We get cartoony with imaginary creatures, infectious diseases, and desecrated animal corpses :) Join us as we attempt to profit off of the demise of a sweet little critter, pick on cryptozoologists, taxidermists and....Americans (Oh my! How blasphemous!) and share some useless unscientific and morbid information that is sure to destroy all our chances of collaborating ever again!
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Huge THANK YOU!!! to Lindsey for helping narrate our absurd nonsense and being so cool!
Check out their podcast "Just Might Exist" HERE
If you enjoy hoax animal nonsense, be sure to check out Lindsey's episode on the Missourium.
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Send us suggestions and comments to darwinsdeviations@gmail.com
Outro sampled from "Sequence (Mystery and Terror) 3" by Francisco Sánchez (@fanchisanchez) at pixabay.com
Sound effects obtained from https://www.zapsplat.com
Image Credit Joris Hoefnagel, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (Episode image is heavily edited, the image owner reserves all rights to their image, and is not affiliated with our podcast)
SOURCES:
A LOT of Wikipedia articles
NY Times: Douglas Herrick, 82, Dies; Father of West's Jackalope
Jackalopes of Wyoming – Myth or Reality?
Fantastically Wrong: The Disturbing Reality That Spawned the Mythical Jackalope
The World’s Scariest Rabbit Lurks within the Smithsonian’s Collection
Escudero, Clara & Williams, Richard & Timm, Robert & Pérez-Tris, Javier & Benitez, Laura. (2015). A Century of Shope Papillomavirus in Museum Rabbit Specimens. PLoS ONE. 10. e0132172. 10.1371/journal.pone.0132172.
Zimmer, C. (2011). A planet of viruses. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
Morrow, William (2013). The Big, Bad Book of Beasts: The World's Most Curious Creatures. ISBN 978-0062087454
Irwin, Ken. (2009). Storytelling: An Encyclopedia of Mythology and Folklore. Armonk, NY: Sharpe Reference 2008. , ISBN: 978 0 7656 8047 1
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