Mule’s foal fools genetics with “impossible” birth
COLLBRAN — When it reportedly happened in Morocco five years ago, locals feared it signaled the end of the world. In Albania in 1994, it was thought to have unleashed the spawn of the devil on a small village.But on a Grand Mesa ranch, the once-in-a-million, genetically “impossible” occurrence of a mule giving birth has only drawn keen interest from the scientific world. That, and a stream of the locally curious driving up from the small town of Collbran to check out and snap pictures of a frisky, huge-eared, gangly-legged foal.”No one has run away in fear yet,” laughed Laura Amos, the owner of the foal, along with her husband, Larry.The foal is being called a miracle because mules aren’t supposed to give birth.
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