http://www.cryptomundo.com/cryptozoo-news/nonlocalwildlife/ for Bigfoot, Lake Monsters, Sea Serpents and More Sun, 19 May 2013 22:03:38 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 http://www.cryptomundo.com/cryptozoo-news/nonlocalwildlife/comment-page-1/#comment-64082 semillama Fri, 18 Jun 2010 19:47:00 +0000 http://www.cryptomundo.com/?p=31209#comment-64082 I’m not quite certain that you can draw a direct line from nightjars such as the Whip-poor-will to the Chupracabra, although it is true that the nightjars are part of the goatsucker family (Caprimulgidae, Latin for goat suckers).

]]> http://www.cryptomundo.com/cryptozoo-news/nonlocalwildlife/comment-page-1/#comment-64079 korollocke Fri, 18 Jun 2010 13:20:17 +0000 http://www.cryptomundo.com/?p=31209#comment-64079 The chupacabra is not semi-mythical, just a case of a description of the whupperwill bird being applied to something fantastical. In Mexico whupperwills are bad luck and are thought to suck the milk from goats hence the term chupacabra(goat sucker). How this evolved into a bloodsucking reptilian monster is something worth investigating. This nugget of info popped up on an old episode of Bonanza of all places.

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