Strange animal

[Selfdfenz]

http://www.thewbalchannel.com/news/3545312/detail.html?z=dp&dpswid=1946268&dppid=68757

I got this off Drudge.
Any guess as to what this animal is? A hyena with mange??

H&H you've been there, done that....is this an African escapee?

TC-
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[Erich]

The hyote?

I don't know, but it's going to be introducing Kerry at the DNC tonight!

 

[DigMe]

Looks like a hyena to me but it's hard to tell with those fuzzy pics.

brad cook

 

[Selfdfenz]

"I don't know, but it's going to be introducing Kerry at the DNC tonight!"

ROFLMAO

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[H&Hhunter]

Looks alot like a Brown Heyna with a skin disorder.. Could be a Coyote pit bull cross with mange????You got me ...But it does have a strong resemblence to Mr's Kerry doesn't it?

 

[pinblaster]

mystery solved

A homeowner in Glyndon trapped a "hyote" on his property yesterday . It turned out to be a red fox with mange and scabies . They are still looking for another one which is larger than the one caught .

 

[Harry Tuttle]

http://www.thegreenhead.com/watercooler/2004/08/hyote-mystery-creature-spotted-in.php

 

[nico]

. . . or even a Chupacabra, a part of Mexican folklore that supposedly kills other animals by sucking the blood out of them. Chupacabra means "the goat sucker" in Spanish.

hahahahaha! let me be the first one to ask. . .


What caliber for a chupacabra??



and are we gonna have a seaon this year?

 

[Heraclitus]

or even a Chupacabra, a part of Mexican folklore

Caribbean. Not Mexican. Although the myth quickly spread throughout Latin America.

As far as the hyote, there are only 7 possibilities as to what it might be:

1. A hybrid (hyena + coyote)
2. A mutant (freak)
3. An atavism (trowback)
4. A previously unknown species
5. A genetic experiment
6. An animal with an exotic disease
7. A werewolf, barghest, nahual, alien, eldritch beast, etc.

Take your pick.

 

[H&Hhunter]

A hybrid (hyena + coyote)

Now that would be special...Considering a Coyote is of the K-9 species and the Heyna is most closley related to the mongooose....

A weasle dog!!!

I'm still saying it's Mrs Kerry after midnight....

 

[sm]

Reminds me of an ex MIL.

However I will conceded to H&H, he is the Pro....

 

[stevelyn]

I was listening to Art Bell and Whitley Streiber on Coast to Coast lastnight. They were discussing what was refered to as the "Elmendorf Beast" a dog like creature that had been killed by a rancher in Texas sometime in July this year. The desription they gave over the air closely matches what this thing looks like. Hairless, canine like, but somehow different with strong muscular haunches and shorter front legs.
Speculation runs from new/unknown species to a mutant or quite possibly a genetic experment that got loose. They suggested someone trap one alive for further study. The story on the one killed was that it raided a chicken coop several times before being killed.

 

[critter]

HILLARY!

 

[Dr.Rob]

You want strange?? Girl who lives next to my office walks up to my Bronco this morning... wants to know if I'm missing an iguana... I go and have a quzzical look, turns out there is a 4 foot MONITOR lizard in her dumpster???

Now I'm happing coexisting with reptiles... but that's just not something you'd expect to FIND in a dumpster in Colorado.

Can you imagine the horrified look & blood curlding scream the average unsuspecting person would let out upon finding a big lizard in your trash at 0-dark thirty? Scaly and thrashing and with a head as big as your fist?

PS turns out the lizard belongs to one of her roomates... how she didn't KNOW she lived with a 4 foot lizard is beyond me. The call to animal control was cancelled, the lizard is back in his cage.

 

[Selfdfenz]

I seem to remember a note someplace to the effect that one type of monitor lizard has been released by owners here in the US to the extent that they now live wild and are reproducing. I think in Florida.

They are non-native and have no place in the wilds of the US IMO.

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[huntsman]

actualy our local RED FOX get hit hard with mange from time to time, I saw one that looked like the pic a few years ago. Pitiful looking thing, and you'd think it would kill-em but by winter the hair has grown back.