I learned about it
here. (by the way that website has really loud music and will break your internet)
...In 1980, pictures of a "living unicorn" hit the United States newspapers. To skeptics the animal looked like a goat. But it was no ordinary goat. From the middle of its forehead there did indeed grow a ten inch horn!
Born in California, This goat like creature is an appealing animal, bred of Angora goat stock, so its coat is white and soft. Its name is Lancelot. Lancelot's creators are two naturalists, Morning Glory and her husband Otter G'Zell, who do not hide
the fact that they created Lancelot and that its mother
was a goat. They describe Lancelot as a true medieval - type Unicorn, with a silken plumed tail, who walks the Earth on dainty cloven hooves, and has a golden horn growing from the center of his brow...
...They believe so strongly that what they have created is something special that they want to share their unicorns with the world. "A live unicorn could be an international ambassador of good will," they say, "since the unicorn. is a cross-cultural symbol. Lancelot is also the ultimate symbol for endangered species that have made a comeback. "Controversy and outrage developed when Lancelot was put on display with Ringling Brothers and Barnum and Bailey Circus in 1980. John Kullberg, then president of the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, called Lancelot a goat which had been subjected to an inhumane implant of a bull's horn...
...The anger died down. The circus retained its right to show Lancelot as a feature attraction. Some people still said, "It's just a goat." They thought the public was being deceived. But, "As far as we're concerned," said Debbie Linde, a circus spokesperson, "It's a unicorn. A unicorn is an animal with one horn..."
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