an animal called a Cabbit? It's supposed to be the result of a cat and rabbit mating. The end result is the front of the animal looks like a cat, but the back looks and hops like a rabbit?
2007-01-24 14:38:43 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Pets ➔ Other - Pets
The existence of the "Cabbit", a supposed hybrid between cat and rabbit, is fictitious, although not without a grain of truth. A cat and rabbit are very far distant from each other on the evolutionary chain, and cannot possibly interbreed.
However, there are genetic deformities in the forelegs, with which a cat can be born, which mean that the cat has abnormally short forelegs in proportion with the hindlegs, and means that the cat moves with a hopping gait, similar to a rabbit.
A more pronounced version of this defect can leave the cat with no more than vestigial forelegs, in which case the cat can only hop along on the hindlegs. These have been called kangaroo cats, but are no more a hybrid with kangaroos than a cabbit is with a rabbit. Any variation of this is simply a cat with a genetic defect.
2007-01-24 14:58:08 · answer #1 · answered by meptastic 3 · 3⤊ 0⤋
The cat-rabbit myth was first documented by Joseph Train of Castle Douglas, Galloway in "An Historical and Statistical Account of the Isle of Man" (1845). Train stated that cabbits were the product of matings between female cats and buck rabbits. The portmanteau term cabbit is used for alleged hybrids. The exact year of coinage is uncertain. It was used in 1977 to describe a specimen found in New Mexico and exhibited in Los Angeles.
Cabbit is also a term that has been applied to fictional half cat, half rabbit creatures in anime. It is derived from the words "cat" and "rabbit," a mixture used by fans to describe Ryo-Ohki in the series Tenchi Muyo (although the term is never used within the series).
2007-01-24 22:55:38 · answer #2 · answered by sknymnie 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's highly probable that someone, seeing a manx cat for the first time, assumed it was the result of such an impossible mating.
2007-01-24 23:53:10 · answer #3 · answered by Susan R 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A Cabbit is a myth. no such thing
2007-01-24 23:02:05 · answer #4 · answered by Fish Lover 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
there is no such thing as a cabbit. They are a ridiculous myth.
2007-01-24 23:54:56 · answer #5 · answered by ♥ballerina♥ 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Only in a Japanese anime called Tenchi Muyo.
2007-01-24 22:45:52 · answer #6 · answered by Erica L 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
never seen one before
2007-01-24 22:45:51 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
what?? not possible
2007-01-24 23:10:54 · answer #8 · answered by pumpkin 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋