Animal hybrids
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Post pictures and discuss about animal hybrids like mules, ligers and whatnot.
mules are based as fuck
Although not a hybrid in the normal sense my favourite one is the Sheep–goat chimera, it is not a tradition hybrid like a mule or the sheep and goat hybrid that just has a goat as one parent and sheep as another.
No this Chimera is created by combing a sheep and goat embyro, like full metal alchemist wizardry.
This creature has four parents.
>The first sheep-goat chimeras were created by researchers at the Institute of Animal Physiology in Cambridge, England by combining sheep embryos with goat embryos. They reported their results in 1984.[2] The successful chimeras were a mosaic of goat and sheep tissue. The parts that grew from the sheep embryo were woolly. Those that grew from the goat embryo were hairy.
>In a chimera, each set of cells (germ line) keeps its own species' identity instead of being intermediate in type between the parental species. Because the chimera contains cells from two different genetic individuals, and each of these arose by normal mating, it has four parents. In contrast, a hybrid has only two parents.
A sheep-goat chimera may be fertile, but it passes on either sheep or goat genes, depending on whether its reproductive organs were formed from the goat embryo or from the sheep embryo (i.e., whichever germ-line formed the ovaries or testes).
The term shoat is sometimes used for sheep-goat hybrids and chimeras, but that term more conventionally means a young piglet.
The most convenient way of identifying a geep is to simply look at the animal's tail. A geep's tail extends horizontally from the base of the spine combining the characteristics of a sheep's and goat's tail.
How such a thing exists is beyond me but it is pretty cool. The Chimera really is two animals in one body.
