Chupacabras Drawing From Facebook

I came upon this drawing of a Chupacabras creature on a Facebook group and I immediately recognised it as one of the better attempts to convey the type. Here is my comment I made at that time:

Dale Drinnon BTW, I really like this chupacabras you drew: it is very likely what one of the living animals the reports are describing seriously looks like, without the sensationalistic exaggerations that usually go with reports of the type. Mind if I post it on my blog and did you want to make a statement to go with that?

Reply from Andy Finkle:

Please share away Dale. Thanks for asking! Just put the name Andy Finkle there somewhere in your blog. I do not have a statement about it, it isn't based on a[ny individual] sighting or anything. I just wanted to make it reptilian with hind legs that are more mammalian in structure. Nothing too absurd (not that I do not enjoy absurd too). Thanks.

First thing I noticed that its posture had its legs stretched out long, body arched like a cat, and its body puffed up. Chameleons and some other lizards do that as a defensive bluffing posture

The elbows bent and the tail curled around was like this Basilisk lizard. Like the Basilisk lizard, the Chupacabras sees to have at least one flap (and probably two) at the back of its head. The could be a "Fin" like the Basilisk has only more jagged, but actually it is usually described as a row of spines and hence is more like the usual kind of iguana in that. The spines are likely longer in the males.The Basilisk lizard also runs on its hind legs the way a Chupacabras does. The Chupacabras is very much larger than the basilisk, with the body the size say 1 foot to 18" at the shoulders on all-fours, 3 feet tall up and running and the whole length 6 to 8 feet long, and the really big ones twice that size.That is going strictly by the descriptions and is the approximate size range as Komodo dragon

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