Seasonality of auricular amputations in rabbits:
Abstract
This retrospective observational analysis hypothesizes that an increase occurs in online reports and images of auricular amputations of confectionary rabbits during the spring. Using the online search engine Google, online content and visual portrayals of confectionary rabbit auricular amputations from 2012 to 2017 were identified and trended against seasonal variations. To determine incidence, commercial availability of chocolate rabbits in retail facilities were assayed. A statistically significant increase in mention of rabbit auricular amputations occurred during the spring. Mapping techniques showed the annual peak incidence for 2012 to 2017 to be near Easter for each year studied. Human adults and children appear to be wholly responsible for the reports of rabbit auricular amputations. Reconstructive techniques are dependent on the percentage of auricular defect. Laryngoscope, 127:773–775, 2017
This report, available in full at the link provided above, is well worth a read.
Has RFC 1149 — A Standard for the Transmission of IP Datagrams on Avian Carriers — finally met its match?
(Score: 3, Insightful) by BenJeremy on Monday April 10 2017, @11:33AM (4 children)
Shouldn't this have appeared on April 1st?
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Monday April 10 2017, @12:04PM (3 children)
Uhhhh - no, why? What do rabbits have to do with April Fool's Day? You may see a couple brown or white rabbits here and there on April 1st, but most are still hibernating on the 1st.
Abortion is the number one killed of children in the United States.
(Score: 1) by Scruffy Beard 2 on Monday April 10 2017, @11:35PM (2 children)
The rabbits around here change from white to brown in the spring (vice versa in the fall). I don't think they bother hibernating.
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Tuesday April 11 2017, @01:15AM
Oh, THOSE rabbits. The rabbits in the article are hibernators. They lay around in warehouses sleeping in perfect climate control. ;^)
Abortion is the number one killed of children in the United States.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 11 2017, @04:48AM
Chocolate bunnies change from brown to beige in the freezer.
(Score: 2) by NotSanguine on Monday April 10 2017, @12:13PM (1 child)
Rabbit ears! Tasty, tasty rabbit ears!
We should be able to just buy those!
No, no, you're not thinking; you're just being logical. --Niels Bohr
(Score: 2) by martyb on Monday April 10 2017, @12:19PM
Wit is intellect, dancing.
(Score: 2) by ilsa on Monday April 10 2017, @04:15PM (1 child)
Reading this paper has opened my eyes to the traumatic suffering of these poor rabbits. This is groundbreaking research folks, and the authors are most definitely deserving of some kind of award for their efforts. I hope the Annals of Improbable Research jump on this.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 10 2017, @04:53PM
What are we, savages? We should kill chocolate rabbits humanely if we're going to eat them ears first!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 10 2017, @04:58PM
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_TZdeJ8fsuPc/R-ZkiewR8iI/AAAAAAAAA2I/pCZmCbvcGpQ/s400/bunny.jpg [blogspot.com]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 10 2017, @06:14PM (4 children)
The slogan used to be "Yesterday's news, Tomorrow!"
Now it seems to be "Last week's news, next month!"
It no longer counts as news if it is not in fact new, there is a time element to these things.
April 1st was 9 days ago peeps. This makes me angry enough to bite someone's hollow head off.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 10 2017, @06:32PM
Peeps? They didn't analyze the disposition of the Peeps, just the bunnies.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 10 2017, @06:52PM
"What is Easter"
(Score: 2) by aristarchus on Monday April 10 2017, @06:53PM
April 1st was 9 days ago peeps.
What holely calender are you on, that Easter occurs on April 1st? Even the Pagan "Rite of Spring" with the Maypole and stuff is still a ways off.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 10 2017, @08:48PM
The only animal that I associate with April 1st is a fish.
In France on that day, it's considered to be hilarious to stick a paper fish or a picture of a fish onto the back of your victim (kinda like a Kick Me sign).
Indeed, they call that day Poisson d'Avril. [google.com]
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The large broods produced by rabbits and chickens have become associated with fertility, rebirth, Spring, and Easter.
Candy chicks and bunnies are typical Easter treats.
Easter follows a lunar cycle, so it doesn't fall on the same date each year.
This year it falls on April 16.
That's this Sunday.
Hope that clears up things for you.
How do they celebrate Spring where you are?
-- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 10 2017, @07:00PM
In my dream, Alexander Holyfield was made of delicious chocolate. I nibbled on his ear...
(Score: 2) by tangomargarine on Monday April 10 2017, @07:13PM
"Chocolate rabbit ears are eaten more in the spring."
I guess the obscurative science-speak was the joke? Oops.
"Is that really true?" "I just spent the last hour telling you to think for yourself! Didn't you hear anything I said?"