diff --git a/src/requests/exceptions.py b/src/requests/exceptions.py
index 6e71506e96..c511c3c331 100644
--- a/src/requests/exceptions.py
+++ b/src/requests/exceptions.py
@@ -118,7 +118,12 @@ class InvalidProxyURL(InvalidURL):
 
 
 class ChunkedEncodingError(RequestException):
-    """The server declared chunked encoding but sent an invalid chunk."""
+    """The server declared chunked encoding but sent an invalid chunk.
+
+    This may also be raised when the connection is interrupted mid-stream,
+    resulting in an incomplete chunked response. Retrying the request may
+    succeed in cases where the error is caused by a transient network issue.
+    """
 
 
 class ContentDecodingError(RequestException, BaseHTTPError):