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Toast of Botswana
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The "Toast of Botswana" is the name of an unusual case of a sheep-goat hybrid that was reported by veterinarians in Botswana in 2000. The animal was born naturally from the mating of a female goat with a male sheep that were kept together. Goats have 60 chromosomes while sheep have 54 chromosomes and they belong to separate genera with goats in the genus Capra and sheep in the genus Ovis. Sheep-goat hybrids generally die as embryos. This hybrid had 57 chromosomes, intermediate between sheep (54) and goats (60) and was intermediate between the two parent species in type. It had a coarse outer coat, a woolly inner coat, long goat-like legs and a heavy sheep-like body. Although infertile, the hybrid had a very active libido, mounting both ewes and nannies even when they were not in heat. This earned the hybrid the name Bemya or rapist. He was castrated when he was 10 months old because he was becoming a nuisance. |
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