Chupacabra. Belarus

The Chupacabra was in charge of the Backyard near Brest. What happened on the night of May 1 in the Backyard near Brest does not fit into the usual framework. Other than the visit of the mysterious "Chupacabra", there is simply nothing to explain the night revelry in the barn.

The hostess Nina asks not to specify her address and not to give a photo in order to avoid the pilgrimage of the curious, but she agreed to show the scene of the incident. The yard of the house is well-groomed, there were also animals ... before the arrival of the uninvited guest. 21 rabbits and 3 cats – this is the list of victims of an unidentified beast. It is difficult to judge what kind of creature it is.

– How could it get the rabbits out of the cages on the "third floor"? The height is 2 meters! Nina is surprised. –And leave no trace at all?" To take out a hefty rabbit through a narrow door, but they could not push it out with their hands…

Let's move on. On the next cell, the imprint of not only teeth, but the whole jaw is clearly visible! The tracks are quite deep. Inside the cage, a small hole for baby rabbits turned into a gaping hole. The entire metal mesh is on the cages and is unlikely to be restored.

- It seems that "it" understood that it was necessary to lift the lid– - the hostess can't stand it. - Exactly the way we do it...two dogs in the morning had a guilty look, as if they wanted to say: what could we do?

But the most amazing thing is how the predator gutted two dozen rabbits. There was no fur around, not a drop of blood. The insides are "taken out", and that's all. The same thing happened to three unfortunate cats. All the victims are evenly stacked by the alien in two piles.

We found only two or three tracks. They are larger than a dog's, and they differ in shape.

The owners did not contact either the police or the Ministry of Emergency Situations, they do not want unnecessary emotions and troubles. Only in one surviving cage did the rabbit settle down again. It was given by friends to somehow mitigate the shock.

There are a lot of options for who did it - from a human to a wolverine (a predatory mammal of the marten family). But none of them explains the death of three cats. To catch them simultaneously or singly and "eat" - for this the beast needs to have some superpowers.

Recently, the media have been talking about the visits of the killer animal "Chupacabra". Did she really get to Brest? The peasant neighbors in the Backyard are ready to take a pitchfork and be on duty at night. There are a lot of poultry in the sheds around. But while she is not interested in "Chupacabra"?

Comment by Viktor Demyanchik, Deputy Director for Scientific Work of the Polessky Agrarian and Ecological Institute of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus:

- The phenomenon of "chupacabra" was allowed by the Belarusian ecological folklore a long time ago. And there were reasons for this. We are now continuing to work with European experts to find out the species of a very strange hybrid between a jackal and a feral dog. The named hybrid is distinguished by the aggressiveness and intelligence of the jackal. The animal is strong, large, in strength only slightly inferior to the wolf, but in resourcefulness, adaptability to man, he has no equal. He is able to steal not only a chicken and go unnoticed, but also a sheep and a goat. And there are such facts.

Such a case may be associated with a sharp increase in the number of martens. According to their biology, they must have very extensive areas and then specialize in their native natural food. But when the number of individuals grows, they are forced to switch to other feeds. Currently, martens have rushed to settlements. Even the old-timers won't remember this. We consider this one of the most serious problems. Previously, martens were a profitable commercial type of game, now there is no such thing, animals have become uninteresting to extract, and this contributed to an immoderate increase in their numbers. A marten can easily eat not only a bird, but also a rabbit, a cat. Moreover, some of them began to "specialize" in individual organs of their victims.

Unlike the ferret, which mainly walks on the ground, the marten can run along the top, climb through a chimney, a ventilation hatch, climb through a crack. In the forest marten, with a high density of individuals, the instinct of aggressiveness increases. And they see in the cat not a potential food, but a potential competitor who is on their territory. And strong males tightly control their territory, they try to remove competitors.

And even a small weasel, whose weight ranges from forty grams, can strangle a rabbit. She has a well-developed predatory instinct, she cuts arteries, veins and thus kills.  And the rabbit is such a meek creature that it is afraid even of a rat.

As for the wolverine, it became extinct in Polesie during the First World War. After that, I didn't meet anywhere. And in general, it is an endangered species in Europe.