What's a Mapinguari? Well, according to Wikipedia, it has "one eye, long claws, caiman skin, backward feet and a second mouth on its belly". I also read somewhere-but I can't find the source at this time-that one of it's special powers was to turn day into night by it's very presence. So according to the internet it looks something like this:
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| Except maybe not so plush. |
I understand that many cryptids have some sort of basis in reality, or at least resemble animals that could possibly exist. But what on earth were the people smoking when they came up the the Mapinguari?
Current theories include prehistoric ground sloths or some sort of giant primate like Sasquatch, but then that just means a cryptid was derived from cryptid which is just kind of...wha...?
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