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Horatio Gilderschmuck was a scientist. He also was a Jew, who, in his younger years, was terrorized by roving gangs of orthodox Jews in his Brooklyn Heights neighborhood. These regular beatings, along with the loss of his entire family in a fatal fire, would later inspire young Gilderschmuck’s quest to isolate and extract the fear instinct from mammals. For his bar mitzvah, Gilderschmuck received two rabbits. As the fire swept through the Gilderschmuck house that night, the young scientist reached in the rabbits' cage and was bitten by the male. Gilderschmuck, in an instinctive reaction, threw the rabbit against the wall and killed it. He was able to save the female. Safely outside, listening to the chaotic demise of his still-trapped relatives, Gilderschmuck held the female rabbit close to his chest attempting to calm the animal’s racing heart. Embarrassed by his reaction and distraught over his inability to calm his pet, he swore to eradicate fear. Using that very rabbit as a brood mare, Gilderschmuck bred hundreds of generations of rabbits in the name of science. Fifty years on, Gilderschmuck was ready to display his life's work. To illustrate the difference between mere domestication and this new fear-free breed of rabbit, Gilderschmuck placed the newest hutch of rabbits inside an empty room, he opened a door to reveal a cage that contained three underfed and agitated stray dogs he had acquired from the pound earlier that morning. Some of the fearless rabbits approached the snarling, barking canines, oblivious to their impending doom. Gilderschmuck opened the cage and the dogs slaughtered and devoured most of the rabbits, who took being bitten, shaken and torn in half quite calmly; two rabbits were rescued for the purpose of continued breeding. In a follow-up demonstration before a well-renowned committee of fellow scientists, Gilderschmuck repeated the experiment using the same two rabbits saved from the previous experiment and their offspring. He penned the same three dogs in the cage again after subjecting them to random electroshocks and water deprivation. The results of the experiment were identical. Gilderschmuck had successfully isolated and bred fear out of a mammal. He won the Nobel Prize for Animal Science that year and was later hired by the U.S. Army.