That's actually a very sad story.

Damn. I saw this a week or two ago...knew I should've posted it!

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!

Yeah... a photo sure would have been nice considering it is the year 2005!

There's not that rabbit, but here's pics of live ones: http://ww2.lafayette.edu/~hollidac/jacksforreal.html

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.

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).

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.

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.

A little research and viola! A picture worth a thousand hoaxes: http://ww2.lafayette.edu/~hollidac/jacksforreal.html

wow CCC, those are some truly disturbing photo's, i think i am going to puke now

Oddly enough CCC, that's the exact same link that Winona provided earlier.

Why am I just hearing about this now......so jackolopes are real...

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....

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.

This pdf has more reliable picture (from same site).

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?

Holy socks, Winona, what pictures!

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.

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!

At the natural history museum on the campus of the University of Kansas at Lawrence, there are at least a dozen real examples (now long dead, of course) of "jackalopes," jackrabbits with a virus causing weird growths on their heads, such as that in the original story.

where are jackolopes found because my step dad
went on a hunting trip in east texas and said he seen some but i did not belive him

I've seen them in my house after dark... they can pick locks and managed to get into my oreo cookie stash. They also ate all of my allergy medicaition, i think they were trying to kill me.

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