Canis lupus hominis

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1. on September 8, 2009 at 1:54 am Anne

   CNN has a bit about a taxidermist in Texas who supposedly has the body of a chupacabra he intends to preserve. The animal was found in a barn by a student of his back in June. The barn was dosed with rodent poison, and the animal either ate the poison or the defunct toxic rodents.
   It looks from the video and still pics like a Xoloitzcuintle down to the fuzz on the top of the head and the skin color. What is most interesting is the apparent dentition. Don’t know if the teeth are faked or not, because I have not seen anything like them. I’d be curious to know what you and others think.

   http://www.cnn.com/2009/US/09/03/animal.mystery.chupacabra/index.html?iref=newssearch#cnnSTCVideo

   
   
   • on September 8, 2009 at 1:59 am retrieverman

     I’ve been on this story all weekend at the Fortean Zoology Blog: http://forteanzoology.blogspot.com/2009/09/texas-blue-dog-project-field-report-5th.html

     http://forteanzoology.blogspot.com/2009/09/texas-blue-dog-project-research-help.html

     I think it’s a coyote that has either got the xolo genes through cross-breeding or has mange. Or coyotes are developing a hairless adaptation to the subtropical environment.

     I do cryptozoology (sometimes), but I don’t always jump off the boat with them!

     
     
   • on September 8, 2009 at 2:03 am retrieverman

     Coyotes have big teeth. Much bigger than you’d expect on a dog. I disagree that the teeth are unlike any coyote. They’ve got big teeth.

     
     
2. on September 8, 2009 at 11:14 am Anne

   Thanks!!! Your pointing out the link between hairlessness and weak dentition was what I meant but didn’t express well. That dentition certainly didn’t look weak to me.
   I understand Texas A & M has taken samples for DNA analysis. Love to know what the result is.
   I live in the same state as Loren Coleman and that shared geography is as close as I have gotten to the ‘science’ of cryptozoology.

   
   

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