A rabbit grows ... ivory

Thinking that only elephants can monopolize the right to ripen - a pair of sharp horns grow from the mouth. Well, the rabbits are also competing for this position.

The scientific community is the phenomenon of Shopes Papillomavirus - a kind of disease that causes rabbits to become deformed: horns, tusks or antlers scramble to sprout as if they were ' descendants ' of deer groups.

Rabbits that grow ivory under their mouth are quite rare, because most of those infected with this papillomavirus often have horns and antlers on their heads. This animal was caught in the garden by an American named Mark Frauenfelder.

Currently the Museum of Natural History at the University of Kansas (USA) also maintains a stuffed rabbit with a sharp ' forest ' of antlers, not to mention a lot of tumors that proliferate throughout themselves.

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