Sheep–goat hybrid - Wikipedia
A sheep–goat hybrid (called a geep in popular media or sometimes a shoat[note 1]) is a hybrid between a sheep and a goat. [1] While sheep and goats are similar and can be mated, they belong to different genera in the subfamily Caprinae of the family Bovidae. Sheep belong to the genus Ovis and have 54 chromosomes, while goats belong to the ...
Spring Rose the Geep: a Goat-Sheep Hybrid - Goat Journal
2022年6月22日 · A geep — goat-sheep hybrid — is so rare that one hits the news about once every 10 years. Most suspected geeps, once tested, prove to be just goats or sheep with odd features. But Spring Rose is alive and well in Kentucky. Catherine Bell …
Geep: Rare 'goat-sheep' born on Irish farm - BBC News
2014年4月4日 · A rare, hybrid animal that is part goat and part sheep has been born on a farm in the Republic of Ireland. The animal, referred to as a geep, was born about two weeks ago on Paddy Murphy's...
What do you get when you cross sheep & goat ? BBC News
Subscribe to BBC News / bbcnews Geep: A rare, hybrid animal that is part goat and part sheep has been born on a farm in the Republic of Ireland. The animal was born about two weeks ago on...
Meet Butterfly The Geep, An Extremely Rare Goat-Sheep Hybrid …
2014年8月1日 · The male goat and female sheep created Butterfly, who has a goat face and feet, but is covered in wool. Motola said her three sons discovered the geep on Sunday. Her youngest son said "she looks like a butterfly," because of all the different colors on his coat.
Geep: Behold the Sheep-Goat Chimera - Mental Floss
2008年5月14日 · Geeps are created in the lab by effectively mashing up fertilized embryos from sheep and goats, then implanting the result into sheep or goat mothers. The resulting animal isn't a hybrid, it's a...
Geeps And Other Adorable Animal Hybrids - YouTube
This week in the Republic of Ireland, BBC revealed an interesting animal hybrid. A sheep and a goat bred together to create a baby geep! Join Trace as he discusses this new animal, and lists...
Science: It's a Geep - TIME
1984年2月27日 · The animal is a crossbreed of two entirely different species, a goat and a sheep. Inevitably, it has been dubbed a geep. Now 18 months old and thriving, the geep was produced by the latest...
In Search of the Geep - The New York Times
2009年11月16日 · A geep is not actually an offspring of the sexual mating of one sheep and one goat; rather, it is an animal resulting from the physical mingling of very early embryos of the two species and...
The strange sheep that baffled scientists - BBC
2017年5月17日 · A rare mutant sheep with straight, silky wool is helping unravel the mysteries of human hair. When a farmer in Otago, New Zealand, saw a bizarre-looking lamb in his flock, he first assumed a wild...