Talk:Sheep-goat chimera

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The versions of the article from before June 3. 2005 are erroneous, and also inconsistent with the article on 'Chimeras'. The versions in question confuse the terms 'chimera' and 'hybrid', and the Botswanan 'geep' with 57 chromosomes is actually not a geep, but a regular sheep-goat hybrid. I think I found the Internet source the previous versions were based on, and it seems to confuse the Geep with a sheep-goat hybrid, as well. Unfortunately I don't have any more useful information to add to this article; I don't know much about geep, except that they are not what the previous article stated.

1 Geep - question
2 Internal link
3 Pronunciation
4 Photo
5 Health
6 Merge

[edit] Geep - question

I once heard that the geep fetus, once created in vitro, can be implanted in either the she-goat or the ewe. And that which of those you choose determines the eventual mating behaviour of the creature once born. Those that were born by a she-goat grow up fancying goats, and those from a ewe, sheep. However, I haven't been able to find any corroboration on the Net or in the scientific literature for this, so don't quote me on it in your ph.D thesis. Tim Budds (timbudds@acasa.ro)

Somewhere on the net, there's mention that hinnies can be distinguished from mules because in a pasture containing both donkeys and horses, a hinny will prefer the company of donkeys, like its mother; and a mule will prefer the company of horses, like its mother. Perhaps a question of nurture rather nature, socializing and breeding with the species the animal was raised by. -- Lisasmall 13:42, 2 April 2006 (UTC)

Normal sheep and goats kept in the same pasture sometime show the same behavior--orphaned lambs are sometimes given to nanny goats (of the dairy goat variety). Once grown, they're the sheep most likely to mate with male goats. (Male goats, of course, will mate with anything...)

[edit] Internal link

Added Ovid hybrid link though such article does not yet exist, though there are pages for Felid hybrid, Canid hybrid, Ursid hybrid. (and the as-I-write non-existent Suid hybrid, though surely domestic swine have interbred with wild species at some point). Link is needed to provide larger context for Geep article. -- Lisasmall 13:42, 2 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Pronunciation

How do you pronounce geep? /giːp/ or /ʤiːp/? (actually, since it is a neologism, how did the creators of the animal pronounce it?) rado 11:12, 8 June 2006 (UTC)

Presumably /giːp/, because (a) the g comes from goat, where it's /g/; and (b) /ʤ/ would create an unnecessary homophone of Jeep. Neon Merlin 02:35, 13 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Photo

I've sent a GFDL request to the prof credited with the linked photo. If he says yes, we'll have a web-resolution illustration. Neon Merlin 02:35, 13 September 2006 (UTC)

OK, got the photo. Neon Merlin 00:51, 14 September 2006 (UTC)

It says to use it only if its not referred to as a Geep, which it is in the article. 12.207.127.76 03:57, 9 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Health

Was he healthy? He looks oddly frankestein in the photo... And sad.. There's no poto of the goat-sheep hybrid, so I don't know it that frankenstein-color look is only in this or in the others... (It looks to me like a head and limbs of an animal in another) 200.230.213.152 04:16, 31 October 2006 (UTC)