Ewe Cad!
The Daily Mail reports on the results of a passionate encounter between a randy cad of a goat and a sheep. They've produced a "geep." (I suppose they had to settle on that since "shoat" was already taken.)
Leaping into the air, she looks like something from the funny farm.
But this curious creature is making scientists do a double-take. Meet Lisa the geep… a cross between a goat and a sheep.
She was born after an unscheduled amorous encounter on the farm of Klaus Exsternbrink, in Schwerte, in northern Germany's Ruhr Valley. One of his young billy goats leapt over a fence and had a passionate liaison with a ewe.
The result a month ago was Lisa - resembling a lamb in shape and stature, but with the colouring and agile back legs of a goat.
Her mother seems unfazed by her unusual offspring and has raised her happily so far.
Now Lisa is booked into a specialist animal medical school in Hanover for genetic tests to determine her hybrid status. "These whims of nature are extremely rare," said the school's Professor Karl-Heinz Waldmann.
They have pictures. It could just be a really, really ugly sheep or maybe it really is a crossbreed. There have been reports of odd crossbreeds before that didn't pan out. But the sheep and the goat are in the same family and subfamily, so this one is a little more likely to be real.
Real ugly, too.
By Uncle Pinky, Sunday, 10 February , 2008 @ 9:30 am
Hah! The Gaius daily vocabulary broadener appears. Naturally, it had to be hidden in a post about the animal uprising, but “shoat” is underused, yet strangely useful. Especially these days.