US man, 81, sentenced to six months for creating giant hybrid sheep for hunting

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7. This is bizarre

I merely stated the fact that these are not passive stuffed animals as the previous poster suggeted. They are a wild species that is banned from import into the US presumably because there is both the risk of bringing in diseases and parasites and the risk they could crossbreed with native big horns. So what he did was illegal even before he started his cloning project. I don't hunt but I am aware that big horn sheep are hunted. The perpetrator was trying to create an oversized big horn look alike that could be shot by the idiots who get off on shooting captive animals so they could brag to their buddies that they got the biggest "big horn". Nobody does DNA tests on mounted trophies.