The jackalope story turns out to be so much more complicated than we would ever guess. Over 90 % of cervical cancer is caused by b v infection. But decades after the work on papaloma viruses by richard schop scientists use that early research to develop vaccine. This leads eventually to development of the human papaloma virus vaccine, the hp v vaccine. It saves millions of lives every year. And it would not exist without horned rabbits, and without a person who was curious enough to ask, how did these weird rabbits come to be the way they are? Mike lays out in the book that there is something charming and inexplicable that richard chope's work on horn
The magical mythical "jackalope" is a essentially a horned rabbit, with antlers of different sizes and shapes. The jackalope is a mascot of the American West – inspiring an absolute river of trinkets and songs and whiskies and postcards and tall tales.
Tale of the Jackalope