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From: djones@megatest.UUCP (Dave Jones)
Newsgroups: talk.bizarre,misc.legal,talk.politics.misc,misc.jobs.misc,sci.bio
Subject: Re: Are Animals Patentable?
Message-ID: <475@goofy.megatest.UUCP>
Date: 22 Apr 88 23:12:37 GMT
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Organization: Megatest Corporation, San Jose, Ca
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in article <2924@saturn.ucsc.edu>, kevin@chromo.ucsc.edu (Kevin McLoughlin) says:
> 
...

> you know what happens when you mate a horse with a donkey.
> A mule is sterile, but it IS a real creature, and it's neither clearly
> a horse nor clearly a donkey; it has characteristics of both.

...

Recently a mule somewhere in the midwest -- sorry I can't remember
where -- foaled for the second time.  Apparently it's not a hoax.
Such an event had been recorded only once previously.  Needless to say,
lot's of people are VERY interested in this particluar animal.  The 
offspring is a funny looking fuzzy thing that looks something like a Shetland.