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  • 2021-04-13 (xsd:date)
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  • The video shows double-muscled sheep breed from Belgium (en)
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  • A video has been viewed thousands of times in multiple posts on Facebook and YouTube alongside a claim that it shows a clone of a goat-and-pig hybrid animal called Khanzarof. The claim is false. The video actually shows Beltex sheep, a breed which originated in Belgium. The 27-second clip was posted here on Facebook on May 30, 2019, and has been viewed more than 2,100 times since. The Indonesian-language post translates to English as: The result of cloning Russian and American veterinarians are successful in creating a new animal named Khanzarof Mixed goat + pig produce animal named * KHANZAROF * DECLARED HARAM FOR MUSLIM MEN AND WOMEN scary .... Screenshot of misleading post, taken on April 11, 2021 The same video alongside similar claims have been watched more than 4,800 times after appearing on Facebook here , here , here and here ; as well as on YouTube here and here . The video has been viewed more than 8,400 times along with a similar claim in English that it shows a pig-sheep hybrid animal, such as here , here and here . However, the claim is false. Two banners can be seen in the first three seconds of the misleading video that reads: Jewitt Beltex and Beltex Crackers Female Sale on December 1, 2017. Keyword searches found a video showing sheeps that look similar to those in the misleading clip on the Facebook page of Jewitt & Sunnybank Pedigree Livestock here , dated July 11, 2020. The post reads in part: Beltex Shearling Gimmers For Sale Choice of 17 / Prices from £400 / Grass Fed & Naturally done / Tremendous breeding lines / Dam cost up to 5000gns. Jewitt & Sunnybank Pedigree Livestock is a Beltex and Blue Texel sheep breeder based in the UK. Beltex is a breed of sheep from Belgium that was originally developed as the Belgian Texel, by selecting and breeding for the traits found in double-muscled sheep. Below is screenshot comparison between clip in the misleading post (L) and Jewitt & Sunnybank Pedigree Livestock’s video (R): Screenshot comparison between clip in the misleading post (L) and Jewitt & Sunnybank Pedigree Livestock’s video (R) Harrison & Hetherington , a UK-based livestock auctioneer, published a 52-page magazine for the Beltex crackers female sale held on December 1, 2017, at Carlisle City , England. The information seen in the magazine corresponds with the banners seen in the misleading clip. The Indonesian Ulema Council (MUI) published this article, written by Henny Nuraini , a lecturer at Bogor Agricultural University in Indonesia, in June 2020, debunking the claim. After further investigation, it appears that the animals [in the misleading video] are Beltex sheep from Belgium, she wrote. This type of sheep is the result of a cross breed between local Belgian sheep and Texel sheep. This sheep was developed by a Belgian breeder who was assisted by Professor Roger Hanset from the University of Liege, a researcher who also developed the Belgian Blue cattle. AFP previously published a fact-check report that a video that purportedly shows a pig-cow cross breed is actually a video of a Belgian Blue bull . Other debunks of false claims about a pig-cow cross breed can be read here and a pig-sheep cross breed here . (en)
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