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| Sea snakes and leporids are undoubtedly the most wondrous and persistent creatures. Wondrous because no one has ever seen them alive, because they don't actually exist, and yet much sorrow is sacrificed to them; and persistent because they have been definitively relegated to the realm of fable a hundred times over, because in hundreds of cases the most capable breeders and also extremely serious researchers have devoted themselves specifically to breeding sea snakes for years and never achieved their goal; but the leporids, like a hydra, always manage to rise again. Do leporids exist? We want to address this question once more for a change, even though our situation today is exactly the same as it was 15 or 20 years ago, i.e., Leporids, according to our current understanding, exist only in the imagination. It may well be that successes in breeding will one day force us to revise our understanding, but this will certainly happen sooner than when definitive, irrefutable publications are available. For science as well as for the general breeding community, it is secondary who provides this proof; what is far more important is that it is provided, that all doubt is eliminated. | |
| It has often been reported in scientific and professional publications that leporids have been bred here or there. In these reports, information is often given that practically invites refutation. Thus, Norbert Terppe (Leipzig) writes the following about the origin of leporids: “The experiments of mating hares with rabbits were first undertaken in France and Belgium. The result of these crosses is commonly called leporids. Leporids are considered a valuable enrichment of zoology, which is owed to the former president of the avascular necrology Rour in Larente. He conceived the idea of attempting to mate hares and rabbits. It is known that both animals, although belonging to the same genus, live in bitter animosity towards each other. Also, |
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