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Dead Jackalope
In Jackalope news: a Minnesota woman found in her yard a dead rabbit with horns growing out of its head, exactly like a jackalope. A veterinarian declared that it had been infected by Shope papilloma virus, "a highly contagious disease that causes rabbits to grow things on their head and face that look like horns." The veterinarian's explanation is, of course, part of the continuing conspiracy to conceal the existence of jackalopes from the general public.Posted By: Alex | Date: Wed Sep 07, 2005 | Permalink |
Total Comments: 23
Category: Animals, Tall Tales
Category: Animals, Tall Tales
Listed in chronological order. Newest comments at the end.
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That's actually a very sad story.
Posted by Dan in USA on Wed Sep 07, 2005 at 09:00 PM
Damn. I saw this a week or two ago...knew I should've posted it!
Posted by Smerk in to mischief on Wed Sep 07, 2005 at 09:23 PM
Hmph. I want a photo, dernit..
Still, this does raise an interesting question regarding the reality of the jackalope.
Can it be considered a mythical animal if there is a possibility, however remote, that this virus would cause antler-like growths? A rare case of a mythical animal becoming more real rather than less!
Posted by Bobcat on Wed Sep 07, 2005 at 10:02 PM
Still, this does raise an interesting question regarding the reality of the jackalope.
Can it be considered a mythical animal if there is a possibility, however remote, that this virus would cause antler-like growths? A rare case of a mythical animal becoming more real rather than less!
Yeah... a photo sure would have been nice considering it is the year 2005!
Posted by Mark-N-Isa in Midwest USA on Wed Sep 07, 2005 at 10:20 PM
There's not that rabbit, but here's pics of live ones: http://ww2.lafayette.edu/~hollidac/jacksforreal.html
Posted by Winona in USA on Wed Sep 07, 2005 at 10:27 PM
Freaky pics Winona... you can kind of get the "feel" for this story just by reading... but seeing those pics really drove it home! Now I feel sorry for the poor things.
Posted by Mark-N-Isa in Midwest USA on Wed Sep 07, 2005 at 10:37 PM
Bechtold said the disease does not infect humans or domestic rabbits.
No domestic rabbits eh? I agree Alex, its a conspiracy. There's no reason why domestic rabbits should not get this (unless its because they do not often come in contact with wild rabbbits).
Posted by LaMa in Europe on Thu Sep 08, 2005 at 12:12 AM
No domestic rabbits eh? I agree Alex, its a conspiracy. There's no reason why domestic rabbits should not get this (unless its because they do not often come in contact with wild rabbbits).
That's so sad. I feel so sorry for the poor critters.
I don't mind reading the article but when I see the photo's I get all depressed.
Posted by Nettie in Perth, Western Australia on Thu Sep 08, 2005 at 02:37 AM
I don't mind reading the article but when I see the photo's I get all depressed.
The domestic rabbit stocks have significant genetic difference from wild populations that they cannot readily interbreed, so it would make sense that they may not get the disease.
It might be useful if they did: Researchers into cancer went to a lot of trouble to breed starinas of mice with antler in the 1990s to study the growth of tumours, as antlers are in many respects a form of tumour. Check Science Google for antlered mice, or more particularly the IIRC Mallagan Institute if you require proof.
Posted by DFStuckey in Auckland New Zealand on Thu Sep 08, 2005 at 03:35 AM
It might be useful if they did: Researchers into cancer went to a lot of trouble to breed starinas of mice with antler in the 1990s to study the growth of tumours, as antlers are in many respects a form of tumour. Check Science Google for antlered mice, or more particularly the IIRC Mallagan Institute if you require proof.
A little research and viola! A picture worth a thousand hoaxes: http://ww2.lafayette.edu/~hollidac/jacksforreal.html
Posted by CCC on Thu Sep 08, 2005 at 06:49 AM
wow CCC, those are some truly disturbing photo's, i think i am going to puke now
Posted by Chuck in Rhode Island on Thu Sep 08, 2005 at 07:20 AM
Oddly enough CCC, that's the exact same link that Winona provided earlier.
Posted by Charybdis in Hell on Thu Sep 08, 2005 at 07:30 AM
Why am I just hearing about this now......so jackolopes are real...
Posted by X in McKinney, TX on Thu Sep 08, 2005 at 07:39 AM
Those pictures are fake. All they did was take an old field rabbit and photoshopped the fingernails of an old New Dehli swami on it. It's not even a good photoshop job. Don't fall for it. It's a hoax....
Posted by booch on Thu Sep 08, 2005 at 08:42 AM
Yes, and we all know how reliable booch's judgement is, don't we?
Anyone who cares to can easily get information on this disease online.
http://www.medirabbit.com/EN/Skin_diseases/Viral_diseases/papilloma.pdf
Warning! Disgusting Pictures in this document.
Posted by Charybdis in Hell on Thu Sep 08, 2005 at 08:59 AM
Anyone who cares to can easily get information on this disease online.
http://www.medirabbit.com/EN/Skin_diseases/Viral_diseases/papilloma.pdf
Warning! Disgusting Pictures in this document.
This pdf has more reliable picture (from same site).
http://www.medirabbit.com/EN/Skin_diseases/Viral_diseases/fibroma.PDF
Posted by vorin on Thu Sep 08, 2005 at 11:15 AM
http://www.medirabbit.com/EN/Skin_diseases/Viral_diseases/fibroma.PDF
Yes, we know all about how booch knows everthing. Impart some of thy wisdom unto us, booch! we don't belive a word you say...
Anyhoo, freaky pictures, Winona, but I couldn't reach the pages chary and vorin posted. Could anyone else?
Posted by Snowy in aeternum on Thu Sep 08, 2005 at 02:27 PM
Anyhoo, freaky pictures, Winona, but I couldn't reach the pages chary and vorin posted. Could anyone else?
Holy socks, Winona, what pictures!
So jackalopes are real, after all. Yikes!
Is the jury still out on jackdeer?
Posted by Big Gary in Dallas in Dallas, Texas on Thu Sep 08, 2005 at 03:16 PM
So jackalopes are real, after all. Yikes!
Is the jury still out on jackdeer?
I appreciate the compliment, snowie, but I don't know everthing, just more than you. Actually, most of the stuff I write is in fun- I think the humor's lost on your foreigners who post at an american site. We welcome you to our country's web pages, though, with no resentment at all. Welcome.
Posted by booch on Sat Sep 10, 2005 at 10:45 AM
I wish I hadn't looked at Winona's pics... :-(
Jackalope? More like a cross between a rabbit and something undescribable from H.P. Lovecraft's Cthulhu mythos... Ugh!
Posted by eovti in Sandefjord, Norway on Mon Sep 12, 2005 at 05:19 AM
Jackalope? More like a cross between a rabbit and something undescribable from H.P. Lovecraft's Cthulhu mythos... Ugh!
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