The video with a rabbit with many horns on its head excited Internet users - in less than a week, the video, shot by an American teenager, received 200,000 views.
Gunnar Boettcher, 20, who is a student at a college in Minnesota, noticed an animal had settled in the barn. The curious American took a closer look at the beast hiding among the firewood, and immediately recoiled - a rabbit with terrible growths on its face turned out to be an uninvited guest.
Gunnar decided to shoot an amazing animal, which he christened Frankenstein, on camera, but his attempts ended in failure - the timid inhabitant of the forest hid, barely hearing human steps.
“Whenever my brother and I approached, the rabbit ran away. We have never been able to closely examine it,”the student told the correspondent.
Recently, however, the guy and his 15-year-old brother Zander (Zander) finally got lucky: they managed to shoot a documentary about an unusual rabbit hiding in the garden.
The video begins with Gunnar's words whispering about "a monster with thorns sticking out of his head." Then the camera moves from the student's face to the grass in which the same "Frankenstein" sits.
According to the student, his video spread like wildfire on Facebook, becoming incredibly popular. The 20-year-old's best friend also posted the video on Reddit, where it received 223,592 views and 1950 comments in just 5 days.
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And although most Internet users have called the rabbit a monster, there is nothing monstrous or supernatural in its appearance. The fact is that the animal suffers from papilloma of the skin caused by the Shoupe virus. This pathology is characterized by the presence of genital tumors on the head and neck of animals.
Neoplasms can grow to such an extent that rabbits lose their ability to feed and starve to death.
Animals with the Shoupe virus have often been the source of scary stories of mythical creatures with the body of a rabbit and antelope horns. Illustrations of horned animals even appeared in scientific books in 1789.
By the way, the virus owes its name to Dr. Richard E. Shope, who discovered it in 1930.