Japan: rabbit with no ears born close to Fukushima nuclear plant

[cory777]

Source: The Telegraph

The rabbit was born on May 7, according to its owner, Yuko Sugimoto, in the town of Namie, which is just outside the 18-mile exclusion zone that has been imposed around the crippled plant. The town has, however, been identified as a radiation hot-spot.

"I have been raising rabbits for more than 10 years and this is the first time something like this has happened," Ms Sugimoto told the weekly magazine Flash.

As well as having no ears, the rabbit also appears to have clear signs of albinism - a pure white coat and red eyes - that are the result of mutations in several genes.

Outwardly, the rabbit appears to be healthy and video footage posted on YouTube shows it eating vegetables in an enclosure, although the owner said she has since stopped eating locally grown produce.

Read more: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/japan/8574000/Japan-rabbit-with-no-ears-born-close-to-Fukushima-nuclear-plant.html

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[thelordofhell]

1. Not rare & not limited to radiation sites

That is all

:shrug:

[AtheistCrusader]

2. Still, bears watching.

But, correlation/causation, as you pointed out.

[jberryhill]

4. I didn't even know Japan had bears

But why aren't the bears eating the rabbit?

[Obamanaut]

8. They enjoy the simple pleasure of watching. nt

[jberryhill]

18. I'll bet they like eating rabbits that can't hear them coming nt

[Obamanaut]

19. Something positive, for the bears anyway. nt

[hyphenate]

3. Ummmm....this is actually something that was posted

about 5 days ago. The little guy looks like a sweetie. I think that mutations often have no known cause, and this little guy is one of those with no known reason for the differences. Even humans, including many around the world are born every year with extra fingers, toes, or other such mutations.

I just hope they didn't euthanize him or dissect him--he's too adorable to have been killed for any such reason.

[IScreamSundays]

6. Oh for fugs sake

We know that the contamination levels of the soil and the ground water have taken place. The sea water has been contaminated. There was just a story yesterday about a tea company that can't sell their tea. It is not a stretch to think that we will not start to see birth defects in animals and god help us new born children in the next six months. We have not even begun to realize the horrors of this disaster.

[Maru Kitteh]

17. When the horribly disfigured babies fail to show up en masse for your convenience

to where will you shift the goalposts?

[Tripod]

5. Two months ago I was shot down.

I posted that 500,000 would die, be affected by this. Even the Moderators stopped my post. Have you heard a death toll today? Me either,, The rabbit might be a normal situation in life, What will happen next. I don't want any thing from those farms. I know that 1/2 million will die over time!

[jberryhill]

7. Um... 7 billion are going to die "over time" - that's certain, and obvious

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[Bonobo]

12. You were shot down because it was a stupid comment.

"Have you heard the death toll today?"

YES, IT IS ZERO due to the radiation but around 25,000 due to the tsunami.

Kono baka.

[bowens43]

15. you should have been shot down for that......

making things up doesn't help the situation. You do NOT know half a million will die.

[iwishiwas]

11. umm. My guess is he will be spared from the stew line up.

[Motown_Johnny]

13. America: A Horse With No Name is released in 1972 and is certified "gold"

by the Recording Industry Association of America.

[uppityperson]

20. Proving that a jingoistic song with stupid rhyming words are impossible to delete from one's head

Name rain pain
red bed dead
free sea
badger badger badger badger mushroom mushroom

[bowens43]

14. Blaming it on the nuclear crisis is ridiculous,,,,

This sort of thing happens everywhere

[trof]

16. It's a SCHMOO!

A shmoo is shaped like a plump bowling pin with legs. It has smooth skin, eyebrows and sparse whiskers—but no arms, nose or ears. Its feet are short and round but dexterous, as the shmoo's comic book adventures make clear. It has a rich gamut of facial expressions, and often expresses love by exuding hearts over its head.

Cartoonist Al Capp ascribed to the shmoo the following curious characteristics. His satirical intent should be evident:

They reproduce asexually and are very prolific. They require no sustenance other than air.
Naturally gentle, they require minimal care, and are ideal playmates for young children.
Shmoos are delicious to eat, and are eager to be eaten. If a human looks at one hungrily, it will happily immolate itself, either by jumping into a frying pan, after which they taste like chicken, or into a broiling pan, after which they taste like steak. When roasted they taste like pork, and when baked they taste like catfish. (Raw, they taste like oysters on the half-shell.)
They also produce eggs (neatly packaged), milk (bottled, grade-A), and butter—no churning required. Their pelts make perfect bootleather or house timber, depending on how thick you slice it.
They have no bones, so there's absolutely no waste. Their eyes make the best suspender buttons, and their whiskers make perfect toothpicks. In short, they are simply the perfect ideal of a subsistence agricultural herd animal.
The frolicking of shmoon is so entertaining (such as their staged "shmoosical comedies") that people no longer feel the need to watch television or go to the movies.
Some of the more tasty varieties of shmoo are more difficult to catch. Usually shmoo hunters, now a sport in some parts of the country, utilize a paper bag, flashlight and stick to capture their shmoos. At night the light stuns them, then they can be whacked in the head with the stick and put in the bag for frying up later on.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shmoo