Sorry
for the monster occupy the almost entire image, but it's even
enormous! xP
What's
it?
A reptilian beast that
has a pouch on its chin to suck its victim
Where
it can be found?
West's
newly
planted groves of
eucalypts
Its
alimentation:
Goats... And also
bitches and sons of a bitch! xxD
There
was a day when an important company in the forestry sector waved with
over € 50000000 to invest in the national economy. Sometime after,
the Government revoked the previous legislation that limiting the
eucalypts plantations (from date of 1st half of the 20th century):
before, new forest plantations that had completed continuous areas
with more than 50 ha were subject to prior authorization from the
forest authority, and below it, were subject to approval of
municipalities, under a decree-law on amendments in the relief and
vegetal coverage, and that these plantations could not be at x
m of infrastructures and farmlands, depending on the type of
infrastructure and of practiced
agriculture,
respectively; now, under the law, the planting of new forests or
replanting of degraded, cut or burned areas is subject to an
authorization when the occupied area exceeds 2 ha, and below this
limit, just only a prior notification, and that the distance of these
plantations to infrastructures and farmlands can be much smaller –
in short, eucalypt is currently regarded as a normal forest specie.
There are even amazing coincidences, there aren't?! >:P
Ever
since, almost all forest plantations and replantations have been
eucalypts, and West (region famous by Rocha Pear, a internationally
celebre variety of pear, which is pretty toothsome, and I recommend
to eat; but attention to your teeth, because this variety of pear to
do name justice* [lol]!) is
far from being the exception, moreover, is there that are the my most
reliable reports of what is being done with the new legislation on
eucalypts
plantations: pine forests are cut in advance to be planted groves of
eucalypts
after (you have to understand: today is safer and more profitable for
forest owners bet on eucalypt
than in maritime pine [Pinus
pinaster],
because: 1) the maritime pine forests are being violently buffeted by
wildfires and forest pests, among which stand pine wood nematode
[Bursaphelenchus
xylophilus]
and pine processionary [Thaumetopoea
pityocampa],
and 2) the eucalypt
cutting age is 10 years, while the maritime pine cutting age is 40
years – and so much bad things can happen to a maritime pine forest
in 4 decades, to the consternation of forest owners!), are being made
a great soil mobilizing, contractors are as sniffer dogs in search of
groves of eucalypts
for their owners to sell the eucalypts
to be cut (the most incredible thing about this is that there have
been offers for eucalypts
with... 5-year-old! Seriously!), areas that once were mosaics of
pasture zones, vines, groves of eucalypts
and pine forests are now continuous groves of eucalypts,
etc. :\
Attention, no one here is demonizing eucalypt!
As a matter of fact, this tree type gives us many useful things for
our day-to-day: pulpwood to make paper pulp, oil to make
pharmaceutical, antiseptic, repellent, flavouring, fragrance and
industrial products, nectar (of some species of eucalypts) to produce
high-quality monofloral honey, wood to make naval means of transport
and didgeridoos (a traditional Australian musical instrument [come
on, the musical art, whatever it is, is important, nor if only to
relax!]), among other things. The problem in this case is be being
made a massive «eucalyptization», and the nefarious consequences
thereof are already visible in the West: the great soil mobilizing,
often on steep slopes, is resulting in a large soil erosion, the
continuous groves of eucalypts
have very little biodiversity, they mischaracterize the natural
landscape (landscape more monotonous), the nearby water reservoirs
suffer a water loss, etc... However, the height of hassle of many
locals are in the form of a sinister creature that lurks in the newly
installed controversial plantations... >:P
It's
O Chupa-Cabras. It have serpentine body with 2 dam in length (I told
you it was enormous!), crocodile head, bright green bottom of the
body, light brown top of the body to blend with the leaf litter of
the woods, yellow green eyes the size of small plates, a single row
of dark green dorsal scales from the tail tip to almost to the top of
the head, a pouch in the mouth as pelicans have in the beak, big
red tongue and white (with a little gray) rectangular teeth. It
appeared in the West, who knows from where, when the eucalypts began
to be planted massively there. Ever since, it spends almost every day
resting in a more secluded part and with more thicker leaf litter of
grove of eucalypts, moving away thereout to hunt when hungry. >:)
The goat livestock farmers of the region don't like it because it
attacks goats, its favorite food! As if not enough goats have less
and less pasture to feed (they even have good mouth, but, apparently,
they think the eucalypt leaves indigestible), now they have a
ruthless predator that don't kill them, but grinds them... Or better,
sucks them! A few times it
picks up a goat that walk distractedly by grove of eucalypts, but
most of the times it goes and meets its preys. This unusual creature
moves closer to a pasture zone where is a herd of goats; arrived
there, it's camouflaged in the leaf litter of grove of eucalypts
through the color of the top part of its body, waiting for the
opportune moment to attack – it's very patient, can wait hours and
hours. Once that moment comes (examples: when a goat passes by
distractedly near it, or has his back), it creeps fast (believe me,
it's very fast!) to catch its victim! It grabs it with tongue,
collect it for mouth with help of teeth and put it in its pouch
(which can contain up to an adult human). And then, it sucks it like
a menthol candy, without swallowing it (its digestive tract is too
narrow to pass solid food), for 20 to 30 min! Even seriously! No use
for victim try to leave the torture of suck, because the inside of
the pounch is resistant to anything. In the end, it spits it as the
core of an olive, and he goes to his retreat with hunger sated,
leaving the unfortunate victim alive, but covered in drool (lol!)...
and almost always with sequels for the rest of life: the sucked goats
get very nervous and jumpy, they stop producing milk, their meat is
inedible and their leather is impossible to be worked for the
clothing confection – a huge loss to the goat farmers, who do not
know what to do to stop this diabolical creature! The only way to
avoid its predation is to close at night the goats in a stable or
barn, but unfortunately not all farmers, because they can not, or
stubbornness (some farmers think a challenge to brake O Chupa-Cabras,
nor that lose all the goats!), not can do it, always having to leave
the goats at mercy; traps have been made to catch it, but it's very
clever and avoided them all; no use attack it, not even with lead –
its skin is tough like armor, and nothing makes dint in it (its only
weak points are eyes and the inside of the mouth, but these are well
sealed while he feeds). Finally, it seems, unless the continuous
groves of eucalypts are withdrawn, only when all West goats are
treated as chewing gum by this unstoppable creature (it only attacks
a victim once, it seems that it doesn't like the taste of life forms
that he soaked up [lol]!) is that it will go away to other places in
search of new goats to feed! >:P
O
Chupa-Cabras can be here hidden, about catch its victim... >B|
But
not all bad news! Do you think it only feeds on goats? You are wrong!
It also sucks bitches and sons of a bitch! And woe unto people who
are bad news who have the folly, deliberate or not, to go through a
place where is this argus-eyed creature, if it's hungry – they are
sucked ruthlessly, such as goats! It's unbelievable and inexplicable,
but it gets to know if a person is mean or not! And look who were not
a few people who have had the «privilege» of be in the mouth of
this gluttonous creature! Such as goats, the sucked people are
forever traumatized (besides of covered in drool [lol!]): they are
madly grounded, and many flee so far away from the region, with the
idea of never to return there! Many people of bad character, who has
been attacked or has not yet been attacked, is closed for days
indoors (already happened this intrepid creature was attacking inside
houses whose doors were open [he is capable of detecting a bastard
very afar]!), but, as they say here «who has ass has fear», only
bitches and sons of a bitch are walking restless, the people of good
character can be tranquil – and look who this people know it very
well! A positive curiosity: crime in the West declined since this
cool creature has taken up residence there! As you see, O
Chupa-Cabras is also a very useful creature to society (a little
off-topic: I believe, although they, in one way or another, can put
us I believe, although they, in one way or another, put us in
trouble, all Forest Monsters have some benefit for us humans, if only
to tell us that something is wrong – we still have to understand
them...)! >;-D
I know I can be being
blasphemous, but I, partly, wish that is made the
«eucalyptization»... Or better, a «eucalyptization» from West to
Parliament and to headquarter of such forestry company mentioned in
the first paragraph (whose prime raw material for the production of
pulp, fine printing and writing paper [its industrial activity] is...
Eucalypt! Have you seen?! More a amazing coincidence!!) – thus,
there would be a eucalypts corridor for O Chupa-Cabras to go to those
2 places, where it will find food in abundance ... and are not goats
(lol)! >B-P
Tips
and precautions:
No need to be afraid:
despite its monstrous aspect, O Chupa-Cabras is a harmless, peaceful
and quiet Forest Monster. You can approach it, and photograph it,
without problem... Unless you have the smell of a goat, you have
something worn goat skin that has never been attacked by it, or you
are bitches/sons of a bitch who never were inside its mouth – then,
you prepare to be sucked like a lollipop and then be thrown away as
chewing tobacco (lol)! 3:)
* Out of curiosity:
the Rocha Pear is so named because «Rocha» is the surname of owner
of 1st pear tree of that variety, obtained by casual seed in the 1st
half of the 19th century; but «Rocha» is also «Rock» in
Portuguese! xP
