So my new favorite thing (as if you couldn't tell) is to look at the "Images in the News" section of chicagotribune.com. When I saw this, I thought... "Riiiiiiight, THAT'S real." Turns out, it IS!
Caption: (Getty photo by Sean Gallup / January 15, 2006)
Karl Szmolinsky, who raises a breed of rabbits called giant grays, shows Robert, an 8.5kg giant gray who is 74cm long and has ears 25.5cm long, in the backyard of his house in Eberswalde, Germany in 2006. Szmolinsky sold eight giant grays to a delegation from North Korea that wanted to raise the breed as a source of meat for the North Korean population. Szmolinsky said his rabbits reach a maximum weight of 10.5 kg (23.1lbs.).
There's also a video.
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Actually... I don't think that's the same man as in the picture, but the point is still the same. Big Rabbits.
ZOMG! I had a (possibly somewhat drunken) conversation with someone last year about the giant German rabbits, and I totally mocked him because I did not believe that they existed, and then he sent me links from the interwebs that proved it (alas, no video). Those animals should be cute, but they totally freak me out. Yikes! Rodents of Unusual Size!
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