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News Briefs 24-02-2014

By Grail-seekeron

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Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.

G.K. Chesterton

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  1. 6 and three quarters feet under
    Sinking coffins is actually why places like New Orleans now keep their dead above ground in mosileum style graves. It’s a problem if you live near wetlands and boggy areas, which is why there are no grave yards where I work because we would see coffins floating in the bay.

  2. Goat-suckers
    The video is clearly of a mangy coyote. This is really a perfect example of a mange ridden coyote, as you can still see some of the white hairs around his mouth and patches of hair which are falling off. In fact, what the so called “wildlife expert” (who I think was just happy to be on TV) said is part true and in fact the reason why mange is getting worse and worse for coyotes and wolves: feral dogs, and no not dingos. That looks nothing like a dingo. I have coyotes living outside my door, I here them howl and yip and have seen them, luckily without mange. This is a coyote and I encourage anyone who sees this tape to do a comparison.

    Coyote, healthy (take notice the color pattern is similar to the one in the video):
    http://www.gpwmi.us/graphics/coyote2.jpg

    Manged coyote:
    http://alt.coxnewsweb.com/shared-blogs/austin/williamson/upload/2012/05/creatures_in_cedar_park_have_s/mange7.jpg

    Look familiar?

    Yes, animals look weird bald, but that doesn’t mean they are something supernatural. However, keep in mind that mange causes many issues besides hair loss and killing easy prey like livestock is all they can do to keep alive. Mangy females spread the mites to their young, so they become bald. If malnutrition occurs, sometimes these animals can loose teeth, so it hurts to tear and chew like a normal canine, so once they nip the jugular on the neck, the blood can spill out completely in under 5 minutes and it drinks it first since it’s the easiest to get. This is what I assume these animals are doing. Texas…STOP WITH THE CHUPACABRA CRAP AND SOLVE THE PROBLEM! Mange can spread to your dogs and cats too if they come in contact with these coyotes, it’s and awful awful awful illness:
    http://pulpbits.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/Mange-In-Dogs.jpg

    1. Not a mangy coyote. That is
      Not a mangy coyote. That is what I thought at first until I saw it in detail on The History Channel. It is morphologically very unique with distinctive pads on the buttocks, and the genetic analysis could not place it squarely anywhere among the known canids. Watch The History Channel on this. They have been running the show once a week.

      Here are some video close-ups of the taxidermied animal. The skin by the way showed no signs of mange infection. I am not saying this is a “chupucabra” but it is a previously unknown canid.

      1. original creature
        The one you’re speaking of is not the one I’m talking about. I’m speaking of specifically the one shown alive in the video in the article, NOT all of these creatures. As for the one you are speaking about, I believe its some hybrid between domestic dog and coyote or whatever. As for the pads on the bum, I thought that was odd too, but after researching, I believe they are similar to calluses, build ups of flesh because the animal has little fat so they are there to protect it’s bottom. They are from sitting directly on the raw skin for a long while. These would take a while to develop and mange doesn’t take that long to kill especially if it hinders the animal’s ability to hunt. I do believe a strange candid is living in Texas, but the one specifically in the article above looks like a mangy coyote. That doesn’t mean ALL of these occurrences are coyotes.

        I personally don’t know how these naked creatures are going to survive in the long run. Fur acts as air conditioning as well for warmth and TX is not always a hot place. This year has proven it can get snow just like the Northeast. In the long run, I’m not sure they can survive. I think that’s one of the main reasons scientists don’t bother to classify this creature. Pitty really. Exposed skin, as anyone who has ever had a Chinese crested dog will tell you, is dangerous and dogs can get sunburn.

        1. I hunt quail with my dad in
          I hunt quail with my dad in south Texas – I know what it’s like down there, and I helped him raise hundreds of hunting dogs and know what kennel callouses look like. Mange outbreaks leave many a coyote and fox unfurred in winter sometimes and a certain percentage make it through. The callouses with their stacked folds do not look like kennel callouses to me. They are too symmetrical whereas a kennel callous tend to be largest on whichever hip the animal favors and sleeps on.
          One thing that really stands out about this weird creature is how fast it can run. The police who gave chase to it cross country thought it was almost supernaturally fast. This could be some hybrid, but it is curious that such a freakish hybrid would strain out and speciate like this, and according to witnesses there is a local population running about.
          This creature is going to give the geneticists something very interesting to play with. Meanwhile it does give some credence to the chupucabra stories of the lore though I doubt this creature can dismantle sheep as spectacularly as the monsterish tales said. On the other hand, the apparent tendency of the creature to drink blood and leave most of the carcass uneaten is pure chupa and aligns with the tales. This the best crypto story of our age. The genetic discoveries alone will be rich and probably surprising.

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