Why do chupacabras eat all my goats?
There have been a lot of reported sightings of chupacabras in Mexico, Puerto Rico and southern US. The name means ‘goat sucker’ (in Spanish, I think). If they are not real, as the other respondents say, then all those people would be lying which seems a bit unlikely. The reports are that they creep up to livestock and suck the blood out of them, leaving two puncture wounds. Also, that they leap from trees, have an upright posture on their back feet and a frightening appearance. The cloest scientific description of this behavour and of their appearance is a type of large vampire bat (and some authorites have suggested that this is what it might be). There are three species of vampire bat known to science and they all live in the tropics of Latin America (ie. near and adjoining the region where chupacabras are being reported). They creep on the ground up to livestock and suck the blood from the animals, without the animals noticing. The chupacabra sounds much larger and with other featur
