{"id":10029,"date":"2025-08-13T14:04:49","date_gmt":"2025-08-13T19:04:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=10029"},"modified":"2025-08-13T14:04:52","modified_gmt":"2025-08-13T19:04:52","slug":"zombie-rabbits-with-black-horns-and-mouth-tentacles-are-invading-colorado-backyards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2025\/08\/13\/zombie-rabbits-with-black-horns-and-mouth-tentacles-are-invading-colorado-backyards\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Zombie\u2019 rabbits with black horns and mouth tentacles are invading Colorado backyards"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ca.news.yahoo.com\/colorado-residents-alarmed-rabbits-black-151411404.html?guccounter=1&amp;guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly9uZXdzLmdvb2dsZS5jb20v&amp;guce_referrer_sig=AQAAADFa3iJ2hXKLvbeyYN2ztqnUfsd_OK-LKZyuiaPqY0bSRgNQZVbjsBd-2IwL6waf4wYJGWCPooSC4kV4RuIYeNtFu_cQd99BDC9go9gSBQjzxlnHY_L3zoIl3yiyYwUYAWDvTqevwG0KMIyq7EfKU2HPnMlO7w937C9cFdvModjc\">Independant<\/a> What the heck is that?!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Rabbits in Colorado are causing alarm among residents and looking more like creatures from nightmares and not fuzzy and cuddly friends. Rabbits in Fort Collins, Colorado, are being spotted with eerie black-colored growths resembling tentacles or&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/horns\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"horns, opens in a new window\">horns<\/a>&nbsp;protruding from their heads.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>9NEWS Northern Colorado reporter Amanda Gilbert captured&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.9news.com\/article\/news\/local\/fort-collins-rabbits-virus\/73-a3afc465-4296-4f2b-8491-023d10295661\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"a photo, opens in a new window\">a photo<\/a>&nbsp;of one not-so-cute rabbit with the growth on its head, which resident Susan Mansfield said looked like \u201cblack quills or black toothpicks sticking out all around his or her mouth.\u201d<\/p>\n<!-- <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"\/secure-location.php\" title=\"oPXxLq   BcI Po am\">oPXxLq   BcI Po am<\/a> --><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Independant What the heck is that?! Rabbits in Colorado are causing alarm among residents and looking more like creatures from nightmares and not fuzzy and cuddly friends. Rabbits in Fort Collins, Colorado, are being spotted with eerie black-colored growths resembling tentacles or&nbsp;horns&nbsp;protruding from their heads. 9NEWS Northern Colorado reporter Amanda Gilbert captured&nbsp;a photo&nbsp;of one not-so-cute [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":10030,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10029","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-coping-with-covid"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Screenshot-2025-08-13-at-15.03.17.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10029","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10029"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10029\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10031,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10029\/revisions\/10031"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10030"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}