Thread 5030660

how can we save the rabbits?

A bizarre virus is turning rabbits in the U.S. into grotesque, horned creatures with black, tentacle-like growths — and sightings are rising fast.

Known as the cottontail papilloma virus (CRPV) or Shope papilloma virus, it causes tumors to develop on or near the rabbits’ heads.

Officials in Colorado are warning residents not to touch these infected rabbits.
>https://www.unilad.com/news/animals/colorado-rabbits-cottontail-papilloma-virus-tentacles-871628-20250812

>>5030660 (OP)
as if it already wasn't terrible enough being a rabbit.

>>5030664
why? you are just cute and jump in the grass

those are actually jackalopes

>>5030666
in the legend, are they just rabbits with antlers? or do they have some mystical powers?

>>5030660 (OP)
>CIA unleashed another virus onto creation
Glowies deserve whats coming to them

>>5030671
what do the glowies gain from ruining a rabbit's day?

>>5030665
There is far, FAR worse things than CRPV.
In my country we really struggle with Myxoma and you can find fields just filled with milky eye rabbit corpses. The worst part? There is no cure. So if a rabbit population is merely suspected to have Myxoma it is immediately quarantined and destroyed. The prognosis of any rabbit that contracts it is 2 weeks before death.

>>5030677
why it's only rabbits getting the most fucked up diseases en masse? what did they do to deserve this?

>>5030678
Fast reproducing animals like bees, bats, mice and rabbits seems to have trouble surviving disease/fungal infections.

>>5030671
The CIA didn't even exist when the disease was first noted. I forget when that was. Late 19th century, I think.
>>5030666
Yeah, I think the jackalope stories are from seeing bunnies with this shit in the wild and not knowing what to make of them until that scientist guy studied it whenever he did (1890s?)
>>5030660 (OP)
This is nothing new.

>>5030677
Yes this is so sad and saddest of all is that myxoma was deliberately imported to genocide bunnies here in Europe because muh farmers

>>5030678
It's because there are so many of them. Same reason bird flu causes so much havok. Also the reason why humans have so many different diseases.

>>5030660 (OP)
Poor bunny...

>>5030725
I can't stand people who think we should poison even pest animals. Sociopaths

>>5030660 (OP)

Are these real or manipulated?

>>5030828
Real. Rabbits can grow horns.

>>5030665
Low on the food chain. Very likely to be eaten. And eaten early in life.

>>5030676
They accomplish mass starvation. So that even if you live off the grid the wild life is tainted

>>5030828
Warts caused by papiloma virus

>>5030660 (OP)
that's what you get for fucking around with the Elden Ring

>>5030660 (OP)
Rabbit populations famously Boom and Bust. They're self-regulating in that regard, assuming there are predators around to eat them, which there generally are here in the US.

Thats a jackalope not a rabbit retard

>>5030660 (OP)
This is old news, I hate how they drudge this one back up as if it's a new thing.

Do the horns survive the decomposition process or do they rot since they're basically just fuckhueg warts? These would make for some gnarly mantlepiece skulls.

>>5032776
>article from a couple days ago
>"old news"
smartest 4chan user

>>5032803
https://www.outdoorhub.com/news/2013/07/15/jackalope-horned-rabbit-caught-on-video/
https://www.argusleader.com/story/news/2015/07/30/horned-rabbits-spark-concern/30914245/
like he said, it gets brought up every few years as if it's something new

>>5032798
They're keratinous, like hair and nails, so they decompose more slowly. If dried out before full decomposition and kept generally dry thereafter, they could probably avoid decomposition almost indefinitely (like a well cared-for woolen sweater) but I don't know for sure on this second point and it's only a guess. Short answer: yes, they decompose, but more slowly.
That said, no, they wouldn't make for "some gnarly mantelpiece skulls" because the growths are barely beyond skin deep and unattached to the bone beneath. Skulls of afflicted rabbits would likely appear normal to most people with small evidence of lesions having been there (if at all), otherwise, they'd be sold in every gift shop and occultist's store as a curiosity.

>>5030676
You can't hunt rabbits for self-sustainance anymore. (((They))) want you on the grid, paying taxes and eating up obscene ideologies.

>>5032916
sustenance

also you can't sustain yourself on rabbit alone, as is well known, although I know that wasn't your point

why can't something like this happen to seals instead

Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn!

>>5030660 (OP)
how much experience and what does it drop if you kill it?

>>5030660 (OP)
O horn-deck'd bun by viral infection deliver'd. Take root vegetable from my sculpted fingers. And perch'd thereon, I'll help thee, rise. Scritch and snuggle, thy fears I'll allay; metastasization, mandibular impingement, and cancerization of thy keratinous towers. I'll cleanse away thy malady's vile potency.

>>5030665
You're small and anything bigger than you probably wants to eat you
Oh wait, there's even animals smaller than you that are out to get you

>>5030660 (OP)
>in the US
>grotesque creatures
Checks out.