Word: lepus
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...noticed something more. Animals, he suggests, are now an endangered species in the realm of make-believe. The Muppets are perky humanoids or cuddly monsters; Big Bird is barely the simulacrum of an ostrich. For that matter, Hoagland notes, Bugs Bunny was less obviously a member of the genus Lepus than were such precursors as Peter and Br'er Rabbit...
...Frogs, Ray Milland is devoured by-you guessed it. In The Night of the Lepus, Janet Leigh is hungrily eyed by 1,500 mad, mutant rabbits, photographed so that they appear six feet tall. In Dr. Phibes, bats, bees, rats and locusts are on an angry prowl. Yet to come are a thriller about man-killing spiders; a spine-tingler about murderous house cats; something called Pigs, Pigs, Pigs; Rats, Rats, Rats; and the inevitable Dr. Phibes Rises Again...
...Since it takes only 21 days for a rat to have a litter of ten to twelve, we bought a dozen and left it up to them," says Moe Di Sesso, the trainer for Willard and Ben. By the time the company "of The Night of the Lepus arrived on location in Arizona, its rabbit contingent had increased by more than 10% and was about to rise again...
...smeared with peanut butter, they were even polite enough to stop with the peanut butter. The rabbits, by contrast, appear never to have heard of Pavlov. "We trained them in California to associate food with clicking sounds, so that they would head in any direction you clicked from," says Lepus Producer A.C. Lyles. "When we got to Arizona, we found they'd already forgotten everything we taught them." The rabbits also had a tendency to drop out of stampedes to munch on the scenery, forcing their trainers to gorge them beforehand -thus making them too lethargic to respond...