(Lakewool, NJ) An ecological riddle wrapped in a zoological mystery inside an economic enigma has finally been deciphered after a months-long undercover investigation by an animal rights team on the ground in New Jersey.
It concerns the sudden explosion of the global rabbit population, whose numbers began to climb in 2017 after a century of hare-raising decline. Now an investigation by the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) has traced the unexpected bounce back of the furry hoppers to a surprising source: the dramatic shrinkage of hats worn by Orthodox Jews.
“Fedoras, which are the main driver of global rabbit fur sales, went out of fashion when Al Capone was locked up in 1931,” the WWF said in a statement. “Forensic analysts puzzled for decades about the decline in rabbit numbers. It’s now proven that the tripling of the global rabbit population closely tracks the average width of a Borsalino hat worn by Orthodox Jewish men in Lakewool, a heavily Jewish enclave in New Jersey, which has fallen by two-thirds since 2017.”
The breakthrough in the investigation came about through Rabbi Harley Davidson, of PETA Hamor — the Jewish Center for Animal Rights. “It was always clear to me that the hats were the problem and as an advocate for Tikkun Olam, it was clear that I needed to find a link,” said Davidson.
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