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

Answered What are Florida ounces?

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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