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Released:
Wednesday, October 22, 2014
Origin:
Alabama, United States
Recently Spotted:
In the hands of SteveMcManaman17.

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I would like to travel all over the world!  Will you help me?  Thanks!I would like to travel all over the world!  Will you help me?  Thanks!

About This Item

oolong

Oolong (ウーロン Ūron?)(Originated from Chinese: 烏龍) (July 28, 1994 – January 7, 2003) was a domestic rabbit owned by Hironori Akutagawa. Oolong became an Internet phenomenon through his owner, Akutagawa, uploading images of the rabbit with objects balanced on his head.

Akutagawa's site featured "photo journeys" of Oolong traveling with his master through the house, yard, and other locations. The website became known to a wider audience when it was covered in 2001 by Syberpunk, a site which focuses on odd aspects of Japanese culture.

Oolong was trained to balance objects on his head, an art called "Head Performance" by his owner. The first object balanced on Oolong's head was a 35mm film canister on 25 May 1999.Akutagawa later used tea cups, bread, fruit, pancakes (actuallydorayaki), and a rabbit skull. 

Throughout the rabbit's lifetime, the photographer continued to document his journeys through natural and not-so-natural environments as well as take hundreds of pictures of the rabbit balancing objects. Oolong has been noticed by the media, including the New York Times, and has become a widespread Internet meme. One of Oolong's photographs was used as an image macro called "Bunny Wafflehead" which featured Oolong balancing a dorayaki on his head. Another photograph shows Oolong with a pancake on his head with the caption "I have no idea what you're talking about... so here's a bunny with a pancake on its head."

Oolong died on January 7, 2003. Akutagawa took photographs of the rabbit's last days alive and included some of them on his website. Oolong was succeeded as Akutagawa's pet by another rabbit named Yuebing (translation: moon cake), a netherland dwarf.

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Tracking History (81055.5mi) View Map

Visited 4/2/2016 keymüdo took it to In the eye of the storm (NC) - BONUS Bayern, Germany - .07 miles  Visit Log
Visited 4/1/2016 keymüdo took it to Aussichtspavillon Lonnerstadt Bayern, Germany - .12 miles  Visit Log
Visited 4/1/2016 keymüdo took it to In the eye of the storm (NC) Bayern, Germany - 22.51 miles  Visit Log
Visited 4/1/2016 keymüdo took it to Archivvorankündi:Kräuterrundweg, Fleißige Helfer Bayern, Germany - 2.23 miles  Visit Log
Visited 4/1/2016 keymüdo took it to Spiel & Spaß am Abenteuerspielplatz (Tischtennis) Bayern, Germany - 20.87 miles  Visit Log
Retrieve It from a Cache 3/28/2016 keymüdo retrieved it from Hochzeitscache für Torsten und Barbara Bayern, Germany   Visit Log

zum weiterreisen getauscht

Dropped Off 3/28/2016 Geophil54 placed it in Hochzeitscache für Torsten und Barbara Bayern, Germany - 22.57 miles  Visit Log

Auf dass er auch mal fränkisches Kulturgut auf dem Kopf balanzieren möge. He might be qualified to carry frankonian traditional devices on his head too:-)

Visited 3/27/2016 Geophil54 took it to Fahrbahnbegrenzer Bayern, Germany - .3 miles  Visit Log
Visited 3/27/2016 Geophil54 took it to SPC #7 - ATV 1873 Frankonia Nürnberg Bayern, Germany - .29 miles  Visit Log
Visited 3/27/2016 Geophil54 took it to Dibadibadu Bayern, Germany - 1.34 miles  Visit Log
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