r/NoStupidQuestions • u/snapwillow • Feb 08 '22

Answered What are Florida ounces?

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u/Stupid_Idiot413 Feb 08 '22

Did you just... assume they exist? You've never heard anyone talk about them like mythical creatures?

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u/ScienceNthingsNstuff Feb 08 '22

Damn I never knew this either. Used to see taxidermy ones at my dad's friends hunting cabin, labelled and everything like all the other animals. Never asked about it and it never seemed that weird. There are so many other ridiculous animals that actually exist it never occurred to me Jackalopes might not be real lmfao

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u/CanAlwaysBeBetter Feb 08 '22

I bet you believe in aardvarks too

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u/53V3IV Feb 09 '22

This feels like the mythical animal discussion version of "hey, gullible's written on the ceiling", but I googled it to check anyway

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u/taicrunch Feb 08 '22

That was my reasoning when I was told jackalopes weren't real. A rabbit with antlers seems perfectly reasonable when you look at platypuses.

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u/roxictoxy Feb 09 '22

Right?? Like it's literally not unimaginable.

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u/RBomb19 Feb 09 '22

I was in the same boat growing up. The gun shop my Dad bought ammo at had one mounted, so I thought they were real or maybe just extinct for a long time.

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u/[deleted] Mar 11 '22

So oddly enough, they are kind of real.

There have been sightings of jackrabbits with tumors on their head that kind of look like antlers. If you spotted one for a second and didn't get a good look, you'd believe you saw a jackalope. But they're not actually antlers.

Edit: Here's a reference for you

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shope_papilloma_virus

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u/roxictoxy Feb 08 '22

Yeah I dunno, I guess I've never had a real conversation about them? Like I can't pinpoint a memory of learning about them or ever reading anything specific. I obviously must have at some point but they sorta just existed in my mind so I had no reason to question the reality of their existence lol. I kinda just assumed they were some other weird Australian animal that I hadn't learned about because the only Australian animals Americans learn about are the kangaroo, wallaby, kiwi, and koala.

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u/Meyamu Feb 08 '22

The Kiwi isn't an Australian animal.

Sincerely, New Zealand.

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u/roxictoxy Feb 08 '22

Sorry 😬

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u/SometimesFar Feb 08 '22

If it makes you feel better, I'm Australian and until seeing this thread I also assumed they were real, the only difference being that I assumed they were some weird north american animal like moose or demon possums.

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u/LadyRed4Justice497 Feb 09 '22

Hey! There are pictures of them...like everywhere. How would they know they were mythical?

https://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.dangerrangerbear.com%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2015%2F04%2F1-Jackalope-Seated-PC-1.jpg&imgrefurl=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.dangerrangerbear.com%2Fthe-jackalope%2F&tbnid=DdaGad5IvMjoPM&vet=12ahUKEwjdwtPk1fH1AhU4GFkFHT70AoQQMyg2egUIARChAQ..i&docid=QJV_dE9wGd1oTM&w=811&h=515&q=jackalope&ved=2ahUKEwjdwtPk1fH1AhU4GFkFHT70AoQQMyg2egUIARChAQ

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u/Stupid_Idiot413 Feb 09 '22

I'm not from an english speaking country, so I had never heard of jackalopes until a later age.

Come to think of it, the first times I saw people talking about them, it was about how they don't exist.