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The Real Curse of the Were-Rabbit!
Posted: Sun Apr 09, 2006 12:20 am
by Silverclaw
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20060407/od ... NlYwM5NjQ-
Thats great.
Wonder if that picture is Photoshoped or something
Posted: Sun Apr 09, 2006 12:53 am
by Figarou
Whoa!! Now thats what I call "wabbit engineering!!"
Posted: Sun Apr 09, 2006 5:54 am
by Kirk Hammett
I hope that's fake!
Posted: Sun Apr 09, 2006 6:46 am
by Terastas
Nope. With selective breeding and/or the right environment, they really can grow that big.
My best guess is that the rabbit in question is an escapee from a breeder. While I have seen more than a handful of rabbits that size in captivity, I'm having a hard time picturing one growing that big in the wild, especially in strip-mined-to-[BLEEP!] England.
Posted: Sun Apr 09, 2006 8:22 am
by Scott Gardener
The parallels to Wallace and Gromit are astonishingly disturbing... I wonder if moon survey satellites will find an animated dishwasher, or if a penguin will get caught stealing the Hope Diamond?
Posted: Sun Apr 09, 2006 6:12 pm
by Hamster
Sweet! I hope is NOT fake.
Posted: Sun Apr 09, 2006 7:51 pm
by Anubis
DAMN THAT THING IS BIG!!!! it's bigger than my freaken CAT!!!
Posted: Sun Apr 09, 2006 11:47 pm
by vrikasatma
Oh my God, it's General Woundwort!!
Let's call the U.N....
Posted: Mon Apr 10, 2006 12:06 am
by Hearth
Let's just hope that it does not acquire a taste for human flesh.....
I can imagine it.
"We gotta be careful around this area. It's rumoured that there's a flesh-eating rabbit here."
"Oh please, there's no such things. It's just another tale that they tell to ki.." *GWAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHH* *TAKEITOFFTAKEITOFFTAKEITOFF* *burp*
Posted: Mon Apr 10, 2006 8:51 am
by Terastas
"What, behind the rabbit?"
"It is the rabbit."
- - -
"What's he do? Nibble your bum?"
Posted: Mon Apr 10, 2006 3:10 pm
by Searif
Kirk Hammett wrote:I hope that's fake!
its not, ive seen it on TV, moving and all
Posted: Mon Apr 10, 2006 3:46 pm
by Hamster
Searif wrote:Kirk Hammett wrote:I hope that's fake!
its not, ive seen it on TV, moving and all
Then I want to buy that rabbit!
Posted: Tue Apr 11, 2006 1:58 am
by Kirk Hammett
vrikasatma wrote:Oh my God, it's General Woundwort!!
Let's call the U.N....
Haha Watership Down! I love that film!
I cant believe that rabbit is real eh. What the hell did they do? More genetic modifications. -Sighs-
Hogzillaaaaaaaaaa!
Posted: Tue Apr 11, 2006 2:14 pm
by Set
Kirk Hammett wrote:I cant believe that rabbit is real eh. What the hell did they do? More genetic modifications. -Sighs-
You don't need to genetically modify something for it to grow that big. Around here (well ok, it was in Gerogia) some guy shot a pig that was absolutely
huge. It was a wild hog/domestic pig mix that was living off very high calorie food from a catfish farm. There was no human involvement at all in its life, just the combination of wild and domestic genes with a diet of fish food was enough to make it grow that large.
Posted: Tue Apr 11, 2006 3:15 pm
by Short Tail
The rabbit pictured there is just a large Rex. That breed gets the largest out of all the domesticated rabbits. (At least according to the breeder we bought ours from. They make good pets too and are really soft and snuggly, live a long time, and are just cute. Ours lived 8 years O_o )
One thing that you must take into consideration however, is the way the shot was done. Look at the size of the man's fist holding the rabbit by the scruff; they merely superimposed the rabbit in the shot. Once you take that into consideration, you are left with a rabbit that, while still large, does not go from the waist to a person's head.