dawkins_akbar Posted October 23, 2012 Share Posted October 23, 2012 Hi guys, I just wanted to ask a genetics question purely out of scientific curiosity. I bumped into a short video clip online showing what looked vaguely like a dead "Goat with a human face and 8 legs". Google it if you want to check it out. I won't post it here because it is a little freaky. Anyway, my question is: is this likely to be the result of a mutation or sex with a goat? I didn't think humans could interbreed with goats. LOL! OK, it wasn't exactly a successful breeding, but I didn't even think it would reach that stage. Cheers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ringer Posted October 24, 2012 Share Posted October 24, 2012 I haven't looked at the video, but it's almost certainly a fake. The only way a goat could possibly survive with 8 legs is to be a conjoined twin, otherwise it would need mutations to add vertebrae, ribs, etc. The probability of that is virtually nothing. A goat human hybrid is impossible, they are not nearly closely related enough to interbreed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnStu Posted October 24, 2012 Share Posted October 24, 2012 Hi guys, I just wanted to ask a genetics question purely out of scientific curiosity. I bumped into a short video clip online showing what looked vaguely like a dead "Goat with a human face and 8 legs". Google it if you want to check it out. I won't post it here because it is a little freaky. Anyway, my question is: is this likely to be the result of a mutation or sex with a goat? I didn't think humans could interbreed with goats. LOL! OK, it wasn't exactly a successful breeding, but I didn't even think it would reach that stage. Cheers Genetically possible on this planet? I would say definately nope. Frankensteinly possible though if you know what I mean Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dawkins_akbar Posted October 24, 2012 Author Share Posted October 24, 2012 Thanks for the replies. Having thought about it a bit more, I think it was misleading/sensational for the uploader of the original video to give the video such a title. The goat doesn't have a human face. It looks like a mutated goat face. As for the genetics, I looked up the number of chromosomes. Goats have 60, whereas humans have 46. So it would be impossible for them to match up during fertilisation. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
profJoe Posted November 22, 2012 Share Posted November 22, 2012 i am sure this could be a photoshop. An incident happened few weeks ago when a woman was reported to give birth to a monkey in a nearby hospital. The only answer I have to this is metaphysical not genetically proven. What do you have to say about this? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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