7 Strangest Looking Crossbreeds

Geep

This crossbreed is also known by the name shoat, and it is a hybrid of a sheep and a goat. Even though there is a difference in the number of chromosomes in a goat (60) and a sheep (54), and the offspring usually ends up having a chromosome value that’s intermediate between 54 and 60. The pairing of a sheep and goat usually results in a progeny that is usually born dead, hence they are usually produced by merging the embryos of a goat and a sheep producing something called as a chimera.

Another significant difference between a chimera and a hybrid is that- a chimera has four parents (since they contain cells from two genetic individuals) and a hybrid has only 2. In conformance with the Haldane’s rule, the hybrid male mammals are usually born sterile. As far as the tail of a geep is concerned, it has characteristics of both a sheep and a goat- the tail extending horizontally from the bottom base of the spine.

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