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From: toms@fcs260c2.ncifcrf.gov (Tom Schneider)
Newsgroups: sci.bio
Subject: Re: Cats and Rabbits
Summary: anaplants?
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Date: 1 May 91 14:19:35 GMT
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In article <592@ariel.ucs.unimelb.edu.au> jcollier@ariel.ucs.unimelb.edu.au
(John Donald Collier) writes:
>In article <1991Apr28.152146.1353@usenet.ins.cwru.edu> axa12@po.CWRU.Edu (Ashok Aiyar)
writes:
>>I have just been told that cats and rabbits can mate under 
>>domesticated situations, producing offspring called "cabbits".

> Cabbits are actually a common rural phenomenon, along with unicorns.

There is also the famous Jackalope, which is a rabbit with antlers, found
depicted on postcards in Wyoming...

The strangest cross i came across (bad pun, sorry :-) was a paper which
reported a cell fusion of frog and carrot...  if it survived and grew up would
it jump up and down and have orange and green stripes?

  Tom Schneider
  National Cancer Institute
  Laboratory of Mathematical Biology
  Frederick, Maryland  21702-1201
  toms@ncifcrf.gov