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An old report, published in the March 1727 issue of the French periodical Suite de la Clef, ou Journal historique sur les matières du temps (pp. 229-230), describes a conjoined twin that was allegedly the hybrid of a hare and a sheep. It reads as follows: “M. Chanvalon, residing in Lappion, in the Diocese of Laon, two leagues from Notre Dame de Liesse, writes me to say that in mid-January, a ewe in that village yeaned a stillborn monster having the bodies of
The German chronicler Johann Christoph Becmann (Historische Beschreibung der Chur und Mark Brandenburg, 1751, vol. 1, p. 883) stated that a lamb was born with the ears of a hare at Bernau in Germany in 1666.
In addition, the early medical journal Miscellanea Curiosa (1677, vol. 8, supplement, Observation XLVI, p. 209) mentions a very early record (1174 A.D.) of a lamb being born with the ears of a hare.
By the same author: Handbook of Avian Hybrids of the World, Oxford University Press (2006).