"When Susan Mansfield, a resident of Fort Collins, Colorado, first spotted some peculiar-looking rabbits hopping around her neighborhood, she described them as having "black quills or black toothpicks sticking out all around" their mouths. One rabbit visited her several times, she told KUSA: "I thought he would die off during the winter, but he didn't, he came back a second year, and it grew." Which worries us; "I thought he'd die, but he came back" being among what you might call Famous Last Words, the kind of ominous tagline common to monster movies and infamous cyborgs."
"Aside from marauding zombies, is there anything scarier than the sound of a couple arguing? Wolves certainly seem to hate it. And so, in an effort to discourage them from killing livestock, the U.S. Department of Agriculture's loudspeakers have been blasting audio from an argument between Scarlett Johansson and Adam Driver in the 2019 film Marriage Story. Evidently, everyone's a film critic, even wolves. USDA District Supervisor Paul Wolf (no relation), told the Wall Street Journal, "I need wolves to respond and know that, hey, humans are bad.""
Residents in Fort Collins reported rabbits with unusual black quill-like growths around their mouths. The University of Missouri identified the condition as Shope papillomavirus, a DNA virus seen most frequently in Midwest cottontail rabbits. Colorado Parks and Wildlife indicated the condition does not appear to harm the rabbits or threaten other animals, including humans. Media applied sensational labels such as "zombie bunnies" and "Frankenstein rabbits." In Oregon, the U.S. Department of Agriculture has played recorded human arguments from the film Marriage Story over loudspeakers to discourage wolves from attacking livestock, with officials aiming to make wolves perceive humans as dangerous.
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