HMS Bellerophon (1786) Admiralty at the time, John Montagu, 4th Earl of Sandwich, had apparently selected the name from Lemprière's Classical Dictionary, which he kept on his desk. The recently ordered 74-gun ship was thereafter to be named after the Greek warrior Bellerophon who rode the winged horse Pegasus and slew the monster Chimera. The pronunciation proved difficult for the ordinary sailors of the period, and she was widely known by variants, most commonly "Billy Ruffian" or "Billy Ruff'n", although "Belly Ruff One" appears in a satirical 1810 print by Thomas Rowlandson, and "Bellyruffron" in the novel "Poor Jack" by Frederick Marryat. She
Sheep–goat chimera from the sheep embryo (i.e., whichever germ-line formed the ovaries or testes). The term "shoat" is sometimes used for sheepgoat hybrids and chimeras, but that term more conventionally means a young piglet. The most convenient way of identifying a geep is to simply look at the animal's tail. A geep's tail extends horizontally from the base of the spine combining the characteristics of a sheep's and goat's tail. Sheep–goat chimera A sheep–goat chimera (sometimes called a geep in popular media) is a chimera produced by combining the embryos of a goat and a sheep; the resulting animal has cells of