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In 1979 the Swamp Rabbit species enjoyed a brief stint of notoriety when one Swamp Rabbit had a close encounter with Jimmy Carter. In April of that year, as President Carter was fishing on a small pond on his farm, a visibly agitated Swamp Rabbit approached his boat and tried to board. Carter used a paddle to splash water at the rabbit in order to dissuade it from swimming towards the boat. The press dubbed this the "Killer Rabbit", in honour of the violent rabbit in the film Monty Python and the Holy Grail.