People never believe me when I tell them there's a such thing as Giant Bunnies, they look at me like "Do you see pink elephants to?"..-Kitty
This is Herman the Bunny from Germany.
Ralph the rabbit is the world’s ‘biggest bunny.’ At two feet tall, and weighing in at 42 pounds, Ralph eats an impressive four pounds of food per day!
This is a giant bunny from Germany weighing 28 pounds.
Another giant German bunny
via dailymail.co.uk
The above image has appeared in a number of newspapers in the U.S. and abroad, all of which attest to its authenticity while reporting somewhat inconsistent measurements for the giant bunny depicted.
According to the BBC, Herman is just under a meter long and weighs 7.7 kilograms (about 17 pounds). Ditto the New York Post. The Sun of London, on the other hand, lists Herman's weight as 22 lbs., as does Ananova.com. I was able to find very little information on the "German Giant" breed of rabbit, though online sources confirm that full-grown specimens of the British and Flemish variants of the breed can indeed weigh up to 10 kg. (22 lbs.).
Even at the higher figure, Herman appears to fall just short of being the largest bunny on record, pound for pound. In 2004, the BBC ran a story on a British Giant named Roberto, who stood a few inches taller than Herman and tipped the scales, allegedly, at a whopping 35 lbs. A spokesperson for the Guinness Book of World Records, which no longer issues official titles for such categories, was quoted as saying Roberto was the biggest rabbit they'd ever heard of.
