Primitive Archer
Main Discussion Area => Around the Campfire => Topic started by: Parnell on April 04, 2014, 01:20:16 pm
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Ok, that is not a coyote, raccoon, dog, or any other damn thing with mange. What the #$@% is that?
Awesome!
Am I missing something here? How much dope has that wildlife biologist smoked?
I wonder how it tastes? Ha! ;D
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/04/03/living-chupacabra-capture_n_5085942.html
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Sits on its back legs like a kangaroo and eats with its paws...No Coon, Fox, or Coyote I have ever seen!!!
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No doubt about the canine thing, ain't never seen a dog w/ hands for paws like that. I bet it tastes like it looks, don't think I'd eat it. Hope they keep it around, maybe it's mamma will come looking for it. >:D They need to stick it in a pen w/ a goat and see what happens. >:D
Thanks for sharing Parnell, dp
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It certainly looks K9 but people are wanting to say it's a coyote with mange. Sorry, that isn't a coyote with mange. No flipping chance.
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It's a raccoon with mange. Are wildlife experts really that uneducated? Anyone who has ever had a raccoon as a pet has seen them eat like that.
Geez.
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It's a raccoon with mange. Are wildlife experts really that uneducated? Anyone who has ever had a raccoon as a pet has seen them eat like that.
Geez.
A raccoon? Only one way to find out, get the DNA.
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Mangy coon. I heard on another site it might be a mangy Coatimundi.
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Here's a video of a raccoon eating cat food with its "hands" and then running off on its back legs while carrying food with its paws.
You don't need to see DNA. It's blatantly obvious.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FTcjzaqL0pE
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I have coon hunted most of my life. 100% mangy coon.
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Most likely. Crazy looking!
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Any animal without hair will look unexpectedly different but that doesn't mean we have to lose our common sense when trying to identify them.
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Any animal without hair will look unexpectedly different but that doesn't mean we have to lose our common sense when trying to identify them.
PatM, I'm teaching mutations in biology currently and I think this is a perfect example of the topic. Of course, I'm trying to get a rise out of people.
I'm agreeing that its a raccoon. But I'm skeptical it has mange. Symptoms aren't there. Could it be a raccoon that has received a mutated gene for being "hairless".
DNA testing!
Sorry, I can't help myself, I love stuff like this! ;) ;D
P.s. Would the state of TX have a responsibility to ID this animal even though its been trapped on private property? That is what I'm wondering...
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At 45 seconds it sure looks like a coon. It's in a coon trap. Got front feet like a coon. Were did the wildlife biologist come up w/ canine? That's funny.
PatM, That was a funny video.
dp
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It's a raccoon with mange. Are wildlife experts really that uneducated? Anyone who has ever had a raccoon as a pet has seen them eat like that.
Geez.
A raccoon? Only one way to find out, get the DNA.
Well I have to respectfully disagree...
There is another way to tell if it's a raccoon other than DNA...
Barbeque it... anyone that's ever eaten BBQed Coon could tell you right off...
In Three Bites or Less...
Name That Coon!
;D
-gus
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http://www.nbcnews.com/science/weird-science/another-chupacabra-monster-tale-bites-dust-texas-n72041
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The reason I said mange was because it seems pretty common for animals there to be afflicted to the point of hairlessness.
There is always the potential for animals to have the hairless gene but it would be rather uncommon for them to survive to adulthood.
I have seen a Red Squirrel with a total lack of hair and its mother had pushed it out of the nest. Nature is not big on sudden anomalies that may have a glaring disadvantage.
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As for the guy who said he never heard a coon make that kind of noise, must not have ever gotten close to a cornered, or caged coon before. I catch them all the time, and they can make some pretty nasty growling noises, just like that one. It sure looks like a hairless coon to me. Whatever the reason for it not having any hair.
Wayne
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nose alone has coon written all over it.
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I've trapped a lot of coons in my life, but not as messed up as that one.
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And then there was that North Dakota coyote that got caught in a leg hold trap. Gnawed three legs off and was still trapped....sigh!
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The bigger questions remain unanswered. Could a bow be backed with its skin? Could a quiver be made? Inquiring minds want to know.
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Looks pretty tough. Better use a point made from untreated stone.
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As for the guy who said he never heard a coon make that kind of noise, must not have ever gotten close to a cornered, or caged coon before. I catch them all the time, and they can make some pretty nasty growling noises, just like that one. It sure looks like a hairless coon to me. Whatever the reason for it not having any hair.
Wayne
He said he was a coon hunter........................... Most animals make the same noise after you shoot them . ;)
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I'm not scared of much mystical creatures included, but the man who is big enuff ole boy to shave an adult racoon this backwoods hillbilly is steering clear of! >:D
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HA! I know your right !
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I can't see the video right now cause my computer is too slow. I remember though, when I was younger I was in a group home. Me and this kid Doug best (we were both like 14 or something, he may have been 13), well, we were both absolute idiots, so we decided to run away in the middle of the day, (which was kind of a right of passage at the group home I was at anyway). We just took off right into the woods, lol. We ran around for a while, and ended up heading down past this road into a corn field, and ended up sleeping in this corn field, back to back (it was cold). In the middle of the night, or it might of been early morning, I woke up with this weird dog sniffing me, it FREAKED ME OUT! ;D Doug never woke up, but it scared the crap out of me. Well we ended up sneaking back in the morning to nab some supplies and got caught and went back to jail, but I never thought about the dog, till nowadays when I hear stories about weird dog animals. I don't remember it having no hair either, but I didn't think nothing of it but being a weird dog. That group home was out in a place called riley, and apparently they got lots of stories about similar things. I know this guys grandma that swears when she was 20 or so something like that chased her all over the place or something, and his whole family swears it happened, lol. If there were chubacabras though, I'm sure my wife would of found, named, and taken in 5 of em by now already...
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I can't see the video right now cause my computer is too slow. I remember though, when I was younger I was in a group home. Me and this kid Doug best (we were both like 14 or something, he may have been 13), well, we were both absolute idiots, so we decided to run away in the middle of the day, (which was kind of a right of passage at the group home I was at anyway). We just took off right into the woods, lol. We ran around for a while, and ended up heading down past this road into a corn field, and ended up sleeping in this corn field, back to back (it was cold). In the middle of the night, or it might of been early morning, I woke up with this weird dog sniffing me, it FREAKED ME OUT! ;D Doug never woke up, but it scared the crap out of me. Well we ended up sneaking back in the morning to nab some supplies and got caught and went back to jail, but I never thought about the dog, till nowadays when I hear stories about weird dog animals. I don't remember it having no hair either, but I didn't think nothing of it but being a weird dog. That group home was out in a place called riley, and apparently they got lots of stories about similar things. I know this guys grandma that swears when she was 20 or so something like that chased her all over the place or something, and his whole family swears it happened, lol. If there were chubacabras though, I'm sure my wife would of found, named, and taken in 5 of em by now already...
You didn't by any chance hang around with Eddie (Mullet) when you were a kid did you? ::)
Wayne