Having grown up on the highways and byways of the American Southwest, I have to mention that, despite the name, jackalopes were almost always jackrabbits with deer antlers.
Also, the āantelopeā of the AmSW are generally pronghorns, which are not actually antelopes. Didnāt stop people from calling them that, though. (-:
(I am obligated to point these things out, since my Spirit Animal is a robot jackalope, whose sigil I found on a jewelry display in a truck stop just outside Tehachapi.)
Does that look like a horn? To me it just looks like it got into a scrap and its ear got torn.
Defect?
That is a birth enhancement.
yes!!!
Yeah, itās quite aesthetically pleasing. Iām curious to know if the animalās hearing is enhanced or diminished in anyway. Itās a cutie, either way.
Headline, meet question mark.
Question mark, meet Betteridgeās Law.
This is well-documented, itās actually a type of fungus.
That doesnāt look like Shope papilloma virus, which is what causes the ānaturalā or ārealā jackalopes. The āhornsā on those are actually a cancer caused by the SPV virus, pretty much the same way human papilloma virus can cause cancer in humans, as the two viruses are very closely related.
It really looks like this particular rabbit had its ears bitten when it was very young - itās not uncommon for stressed mother rabbits to bite, mutilate or even eat their babies. Though to tell if itās a birth defect or wound would require closer inspection for scar tissue around the breaks in the ears.
-Bucket, child of former rabbit breeders.
Thatās a rabbit who made a narrow escape from a coyote.
#LIESĀ
Iāve seen this before, in Minnesota. Apparently, itās a papilloma virus that affects the skin & bone growth of the jackrabbit, causing horny or floppy deformities. It will eventually kill the rabbit, and itās kinda gross.
Iām thinking birth defect. In the second photo, even the mouth/jaw looks jacked up. Four ears; Vanishing Twin Syndrome maybe?
Poor guy 
the purported ājackalopeā, identified as Richard Allen Klein II, was later quoted as saying āWhat? Whaaaat??ā
that rabbit is a god damn deathmetal song.
Whereās the Bassalope?
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