The truth about 'aliens' in Panama

According to the US National Geographic website, not long ago, five Panama boys said, discovered and beat an 'alien' playing next to a small river.

Immediately, Panama Local Television dedicated an interview with the five boys mentioned above about the 'alien' event. A boy when he interviewed recalled: 'At that time I was swimming in the river, suddenly felt something grasping my legs. My friends and I dragged it out of the water, using stones and sticks to attack it. We have never seen such creatures. '

According to the boy, this unidentified creature has pale face, flattened nose, very long hands, curved nails like a hawk's nail. After attacking this animal, the five boys thought it was dead and used the camera to capture the creature.

They claim that this unknown animal is 'alien' and has taken photos taken online. The 'alien' event immediately caused a lot of attention on the online community, many people called this unknown hybrid creature 'Panama aliens.'

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The "Panama alien" portrait is in fact a decomposing three-fingered sloth in the water, difficult to identify.


But medical experts after the operation of this organism discovered, this rumored 'alien' is actually just a dead sloth, and its body has begun to rot. before the five boys found out. André Sena Maia, Rio de Janeiro zoo (vet) veterinarian, explains, in a dry environment, people can easily detect dead creatures, but if the creature dies falling into the water, their bodies soaked in water may be deformed, it will be very difficult to detect. Chances are, these five boys are not exactly differentiated and think it is alive.

After five boys claimed to have discovered and beat 'aliens' for four days, Panamanian officials picked up bodies that were thought to be 'aliens'. The Panama Environment Bureau organized medical experts to conduct an "alien" surgery. Medical experts participated in the surgery to identify, this is actually just a male three-nail sloth. The trident is a common animal in Central - South America.

Melquiades Ramos, a Panama Department of Animal Health veterinarian, said: 'During the autopsy, we found this wound with a wound on our body. Based on the pictures taken by the boys, it may have been soaked in water two days before being discovered ' .

Maia explained more about the photo: 'Very clearly, this is a rotten state formed when soaked in water. The animals after death fall into the water, their feathers will quickly be shed, the body will be smooth, look like the skin, under the effect of bacteria, the decaying body will create an atmosphere that some bodies are raised, so this kind of strange animal appeared. "