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Rabbits with black, tentacle-like growths sprouting from their faces have been spotted in Colorado

Colorado Parks and Wildlife (CPW) said the black growths on the rabbits are from a viral infection caused by the cottontail rabbit papillomavirus

Experts note that the growths often don't harm the rabbits, unless the nodules inhibit eating and drinking

Peculiar-looking rabbits with black, tentacle-like growths sprouting from their faces have been spotted in Colorado.

Several residents in Fort Collins, Colo., have spotted the rabbits while out walking in their neighborhoods and raised concern over the creatures' strange appearance, according to KUSA-TV .

"It looks like it was black quills or black toothpicks sticking out all around his or her mouth," Fort Collins resident

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