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The woolly mystery known as the sheep pig
Posted by Lev/Christopher on April 20, 2010 at 11:58pm
in Science & Technology
A "sheep pig" may sound like a fanciful creation — "Charlotte's Web"
meets the late Nickelodeon "CatDog" cartoon, perhaps. But there
evidently is such a thing on Planet Earth, and as the name suggests,
it's a traditional curly-tailed pig covered in a sheep-like wool coat.
(The opposite pairing, an overgrown sheep who eats anything in its path
and ferrets out truffles, is an experiment that natural selection is
apparently not yet up to tackling.) And no, we're not trying to pull
the wool over your eyes. (Sorry — it had to be done).
The animal in question, native to Austria and Hungary, is known in
zoological circles as a Mangalitsa. The Tropical Wings Zoo in Essex,
England, just took in three of the rare creatures — a male and two
females — as part of an education and breeding program. You can watch a
news report on the animals below:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ynews/20100420/ts_ynews/ynews_ts1710;_ylt=A...
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