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This is the original Latin of Conrad Gesner's brief account of a shonkey (sheep-donkey hybrid) kept at the palace of the king of France (Historia Animalium, Liber I, De Quadrupedibus Viviparis, 1551, p. 19): “Hoc tempore in aula regís Galliarum аnimal nutriri aiunt ab anteriore parte asini posteríore ovis specie. Sed praeter institutum est bígenera hic omnia persequi.” |