You may be interested in an article within the current issue of Bacpacker
magazine (Feb. 2001) about Jackalopes.  It seems there is a real virus that
results in the growth of fibrous nodules on plains rabbits.  There is a
picture of one such rabbit in the magazine; it certainly helps me
understand how the jackalope tall-tale might have originated.  It's a
creepy lookin' rabbit alright.  This was a bit of a follow-up to a story in
a past-issue of Backpacker (August-Sept. 2000?) where they pursued the
elusive creature in some of America's best backpacking locales.
Timothy Reed
Office of the State Archaeologist of Iowa
University of Iowa

At 05:42 PM 11/21/2000 -0800, you wrote:
>I still remember seeing a mounted fur-bearing fish in a very fancy,
>dimly-lit, northern Ontario restaurant as a child many years ago -> there
>was a little brass plaque explaining how the exceptionally cold river
>water, which flowed beside the restaurant (a converted mill), probably
>encouraged this rare mutant fish-form...
>
>I suppose that today's singing-animated-mounted-fish ("take me to the
>river, Billy Big Mouth Bass") novelty is a similar manifestation...
>
>
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