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Chupacabras has best described as having a kangaroo like body, with the ability to leap rapidly away in an almost supernatural fashion, kills animals, and are believed to have an association with cave systems (limestone caves in Puerto Rico) and UFO sightings. They may not live in the caves but originate from underground and access the surface. The caves may be passages from non-human and/or joint military and ET bases. God only knows of course.

I can’t remember reading about chupas make a screaming noise, but it wouldn’t suprise me.

I met an eyewitness of a chupa in Puerto Rico years ago when I visited. The chupa which was in the process of consuming one of his dogs when he saw it. He had grabbed a gun after he heard lots of barking, but when he came out and saw it, he was unable to move his body, as if he was telepathically paralysed, the creature lept out of the backyard in a single bound. He described it looking to what the images are below.

http://www.ghoststudy.com/new6/para_files/chupacabra02.jpg

http://www.paranormal-fr.net/dossiers/images/chupacabra-2.png

http://en.calameo.com/read/00005951030da4dc833f4

Good guess, though I hate to inform you that your feeling is wrong so far as me “making up words”. Years ago, I came across the term “saltatation” with regard to how prosimians like lemurs move about by “hopping”. You may be correct, however, in noting that I used the atypical spelling of the word, as I more often see it spelled “saltation”. Indeed, I have seen both, but if one looks up “saltation”, one finds that its literal, conventional meaning has to do with “a sudden change from one generation to the next, that is large, or very large, in comparison with the usual variation of an organism.” You’ll find the meaning I’m referencing (with what I call the “typical” spelling) here:

http://www.thefreedictionary.com/saltation

This describes an alternative to a gait which alternates between legs, called hopping or “saltation, where all legs move together.” I used the latter so as not to confuse the two.

I assume that there is a possibility that the spelling I used may very well be a misspelling, however before going to print I checked the web, and found it used here also:

http://www.cryptozoology.com/forum/topic_view_thread.php?tid=22&pid=180987

In academic use, Saltatation is very much a word… the problem seems to be the fact that it is used interchangeably to describe different things. To assume, or to assert, that I “created it” is ridiculous… but thank you for taking time to comment on this article. That, more than anything, I truly appreciate!

-MAH