, and each time it sucks blood for more than 10 minutes, up to 40 minutes at the longest. They will cut a few millimeters of skin with their upper incisors and canine teeth and lick blood with their tongues. Because vampire bats have anticoagulant in their saliva, blood can slow down and coagulate. Sometimes, after an animal is bitten, blood can flow out of the wound for up to 8 hours. If bitten many times, animals may indeed die of excessive blood loss.
The function of blood-sucking bat kidney is very interesting. It will urinate quickly after eating, and quickly excrete most of the water in the blood it sucks. So that it can fly back to its habitat as soon as possible after sucking blood. After returning to the habitat, it continues to digest dehydrated blood until it forms a dung block.
The real danger of vampire bats is infectious diseases. For example, it can spread horse trypanosomiasis when it sucks animal blood; Rabies is most likely to spread when people and livestock are bitten.
20 10, 1, vampire bats bite continuously in the Amazon region of Peru. At that time, the Amazon regional health bureau revealed that at least seven children were bitten by vampire bats within a few weeks. This year, rabies spread by vampire bats also broke out in the local Avaqiong tribe in Peru, which eventually killed four children.
Recently, however, researchers have discovered a strange phenomenon: many people in Peru are infected with rabies because of vampire bats, but some people are immune to rabies because of being bitten by bats. However, experts from Wisconsin Medical College pointed out that having antibodies against rabies virus does not mean that you will not get rabies, so be careful.