falble t1_isuvjjs wrote on October 18, 2022 at 9:36 PM

Reply to comment by Muscalp in Woodland creatures by Kabourek4

What’s the myth behind the wolpertinger? I love cryptids, so when I stumble across foreign ones it’s fun to learn.

Muscalp t1_isw89kk wrote on October 19, 2022 at 3:42 AM

Not much to say. Hunters probably mixed up the corpses of their game to create a new animal. However there‘s a hypothesis that all these cryptids that are rabbits with horns were created by rabbits with papillomavirus, which creates tumors.

falble t1_it1vje2 wrote on October 20, 2022 at 10:15 AM

Oh yeah, I'm positive that's what it was. To be fair though, can you imagine walking around looking for food, and this comes at you?: https://www.reddit.com/r/natureismetal/comments/ifnqr0/rabbit_infected_with_the_shope_papillomavirus/