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Lepus Anteoculini

Jackalope
Image:Jackalope.jpg
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Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Lagomorpha
Family: Leporidae
Genus: lepus
Species: Anteoculini

Should a fictional animal such as this have a tatobox so similar to real animals? I think it's kind of misleading, since the classification is completely made up. Bryan 07:23, 18 Feb 2004 (UTC)

I think the answer is obvious: no, it shouldn't have a taxobox, especially not one that's completely mucked-up (Carnivora isn't a genus). This is just Reddi being silly again (he tried to put a taxobox into Wookiee too). --No-One Jones 07:40, 18 Feb 2004 (UTC)
I'll also note that Anteoculini fails the Google test, leading me to think that it's a category straight out of the author's imagination. --No-One Jones 07:44, 18 Feb 2004 (UTC)
It wasn't meant as original research ... but as bj-a-odn JDR 20:26, 19 Feb 2004 (UTC)

Why is this listed as a fictional animal? I have a pet Jackalope at home. They're not common, and there are probably a lot of fakes around, but they are a real animal.

http://images.google.com/images?channel=s&rls=org.mozilla%3Aen-US%3Aofficial&hl=en&q=Shope+papillomavirus&btnG=Search+Images 71.53.163.211 21:53, 10 February 2007 (UTC)

a pet jackelope? You have to call a newspaper than! It must be the first jackelope caugt alive! Beware of scientists, they will probably want to study it (actually, this means they cut him into pieces and you don't want this to happen to your beloved pet).

I know they exist. I'd read about them in a really TRUSTABLE scientific magazine. So I also wonder: why is this animal classified as a fictional creature? How trustable is Wikipedia if real existing animals are called fictional? What will be the next animal said not to exist? A horse maybe? Or a dog? Perhaps a salmon?

try looking up "Shope papillomavirus," a form of cancer that causes bunnies to grow horns. This does not make jackalope a species71.53.163.211 21:50, 10 February 2007 (UTC)


Wouter Vereydt

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[edit] Jackalope.jpg

The image in this article (Image:Jackalope.jpg) does not currently have any source or copyright information - and so it can now be deleted. I've looked around on google images for the original but can't source it. Does anyone here know where its from or have a free replacement image they could upload? Cheers Agnte 19:01, 15 November 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Jackalopes are real.

http://ww2.lafayette.edu/~hollidac/jackalope.html

According to this website, the Shope papilloma virus creates horn like growths similar to keritan horns on human skin tumors on jackrabbits and cottontails. The myth of a jackalope is probably based on the factual occurrence of diseased horned rabbits... this places a whole new important spin on the article.

Gotnerve 07:46, 28 January 2006 (UTC)

you say that this virus creates this growhts on human skin tumors on jackrabbits and cottontails eh? How dou you explain a human skin tumor on a jackrabbit or a cottontail? I don't think these animals are human...

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[edit] Frasier

There was a reference to a Jackalope in Frasier, along with, I think, the head of one mounted for show. I can't remember the specifics enough to add it in though.

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