Chupacabra

Chupacabra

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The Chupacabra (chew-pa-ca-bra) of Mexico, Puerto Rico, and the southern United States is a creature that sucks blood from its victims. This unique animal is most often depicted as an upright, alien-like creature. Which is nothing like the real animal. The chupacabra is a close to fur-less canine that sometimes sits up on its hind legs to help it see further, but when startled by something like a human it springs up to quickly land on its front legs, or possibly to distract the threat from its pups or mate, and then bolts into the bush. The spikes maybe just shadows of the bristles on the shoulders of the males.

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There are two main species of chupacabra. The common species is near fur-less, skinny, and is about the size of a coyote. The other species is more rare and has more fur, is more buff, and is about the size of a grey wolf. Both have four tows on each foot, a long tail, and
         small saber teeth.                  

The rare species of chupacabra is more aggressive then the common one but is also more allusive. This species lives in colder areas like swamps and often spends a lot of time in the water hunting fish and other aquatic life. The only time you would see this species is in a forested area when a breeding pair has pups. 



Body Structure:

Saber teeth:
The saber teeth are the most famous part of the chupacabra's anatomy. But the chupacabra's teeth are not what they use to suck blood. The way the chupacabra gets blood is that the teeth puncture a vane like the jugular and then the chupacabra uses Draculin, an anticoagulant in the animals saliva used to keep the blood from clotting. The preys heart does the rest.

Tail:
The tail (like with any animal with one) is used for balance. But the chupacabra also uses it to help balance when on its hind legs. Much like what the thylacine did. This behavior may be what sparked the chupacabra's other depiction as an alien-like creature on two legs.


Near Fur-less Body (Common Species):
The chupacabra is famous for the nearly fur-less body that it has. This is due to the fact that these chupacabras live in hot environments, But the chupacabra is not completely fur-less. Is has very thin fur much like the fuzz that we have. The only visible fur (from a distance) is the bristles of fur on the shoulders of the males.

Near Fur-less Body (Rare Species):

The Rare species of chupacabra has more fur then the common one so it's not really fur-less. This species of chupacabra lives in colder areas like swamps so they have thicker fur. The females have a blue, brown, black, or grey coat of fur all over their body and the males sport a mane running from the head to the base of the tail, the males also have a lion-like tail.

Musculature Structure (Common Species):
 The musculature structure of the chupacabra is different then other canids. Most of the chupacabra's muscle is on its legs, neck, and head making the animal look skinny and sometimes even enough for the ribs to be visible.

Musculature Structure (Rare Species): 
The rare species has a lot more muscle on its body. Mainly because the chupacabra has to work through sticky mud and swim in water a lot more then the common species. The male chupacabra also likes to joust during mating season so the extra muscle acts like padding so that the animals don't injure each other.

Diet:
The diet of the chupacabra is mostly blood from birds and other animals in its environment. The only time a chupacabra goes after a farmers livestock is when prey is scarce in that area or the chupacabra is old or injured and can't hunt its normal prey. The chupacabra will also occasionally eat grass to help with digestion and will eat whole mice and other small rodents.

Parental Care:

The chupacabra's pups are like any other canines pups. They are born blind, deaf, and with no teeth. Both parents participate in taking care of the pups and normally pair for life. The pups of the common species are born with a full coat of fur to help regulate body temperature. The fur starts to fall out at around 3 months of age. The father is the one that goes to hunt while the mother stays at the den to guard the pups, the father will bring back live prey so the mother can feed so she can produce milk to feed her young. If danger stumbles near the den the father will try to distract the enemy by rearing and then stomping on the ground, once the father gets the enemies attention it runs to try to ether confuse the enemy or get it to chase him to get it away from the den. If the father isn't their then the mother will stand her ground and even fight the enemy to the death. Once the den is discovered the parents will move the pups to a back up den somewhere else in their territory.