Goat-Like Things Roaming Ohio Woods?

by Brian A Kennedy | April 20, 2007 at 04:55 am
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Three animals roaming around a town 20 miles east of Cleveland have yet to be positively identified by wildlife experts. Residents have called in reports of bighorn sheep, wild goats, a "half deer, half ram", all sorts of things...
Experts at the Cleveland Metroparks Zoo reviewed the photos and speculated the animals could be tahrs (a wild goat indigenous to Asia) or mouflons (a wild sheep found in Europe and Asia).

 
Officials believe the animals could have been dumped by their owner or escaped from captivity, although nobody has filed a missing-animal report, township police Chief Mark Purchase said.

 
He said there were no plans to trap the animals.

 
"We're not looking to run them out," Purchase said. "But we would like to know what they are."
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Jordan Yerman

As if the world didn't have a hectic enough week... now we've got cryptids roaming the woods?!

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