Indeed, so many Mexicans have reported seeing the goatsucker that two Mexico City dailies this week published drawings of a winged rodent that they said were based on multiple sightings of the animal.
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Not far away, in Miami's Little Havana district, 66-year-old Cuban-American Julio Ramirez decided to cash in on the " goatsucker " frenzy.
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Anxiety has swept Mexico as newspapers report dozens of sightings and attacks by goatsuckers, which reportedly look like three-foot rats with wings and enormous teeth and suck the blood of livestock and humans.
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So severe has panic become that Mexican officials warned last week that important ecosystems are being threatened as rural farmers set fires in caves to kill off goatsuckers, which they think are related to vampires.
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They are sometimes called "'goatsuckers "', due to the ancient folk tale that they sucked the milk from goats ( the Latin for goatsucker is " Caprimulgus " ).
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They are sometimes called "'goatsuckers "', due to the ancient folk tale that they sucked the milk from goats ( the Latin for goatsucker is " Caprimulgus " ).
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Another name is " goatsucker " ( the Latin for goatsucker is Caprimulgus ), from an archaic, erroneous idea that the birds would fly into barns at night and suck dry the teats of goats.
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Another name is " goatsucker " ( the Latin for goatsucker is Caprimulgus ), from an archaic, erroneous idea that the birds would fly into barns at night and suck dry the teats of goats.
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The Mexico City Times, an English-language daily, reported this week that a nurse from the outskirts of Mexico City was hospitalized with a severed arm and neighbors said she was attacked by a goatsucker.
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"Goatsucker Fever Sweeps Nation, " headlined the Mexico City Times last Thursday, along with an artists'impression of the beast said to have been " based on eyewitness accounts ."
