What do you get when you cross a....

andrew93

Science

01 Nov 11

andrew93

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01 Nov 11

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....goat with a sheep?

The farmer (and media) thought this was a geep:
http://tinyurl.com/43h2cn2

However, genetic testing has confirmed today it is actually a sheep:
http://tinyurl.com/3bzeu8b

Would you say this is an example of random genetic mutation?

twhitehead

Cape Town

Joined: 14 Apr 05
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02 Nov 11

Originally posted by andrew93
What do you get when you cross a....

....goat with a sheep?

My sister keeps a mixed heard of goats and sheep and calls them shoats.
The sheep are mostly the hairy kind not the woolly kind.

According to wikipedia, a geep is a sheep-goat chimera, not a hybrid:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geep
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sheep%E2%80%93goat_hybrid