Only hours after being uploaded to YouTube, a video of a supposedly earless “mutant” rabbit born near the Fukishima Nuclear Power Plant in Japan has gone viral. The unsettling clip shows a newborn white rabbit completely lacking its species’ characteristic floppy ears.

So, as a certain cartoon rabbit might say, what’s up doc? The clip doesn’t offer a birth certificate for the rabbit,  there’s no evidence of where it was shot, and we have no idea why the rabbit has no ears–so basically take this one with a large grain of salt and maybe a carrot too. (Also, as the movie “X-Men: First Class” demonstrated, mutations can be cool and sexy. Maybe the rabbit can also turn invisible or shoot lasers from its hind legs, we don’t know.) In any case, the unverified clip is getting millions of hits and sparking a serious debate over the lasting health effects of the failed nuclear reactor at Fukishima.

Watch the clip after the jump.

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