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  • 2017-10-20 (xsd:date)
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  • Was a Half-Human, Half-Lion Hybrid Creature Found in Indonesia? (en)
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  • A series of creepy images purportedly showing a half-human, half-lion hybrid appeared in mid-October 2017, and quickly made the usual rounds on social media: These images were originally posted along with a piece of Indonesian text claiming that this creature was the result of a human mating with a lioness: This is not the first time that we have come across images purportedly showing a half-human, half-animal hybrid. In every case, we found that either the images or the attached claims were faked in one way or another. For instance, a human-dog hybrid was actually a sculpture, a gorilla-human was a doctored image, and a goat-person was actually just a deformed goat. In the case of this particular image, the human-lion is a silicone doll. Social media user Octavia Mulia told Kumparan.com that the photographs had been posted by her sister and that they were originally shared in jest. When the images went viral, Mulia found it necessary to explain that these photographs actually showed a silicone doll and not a real human-lion hybrid (text translated via Google and edited for clarity): These images show a silicon doll that was created by Italian artist Laira Maganuco. These images were featured on her Etsy page in a listing for a baby Licantropo, or baby werewolf, doll. Maganuco also posted images showing the creation of this baby Licantropo to her Facebook page: The images were originally shared with the claim that this creature was the result of a human mating with a lioness. Although scientists are experimenting with various chimeras, it is generally thought that creating human-animal hybrids is virtually impossible: (en)
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