The creature attacked the compound in Kopeysk, could be a steppe polecat

On the site of the attack on chickens the resident of Kopeysk Vladimir Borunova Chupacabra left a tuft of wool. Journalists handed it to the technician. Experts, examining the light soft undercoat and a hard core dark hair, came to the conclusion that killing chickens could ordinary steppe polecat, which is found in the forest-steppe zone of the Chelyabinsk region.

Such cases were many times, especially in Kopeysk. Ferrets often visited the chicken coops, dealt with chickens either choked or dragged.

— said the site "the First regional" candidate of biological Sciences Zoe tumasheva.

The experts add: the ferret may not have been acting alone. Attack on a farmstead animals could force an attractive forage base and the instinct of hunters.

Translated by «Yandex.Translator»