I used to watch Mr. Cream genes on capt. Kangaroo. Oh wait, that was Mr. GREEN Jeans! Nevermind.Good distraction Carey, that's 25 I should have been working!
Interesting fact: I was always told they used peanut butter to make him talk, but the trainer taught him to talk. Apparently he liked talking so much he wouldn't stop unless the trainer walked away That's why occasionally if you look closely you can see a silver flash of line, they had that under his lip and wiggled it when they wanted him to talk.
I had to look him up to see if I could find a pic of him in colour. In the coloured pix I found I though he looked like a Champagne more than a Palomino, so I was wondering if they had his colour listed wrong. I looked up his pedigree (his real name was Bamboo Harvester) and his dad was listed as Palomino but all of his parents/grand parents etc were Gold Champagne so I think his dad was mis-coloured too as genetically he couldn't be a Palomino as there wasn't any cream genes in the family tree.
Thanks for the family picture Chris, makes my e-mouth water seeing the possibilities.You know I feel silly, because I had heard there was a zebra in the works, and I had assumed it would really be just a texture add on. But I'm so excited that there will be a morph, because zebra's aren't just stripped horses.
Humm I have a Quagga coat that I made for the old MilHorse, I should see if I can convert it overActually they haven't been able to use the old genetic code as they don't have a complete non-degraded sample.
The Rau Quaggas are Zebras that have been selectively breeding back with reduced stripes to resemble Quaggas only in external appearance, but will be genetically different.
Once the Zebra model is out, who ever is doing the coat could do a Quagga coat as an extra option (as it is a subspecies of the Plains Zebra the shape doesn't really change much) which could be fun as they had a pretty good range of striping options.
This is a 5th Gen, 1 year old from the Quagga Project.
Well you may be right but in the article i read and it was extensive it was a South African guy who has worked on this for some time. He found the last Quagga body that had been in a museum (South African I believe) and was given permission to extract DNA from the body parts to use in the splicing with live local zebra DNA and according to the article it was fairy successful though as yet( at time of the article) not a complete strain and was still working on completion. But there was a small herd he had developed on a reserve set aside for the works so he could keep the "fixed" breeds isolated in order to continue manipulating the DNA strings to bring the results closer to the final Quagga breed.Actually they haven't been able to use the old genetic code as they don't have a complete non-degraded sample.
The Rau Quaggas are Zebras that have been selectively breeding back with reduced stripes to resemble Quaggas only in external appearance, but will be genetically different.
Once the Zebra model is out, who ever is doing the coat could do a Quagga coat as an extra option (as it is a subspecies of the Plains Zebra the shape doesn't really change much) which could be fun as they had a pretty good range of striping options.
This is a 5th Gen, 1 year old from the Quagga Project.