Queens Just Got a Little More Cute

cute08.jpgOpen up and say "awwww," the Queens Zoo has two new chocolate brown babydoll lambs! The impossibly adorable duo now reside in Flushing Meadows-Corona Park, bringing the lamb population there to 18. The Queens Gazette reports that babydolls are the "oldest known purebred sheep in the world...an example of a breed that used to be very popular before the industrialization of livestock production caused it to become rare." No word on the twosomes names yet, but you can read more about the breed here.

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Roast leg of lamb is one of my favorite meals.

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