I hope the CFZ hasn't paid for air fare just yet!!!--Chinese chupacabra mystery solved

An ordinary albino civet cat with a skin disease that has been mistaken for the legendary "chupacabra". (Photo: Global Times)

BEIJING, April 15 -- As reported by the Global
Times on March 29 this mystery beast resembling a chupacabra, upper, is
seen shortly after its capture in a village in Suining, Sichuan
Province.
A chupacabra ("goat-sucker"), is a legendary,
fearsome and possibly mythical beast said to inhabit parts of the
Americas and Puerto Rico, but not China nor anywhere in Asia.
Following the Global Times report, the Daily
Telegraph in England claimed to have interviewed a Chinese hunter in
Sichuan Province who said creature resembled a bear that had been
changed from a human, just as in a Sichuan local legend.
However, the mystery is solved. Kong Huazhen of the
Daying Forestry Department, Sichuan recently announced that the mystery
creature is an albino civet cat with a skin disease and "we have let it
go."

An ordinary albino civet cat. (Photo: Global Times)

(Source: Global Times/chinanews.com)