COMMOTION OVER AGUARA GUAZU ARGENTINA SIGHTINGThose who have been following INEXPLICATA for a few years now will recall the 2001 events involving the belief in the supernatural entity "lobizon" that forms part of Argentinean, Uruguayan and southern Brazilian folklore. In this case, the unknown creature was positively identified as an Aguara Guazu, an odd, deer-legged canid. But the "lobizon" belief remains strong.. SC SOURCE: El Norte-Edicion Digital
ARGENTINA: Commotion in Saenz Pena Over an Aguara Guazu Sighting SAENZ PENA: ALL BELIEVED IT WAS A LOBIZON, BUT IT WAS ONLY AN AGUARA GUAZU "I saw it, I saw it...it was huge. I don't believe in such things, but others at the "10" service station also saw it. It was a lobizon," said Francisco, a young man who yesterday evening was driving along Calle Belgrano in his small Fiat Spazio when suddenly "a dog the size of a calf crossed my path and uttered a very ugly cry. I pulled over because I was really scared," he told a radio station. The appearance of an animal similar to a large dog in the downtown area caused a stir in this city and it wasn't long before word spread - mainly over the phone - that "the Lobizon is loose in Saenz Pena", according to the countless eyewitness stories collected by radio stations contacted by frightened locals, who claim having seen and heard a strange beast they didn't steatite to associate with the Lobizon. "Call Professor Lopez and ask for his opinion, because it's the same creature that appeared in Concepcion del Bermejo," suggested an AM radio listener. The alleged Lobizon appeared suddenly - who knows how - in the downtown area. Witnesses claim seeing it around the Club Accion (15th street, between 16th and 18th) and later along 11th street heading eastward, zig-zagging in the vicinity of a service station. "I was on my motorbike, about to fuel up, when I saw that the service station employee got scared and ran into the office, but I had no idea what was going on. Then I stopped the bike and heard a howl similar to that of a human, something chilling, but saw nothing until a boy told me that the Lobizon was afoot. I tried to start the motorbike but it wouldn't turn over...I almost fainted," said Alejandro Soto to an FM radio station. He works as a security guard and was heading back to his home in Barrio Puerta del Sol. A well-known radio journalist from Barrio Santa Teresita acknowledged that the howling of local dogs "didn't let me sleep.Then I went outside and heard growls that gave me goose- flesh," he said. Other accounts were also heard: "Why shouldn't we be afraid, when a huge dog the size of a calf, with big ears and howling like a human [appears]?" asked Martin Caballero, who was heading home along 11th street on his bicycle, returning from a friend's house. "This was a hairy, long eared critter that ran very fast - I saw it! It screamed like someone was beheading it," explained Ramon Arroyo, who had just finished his work shift at that early hour of the morning. Jorge García, the director of the city's zoo, confirmed that the alleged Lobizon was a "poor harmless aguara guazu" that was captured after a long chase that ended at a garage on 17th street. The reason for its appearance downtown is a result of the prolonged drought that afflicts the region, explained Garcia to LT16 Radio Saenz Pena. Add to this the modification of its natural habitat, the excessive expansion of the agricultural area and the permanent modification and fragmentation of natural environments, "and the animal goes out in search of a more suitable habitat, disorientedly so, sometimes in a suburban and urban area finding an excess population of dogs, which frighten it. With every step it hears more barks, more klaxons and it begins a frightened race." This is the second time that an Aguara Guazu appears in the business district. The first was on 1st and 28th streets. "On that occasion, it ran onto the premises of a shop and we captured it without the media ever hearing about it, but don't forget that in Napenay, when one of these creature got into a ranch house when Boca was playing the final game of the America Liberators Cup, national television showed up to film the alleged Lobizon and all that foolishness," remarked the zoo director. =============================== Translation (C) 2004 Scott Corrales
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