The head of a hairless animal found in Cuero.
Posted on 11/03/2007 5:15:49 AM PDT by Dysart
SAN MARCOS -- The results are in: The carcass of a ugly, hairless, big-eared animal found this summer in Cuero is not the mythical bloodsucking El chupacabras. It's just a plain old coyote.
"The DNA sequence is a virtually identical match to DNA from the coyote (Canis latrans)," according to a written statement from Texas State University biologist Mike Forstner.
Phylis Canion and her neighbors found three 40-pound carcasses in July outside her ranch in Cuero, 90 miles southeast of San Antonio. Canion saved the head of the one for DNA testing and then to mount it for posterity, she said.
El chupacabras means "goats sucker" in Spanish. It is said to have originated in Puerto Rico and Mexico. Skin samples are being analyzed to try to determine why the animal lost its hair, Forstner said.
The head of a hairless animal found in Cuero.
That'll be just perfect in the Foyer next to the pics of Grandma and little Timmy.
Yeah, it's a #13. I always super-size it; comes with a liter of Tequila. (It's a real value)
Paging Jeff Foxworthy.
Another darn illegal immigrant!
Whoops! Sorry - I meant "undocumented lightly toasted dog"..
Mange of one variety or another is the usual cause. They all carry mites that can cause mange. Usually their immune systems keep these in check, but if for some reason their immune systems are compromised these mites which lay their eggs in the hair folicles get out of control and they loose all their hair. It's a little different variety of mange than the kind that makes their hair fall out in patches and the itching causes open oozing sores.
"Demodectic Mange" is what it's called.
Derived from the Arabic, meaning "devoted husband."
LOL Most Excellent.
I was half expecting a Helen Thomas thread.
Good lord, what’s with people. Even I can tell that’s just a hairless, ugly as hell canine.
I’d be interested in knowing about them, and why they lost their hair too.
My husband and I saw a “hairless coyote” standing on the side of the road. I noticed it first and told him to look at that poor coyote. I just thought it had mange, or some other type of skin problem that had caused it to lose its hair. And, that may have been so in this instance, although it looked a lot like the picture.
Probably a genetic birth defect, would be my guess. It happens from time to time.
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"Jews have been causing coyotes' hair to fall out for generations!" |
AWWWWWW! Here I thought that we had finally located Hillary’s identical twin!
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