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Endangered Fennec Hare Born at Korea Zoo

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The birth of one of the world's rarest creatures was celebrated this week at North Korea's Pyongyang People's Zoo. The Fennec Hare is on the brink of extinction with only a handful remaining in captivity.

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Photo Credit: Troop 1

Once found throughout the Iperian
Steppe, but now critically endangered, the Fennec hare relies on its acute auditory sense to evade
predators and detect its favored prey, the D. carota beetle.

132 responses to “Endangered Fennec Hare Born at Korea Zoo”

  1. stacy Avatar
    stacy

    cute april first post!

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  2. dragonet2 Avatar
    dragonet2

    April fools photoshop! Great though. Very cuuuuuute.

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  3. cael Avatar
    cael

    The “Worth1000” watermark kind of gives it away.

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  4. CW Avatar
    CW

    You got me for a second there, until I saw the Worth1000 logo! But I’m still staring at the picture…those eyes are mesmerizingly cute…

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  5. Velvucci Avatar
    Velvucci

    April Fool’s Day has to be my favorite holiday. Although it’s often kind of a scary eye-opener for how gullible I am!

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  6. Mouse Avatar
    Mouse

    LOL, I totally bought this, and i’m a worth 1000 member. Your site has such cute stuff all the time that I just went “Of course it’s a Fennec Hare. SOOO CUTE.”
    Congrats. I used it as my work avatar today, and now half of Yahoo! is convinced that “Fennec Hares” are critically endangered and must be protected.
    😀

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  7. sybann Avatar
    sybann

    The eyes definately gave it away for me! WAY too cute. And that’s a kitten face.

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  8. Meia Avatar
    Meia

    April fools! Hahaha, so cute. 😀

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  9. Pat Avatar
    Pat

    Ha…cute!

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  10. ym Avatar
    ym

    You fooled me!

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  11. Beeship321 Avatar
    Beeship321

    Im on my iPod so I don’t see this 1000 thing so the only way I got it was from Reading the comments. 😛 cute though

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  12. Holy Cuteness Avatar
    Holy Cuteness

    Haha, good one!

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  13. Kendra Avatar
    Kendra

    I WISH it was real, that thing is so stinking cuuuute. <3

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  14. Elyse Avatar
    Elyse

    Cutest April Fool’s photoshop I’ve seen so far 🙂

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  15. yuyu Avatar
    yuyu

    i dont see the logo

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  16. Hayley G Avatar
    Hayley G

    you had me for about 2 seconds…. fun, thanks!

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  17. Ottertee Avatar
    Ottertee

    D. carota, I see, is the wild carrot.
    This is clever.

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  18. Mel Avatar
    Mel

    I was trying to figure out why a rabbit would have a kitten face. And then I looked at the timestamp on the post.

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  19. darc Avatar
    darc

    i wish he was real
    D:

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  20. Katie Avatar
    Katie

    darn you, bleiman. You hoodwinked me. I even showed people at work!

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  21. Madi Avatar
    Madi

    I had to look this fennec hare thing up online! I totally bought it! I still though it was real until I read the comments! Those blue eyes gave it away!

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  22. Araya Avatar
    Araya

    This is so funny! I pulled an April fool’s prank on my cousin and told her I got a new bunny, and then I saw this! Too funny! Maybe I should send her this photo of my new bunny! hehe!!

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  23. Sue Avatar
    Sue

    You fooled me!!!! Mostly because wished this was a real animal….

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  24. Betherssss Avatar
    Betherssss

    Gorsh, I really fell for this.
    I wish they really did exist.
    That would be neat.

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  25. Kelly Dempsey Avatar
    Kelly Dempsey

    One problem with stumbling on a site and reading through countless pages of back-posts: you lose the context of the post dates (I don’t know about you, but I don’t study each timestamp when reading old blogs!)
    Granted, I probably would have fell for it, at least a few minutes until I had exhausted my google sleuthing skills…(or staring at that oddly kitten-like face for more than a few seconds!)
    Great job! Wish I had been here at the time. Next year….

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  26. http://bestworldstuff.blogspot.com Avatar
    http://bestworldstuff.blogspot.com

    very cute is that yours?

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  27. S Avatar
    S

    I knew this was fake. It freaked me out…ykwim

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  28. miley Avatar
    miley

    SAVE THE FENNEC HARE ITS ENDANERED!!!!!!

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  29. Chris Avatar
    Chris

    Miley, we are doing all we can. Thanks for the enthusiastic support.

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  30. silo Avatar
    silo

    thats so sad they are endangered! good job Korea Zoo
    for birthing one :))))))

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  31. s Avatar
    s

    it’s so cute!

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  32. michellegross17@yahoo.com Avatar
    michellegross17@yahoo.com

    Ok, the timestamp gives it away, but where is this Worth 1000 logo? I don’t see it.

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  33. Sarina Avatar
    Sarina

    THE cutest animal in the world!

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  34. Tracey Farrell Avatar
    Tracey Farrell

    Its not photoshoped.. The Fennec fox is really that adorable.

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  35. Blazestar Avatar
    Blazestar

    Lol You got me completely.I thought it was real.Nice April Fool’s.I didn’t see the logo though ;3

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  36. Dori Avatar
    Dori

    I’m on my laptop and I don’t see the “worth 1000” thing either.

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  37. jayydee Avatar
    jayydee

    fenech fox-yes…fenech hare-no 😐

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  38. Patrick Doyle Avatar
    Patrick Doyle

    What the hell’s wrong with you zooborns.com. This is a hoax and shame on you for proliferating it!

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  39. Andrew Bleiman Avatar
    Andrew Bleiman

    Hi Patrick,
    If you look at the date or read the comments, you’ll see that this was our first of what has become an annual tradition of April Fool’s Day posts. Our apologies for any frustration it may have caused.
    Best
    Andrew Bleiman

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  40. Natural Avatar
    Natural

    Love it I want one =]

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  41. Thevampire616 Avatar
    Thevampire616

    Idiots, so what if its fake stop being stupid and just go aaaawwwww cute instead!!!

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  42. RaSaL Avatar
    RaSaL

    Hahaha http://farm1.static.flickr.com/92/282665238_c0059d811c.jpg

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  43. Nursing Jobs Avatar
    Nursing Jobs

    So adorable but they are already extinct.

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  44. Beauty Avatar
    Beauty

    Omgsh.. that is soo cute.! i cant belive i wasnt the first person to post something on here!! smh i feel weird today!! But anyways its so CUTE!! $.$

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  45. Beauty Avatar
    Beauty

    What?

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  46. Sofia Alexandra Avatar
    Sofia Alexandra

    And now, five years later, this image is all over Pinterest, still fooling people into thinking it’s a real animal that needs to be saved from extinction. :/

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  47. Super-nova Avatar
    Super-nova

    Im on a mac and i dont see it either!

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  48. Super-nova Avatar
    Super-nova

    Are you sure this isnt real? I thought it was real until i read the comments D:

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  49. Super-nova Avatar
    Super-nova

    It is real, gosh people!

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  50. Super-nova Avatar
    Super-nova

    THIS ISNT REAL????? D: D: D: D: D: D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D: D:D:D:D:D: you just ruined my child hood

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  51. Super-nova Avatar
    Super-nova

    Your either living in the past or you got ur math wrong beacuse its only been 4 years

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  52. Robby Ray Avatar
    Robby Ray

    Wicked photoshop skills! Almost got me though. Wow.

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  53. Brooklyn Avatar
    Brooklyn

    Quite literally, you would have to be an IDIOT to even think for one nanosecond that this was real.

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  54. Jen Avatar
    Jen

    http://animals.nationalgeographic.com/animals/mammals/fennec-fox/

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  55. Jen Avatar
    Jen

    http://animals.nationalgeographic.com/animals/mammals/fennec-fox/ read up

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  56. SAW Avatar
    SAW

    That’s a FOX…
    This “hare” is a complete hoax. LOOK HERE:
    http://www.dailydot.com/culture/top-10-pinterest-hoaxes-debunked/

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  57. SAW Avatar
    SAW

    This is a hoax…
    http://www.dailydot.com/culture/top-10-pinterest-hoaxes-debunked/

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  58. lynn coleman Avatar
    lynn coleman

    its an april fools,no south aniannal

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  59. Kirsten Avatar
    Kirsten

    why the hell are zooborns keeping this on the page if it’s a hoax.

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  60. Anony Mouse Avatar
    Anony Mouse

    something can’t be extinct if it never existed.

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  61. Anony Mouse Avatar
    Anony Mouse

    that is a Fennec FOX. and of course they’re real. the one that needs to read up here is you. April 01, 2009 is the date of this post. that means it’s a prank. a prank that is very sadly still running wild having people believe it’s real.

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  62. Anony Mouse Avatar
    Anony Mouse

    April 01, 2009. the date proves that people are VERY easily tricked…

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  63. Barb Avatar
    Barb

    It’s fake, the link you posted is for a fox. The “hare” is fake

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  64. Daun Avatar
    Daun

    This isn’t a joke in Virgina they have a critter that’s 1/2 cat !/2 rabbit this is what happens when you stray off of your jeans strange little critters. But they are so cute….Love it

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  65. Jim Rockfrod Avatar
    Jim Rockfrod

    Not necessarily an idiot, there are a lot of creatures that we are not aware of yet. Your comment is one of an IDIOT….

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  66. Jesus Crisco Gonzalez Avatar
    Jesus Crisco Gonzalez

    The Fennec is a real animal! people are always ridiculing what they know nothing about, for example, my father and grandfather were always put down and called names because in display in our living room were two heads of the well known Jack-a-Lopes. we finally took them down and in their place put pictures of the Rev. Pat Robertson performing miracles. Thank you, Mrs.Jesus Crisco Gonzalez.

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  67. m Avatar
    m

    Fennec fox is real, its a desert dwelling fox..The hare is false. This photo shop thing is a joke. I really bad one.

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  68. m Avatar
    m

    Cat rabbit aka cabbit is a man made creature if it even exists.

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  69. Pit Mom Cam Avatar
    Pit Mom Cam

    NO IT IS NOT A HOAX! Why dont you research before you talk. Its a type Fox. The Fennec Fox. Thats not a hoax. Its a real animal.

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  70. Pit Mom Cam Avatar
    Pit Mom Cam

    People are idiots. They believe in UFOs or a God they dont see but not this. Its real. It is a Fox

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  71. Pit Mom Cam Avatar
    Pit Mom Cam

    Animal Wildlife Fennec Fox The Fennec Fox Is A Small Species Of Canine It s not a hoax and whats really ridiculous is people make comments about something without googling what a fennoc is. Use your head for something other than a hat rack

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  72. Pit Mom Cam Avatar
    Pit Mom Cam

    Is there something wrong with you? its real. Its a FOX. how can people in this day and age with Google and internet be so stupid

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  73. Pit Mom Cam Avatar
    Pit Mom Cam

    thats because it is not a hare. Its a specie of canine and fox http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fennec_fox

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  74. Pit Mom Cam Avatar
    Pit Mom Cam

    you do know it is real right? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fennec_fox

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  75. Pit Mom Cam Avatar
    Pit Mom Cam

    IDIOT- you people are so stupid. DOnt you realize it is real or are you too stupid to research something to find out? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fennec_fox

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  76. Pit Mom Cam Avatar
    Pit Mom Cam

    Thats because it is a real animal. Morons!
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fennec_fox

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  77. Pit Mom Cam Avatar
    Pit Mom Cam

    THEY DO EXIST MORON
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fennec_fox

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  78. Pit Mom Cam Avatar
    Pit Mom Cam

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fennec_fox
    Its not photo shop IDIOT

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  79. Pit Mom Cam Avatar
    Pit Mom Cam

    IDIOT! I hate stupid ignorant uneducated people. Educate yourself moron. THEY ARE REAL http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fennec_fox

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  80. Pit Mom Cam Avatar
    Pit Mom Cam

    then you are brain dead because it is real dont you know how to read? IDIOT http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fennec_fox

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  81. Pit Mom Cam Avatar
    Pit Mom Cam

    I hate stupid idiot people like you. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fennec_fox

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  82. Pit Mom Cam Avatar
    Pit Mom Cam

    people are idiots. Its easier to say photo shop then research that its real http://avaxnews.net/touching/Fennec_Fox.html

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  83. FENNEC IS rEAL Avatar
    FENNEC IS rEAL

    http://avaxnews.net/touching/Fennec_Fox.html they are keeping it up because they are not fake. thats why. stupid

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  84. FENNEC IS rEAL Avatar
    FENNEC IS rEAL

    No its not a hoax. IDIOT.
    http://avaxnews.net/touching/Fennec_Fox.html

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  85. FENNEC IS rEAL Avatar
    FENNEC IS rEAL

    Good for you well said. They are adorable. http://avaxnews.net/touching/Fennec_Fox.html

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  86. anonymous Avatar
    anonymous

    Everyone needs something to believe in. It doesnt not make them an idot. Its like a christain calling you am idot for not beileving in godand an aliens fanatic callin you and idot because you dont believe that there could be life in space.

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  87. JEANNE Avatar
    JEANNE

    http://wafflesatnoon.com/fennec-hare-real-or-fake/

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  88. JEANNE Avatar
    JEANNE

    Notice the date of the post 4/1
    APRIL FOOL’S DAY

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  89. wowamerica Avatar
    wowamerica

    wow to the idiots calling this a fennec fox….It is a cat with long ears photoshopped onto it. And the article does not say this is a fennec fox they say it is a fennec hare which DOES NOT EXSIST lol

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  90. Julie Avatar
    Julie

    http://wafflesatnoon.com/fennec-hare-real-or-fake/

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  91. Marco Avatar
    Marco

    Look at the date of the article. April 1st. Obviously a joke. Fennec is a fox. No such thing as a Fennec Hare.

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  92. Jaime Skipper Avatar
    Jaime Skipper

    Chill out. Yes, the Fennec Fox is a creature. No, the Fennec Hare, photos hopped above as a rabbit eared kitten, does not exist. Just look up D. carota. It’s a JOKE.

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  93. Anony Mouse Avatar
    Anony Mouse

    you’re the genius here. no one is talking about a Fennec Fox. yes, the Fennec Fox is real, but the article is about a Fennec Hare, an animal that does not exist. so the real question is, do YOU know how to read?

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  94. Anony Mouse Avatar
    Anony Mouse

    please stop calling people idiots you moron. this article is about the Fennec HARE, not the Fennec Fox. this is 100% photoshop.

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  95. Anony Mouse Avatar
    Anony Mouse

    you have got to stop this. the only moron here is you.

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  96. Anony Mouse Avatar
    Anony Mouse

    look in the mirror the next time you say “moron”

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  97. Anony Mouse Avatar
    Anony Mouse

    how about you learn to read. the words hare and fox look nothing alike, and this animal looks NOTHING like a Fennec Fox…because it’s not.

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  98. Anony Mouse Avatar
    Anony Mouse

    it’s sad that you have the internet and are this stupid

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  99. Anony Mouse Avatar
    Anony Mouse

    you know it’s fake, right? wait…you don’t…

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  100. Anony Mouse Avatar
    Anony Mouse

    this is 100% photoshopped

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  101. Anony Mouse Avatar
    Anony Mouse

    and it’s spelled Fennec

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  102. Anony Mouse Avatar
    Anony Mouse

    you need to educate yourself actually

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  103. Anony Mouse Avatar
    Anony Mouse

    how old are you? 12? no adult would call people an idiot in every single post they make.

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  104. Anony Mouse Avatar
    Anony Mouse

    IT. IS. A. HOAX! how about you READ before you type.

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  105. Anony Mouse Avatar
    Anony Mouse

    seriously? this thing is fake. get some glasses, educate yourself, re-learn what a cat is, what a rabbit is, and what a Fennec Fox is, and then sit back and realize how stupid you’ve made yourself look.

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  106. Anony Mouse Avatar
    Anony Mouse

    this is not a fox. it is a cat with rabbit ears

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  107. Anony Mouse Avatar
    Anony Mouse

    no one ever said the Fennec Fox isn’t real. if you actually took the time to look at the picture and read what it says, you would know that the article is about a Fennec Hare, an animal that doesn’t exist.
    and in case you weren’t aware, the Jackalope isn’t real either.

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  108. Anony Mouse Avatar
    Anony Mouse

    I’m beginning to hate you for your ignorance.

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  109. Anony Mouse Avatar
    Anony Mouse

    yes it’s a joke, and no you don’t have an animal that’s half cat half rabbit. you can’t get such different animals to breed. it’s just not going to happen. a wolf and a domestic dog? yes. a cat and a rabbit? my gods no.

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  110. Anony Mouse Avatar
    Anony Mouse

    my gods. it’s easier to say photoshop that to say this is real because it IS photoshopped! you’re ranting about a Fennec Fox when this article is about the non-existent Fennec Hare!

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  111. Crystal Avatar
    Crystal

    Snopes said this was a April fools hoax

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  112. Gonna say this really slow Avatar
    Gonna say this really slow

    If I were to say “yellow cat” and then say “yellow dog” would people still think they are the same thing? Now I’m going to say “Fennec fox” and then say “Fennec hare”. Do you still think they are the same thing? Now I’m going to say “photoshopped cat with rabbit ears” and then say “Fennec fox”. Will you still think they are the same thing?

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  113. debbie Avatar
    debbie

    don’t really know what it is – fennec fox fennec cat fennec hare all i know is its damn freaking cute!!!!!!! and if it was posted on April 1 probably is a hoax…..does look more like a cat with photoshopped ears plugged in…..still freakin cute though!!!!

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  114. Paolo IsellaDomina Avatar
    Paolo IsellaDomina

    Il fennec (Vulpes zerda, (Zimmermann, 1780)) è una piccola volpe che abita il deserto del Nordafrica (coste escluse). Anche se alcuni studiosi ritengono si tratti dell’unica specie facente parte del genere Fennecus, molti ritengono appartenga al genere Vulpes.

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  115. Anony Mouse Avatar
    Anony Mouse

    SNOPES said so?! how about looking at the post date! it’s plain as day up there!!! April 01, 2009
    I can’t believe the validity of this is still in question!

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  116. Anony Mouse Avatar
    Anony Mouse

    the word you are looking for is “idiot”. idot is not a word, but it kinda shows what an idiot you are.

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  117. Linda Tomolonis Avatar
    Linda Tomolonis

    Is it a hare or a fox?

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  118. Linda Tomolonis Avatar
    Linda Tomolonis

    It is not photoshopped!!

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  119. j Avatar
    j

    Fennec hare, not real. Google it. You can see the original pic of the kitten. Before it was changed. Unless you idiots think this is the original and they photoshopped the ears off! Fennec fox is real but babies look nothing like a kitten. Stupid people…use your resources.

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  120. Lisa Avatar
    Lisa

    Doesn’t matter if it is photo shopped. It is a very cute created animal. If it was really genetically engineered I would be one of the first to have one. I think its adorable.

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  121. L Avatar
    L

    you’re kind of being a dick about it though. Sure it’s not real, very little on the internet is. Let people have their fantasy, what is the harm?

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  122. Emily Kennedy Avatar
    Emily Kennedy

    Oh darn. I thought Zooborns was more credible than that!

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  123. Zennist Avatar
    Zennist

    Everyone calm down. That’s it.

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  124. Lolcrazy Avatar
    Lolcrazy

    That was so cute!

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  125. Annie Avatar
    Annie

    You r a dick. A lot of people don’t have time to research everything they read, dick! It sounds like u have a LOT of time on ur hands. Get a life!

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  126. Devon Avatar
    Devon

    What amazes me is how people that have the internet at their fingertips insist that it is real. I’m going to guess that the people who think 2 species as separate as a cat and rabbit could mate and produce young, are Christians who believe that God is responsible, and that evolution is wrong.lolol

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  127. Devon Avatar
    Devon

    I think that while he may could have used more tact, his point was correct. Critical thinking is the methodology of an intelligent mind. Otherwise you look gullible, naive, and frightfully stupid. You too can determine the verity of such a claim by simply go ogling it. This takes less than ONE minute. In your case maybe even 5.

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  128. Devon Avatar
    Devon

    ‘Stray of your jeans’. There is so many things wrong with that.’stray off your genes’? Even when using the appropriate spelling it makes no sense. Are you telling me that inter-species mating is possible? Please tell me that you dropped out of school in grade 2. No one else would think that over the age of 8, oh, or creationists who skipped biology and were home-schooled by their illiterate parents.

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  129. kaira Avatar
    kaira

    It’s a hare you ding bat didn’t you read it

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  130. Carolyn Spano Avatar
    Carolyn Spano

    Jeez all this bickering. Yes the pic is sooo cute!However, the REAL Fennec Fox is just as adorable. So where is the love for this little cutie of a fox? People, you all need to drop a few degrees and help global warming!

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  131. B Avatar
    B

    Sorry you are so unhappy Devon, hope your life gets better soon.

    Reply
  132. Joseph G Avatar
    Joseph G

    This comment thread is fascinating. It’s not real, but I wish the Fennec Hare were a real animal. The Fennec Fox is unfortunately an endangered species that I’d like to own and play with like it were a kitten. Oh well…

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