Editing Chupacabra (section)

== Name ==
{{lang|es|Chupacabras}} can be literally translated as 'goat-sucker', from {{lang|es|chupar}} ('to suck') and {{lang|es|cabras}} ('goats'). It is known as both {{lang|es|chupacabras}} and {{lang|es|chupacabra}} throughout the Americas, with the former being the original name,<ref name=Clave>{{cite web|website=Diccionario Clave|url=http://clave.librosvivos.net/verficha.asp?idelementoaver=42243&cadena=chupacabras|title=chupacabras|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304000326/http://clave.librosvivos.net/verficha.asp?idelementoaver=42243&cadena=chupacabras|archive-date=4 March 2016}} states that both singular and plural is ''chupacabras''.</ref> and the latter a [[regularization (linguistics)|regularization]]. The name is attributed to Puerto Rican comedian [[Silverio Pérez]], who coined the label in 1995 while commenting on the attacks as a [[San Juan, Puerto Rico|San Juan]] [[Disc jockey|radio deejay]].<ref name=Pérez2000>{{cite book|last=Pérez|first=Silverio|author-link=Silverio Pérez|title=Más humortivación: para el camino del éxito|trans-title=More Humortivation: The Path for Success|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ZG3wb8qOgt8C|year=2000|publisher=Dreams Come True|isbn=978-0-9702011-0-2|page=7|access-date=25 April 2018|archive-date=16 November 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231116192847/https://books.google.com/books?id=ZG3wb8qOgt8C|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name=Bradford2017>{{cite web|url=http://www.centerforinquiry.net/blogs/entry/was_the_nightjar_an_early_chupacabra/|title=Was the Nightjar an Early Chupacabra?|last=Radford|first=Benjamin|author-link=Benjamin Radford|date=1 June 2017|website=Center for Inquiry|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190914000605/https://centerforinquiry.org/blog/was_the_nightjar_an_early_chupacabra/|archive-date=14 September 2019}}</ref>