AOL News decided to do a bit more on the Chinese reports of a dog being born to a sheep, and published an updated article, “Can a Sheep and a Dog Give Life to a New Kind of Sheep-Dog? Probably Not.”
They interviewed me, and here’s how they came out:
“This is a rural urban legend,” Loren Coleman, owner of the International Cryptozoology Museum in Portland, Maine, told AOL News in an email.
“The Chinese sheep herder never saw a birth take place. He merely found the two animals near each other.
“No way is this a possibility, biologically, but it does make for a merely humorous slow news day story,” Coleman said.
There are, indeed, examples of hybrids resulting from some unusual mating practices of the animal kingdom….
But in the case of China’s sheep-dog miracle, “It looks like a normal, fuzzy-furred young canid that was found born near sheep,” cryptozoologist Coleman said.
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