A Collector of Oddities

By MinBannister

Jackalope

This little cutie is a Jackalope, a cross between a jackrabbit and an antelope.

It is normally regarded as being a joke animal however there is a condition whereby rabbits are infected by the Shope papilloma virus which causes horn like protrusions from the rabbits face and body and this may have given rise to the idea of an antelope-rabbit.

According to Wikipedia Ronald Reagen claimed to have caught one and had it stuffed and mounted and hanging up in his ranch ready to show to unsuspecting reporters. I don't know if that is true but I hope it was!

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