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The jackalope is a mythical animal of North American folklore described as a jackrabbit with antelope horns. The word jackalope is a portmanteau of jackrabbit and antelope . Many jackalope taxidermy mounts, including the original, are made with deer antlers .
Goldhorn – white golden-horned antelope; Jackalope (North American) – jackrabbit with antelope horns; Keresh (Jewish) – giant deer of the forest of Bei Ilai; Peryton (Argentina) – Stag with bird parts; Qilin – East Asian chimerical good luck symbol; Tarand (European) also Parandrus. Antelope or deer like creature said to be found in ...
Though not an antelope, it is known colloquially in North America as the American antelope, prong buck, pronghorn antelope and prairie antelope, [5] because it closely resembles the antelopes of the Old World and fills a similar ecological niche due to parallel evolution. [6] It is the only surviving member of the family Antilocapridae. [7]
Hodag, a creature of the Wisconsin swamps possessing horns and spines. [13] [15] [5] Hugag, an animal similar to a moose, with stiff, jointless legs, and a large upper lip preventing it from grazing or lying down. [4] [5] Jackalope, a jackrabbit with the antlers of an antelope or deer. [9]
In the 1930s, hunters in northwestern Iowa reported that the rabbits they shot had several "horn" protrusions on many parts of their bodies including their faces and necks. [4] The virus is also a possible source of myths about the jackalope, a rabbit with the horns of an antelope, and related cryptids such as the wolpertinger.
A kudu horn is a musical instrument made from the horn of the kudu. [5] A form of it is sometimes used as a shofar in Jewish ceremonies. It is seen in the Western world in its use as a part of the Scouting movement's Wood Badge training program; the sounding of the horn signals the start of a Wood Badge training course or activity.
A Jackalope does NOT have antelope horns; it has Deer antlers, mostly whitetail type and only 2 points on each side! Please change the descripton.--Wyocop 19:23, 6 April 2015 (UTC) Wyocop 19:23, 6 April 2015 (UTC) Not done: please provide reliable sources that support the change you want to be made.
Their horns resemble those of the bovids, in that they have a true horny sheath, but, uniquely, they are shed outside the breeding season, and subsequently regrown. Their lateral toes are even further diminished than in bovids, with the digits themselves being entirely lost, and only the cannon bones remaining.