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WELLINGTON, JAN. 18. New Zealanders are feeling sheepish over a new postage stamp that shows two lambs with their mother who sports a pair of powerful, curled horns — which are found only on a ram. Merino ewes, the type depicted on the stamp, have tiny stumps of horn if any at all, a lawmaker from the Opposition National Party, Katherine Rich, said today. ``The stamp is an absolute impossibility,'' she said, noting that the animal in question had a ram's horns — but lacked any trace of other vital telltale anatomy found on a male sheep. The subject is not being taken lightly in New Zealand, noted for its beautiful meadows full of gambolling lambs and the fact that its 40 million sheep vastly outnumber its human population of four million. ``Given that the sheep is a major icon of this country, you'd think they would have at least passed the stamp design by someone with knowledge of agriculture,'' Ms. Rich said. She demanded that the stamps be withdrawn. Robert Gibson, a farmer who has 7,000 merino sheep and who is chairman of the New Zealand Stud Merino Breeders' Society, agreed. ``You'd never get an ewe looking like that,'' he said. The stamp's designer, the artist Samuel Sakaria, admitted having taken some artistic licence. ``The males have the curly horns,'' he said. ``I thought just to add a bit of a dynamic I'd just add in the male equivalent as opposed to the female.'' A spokesman for New Zealand Post said that more than a million of the stamps — worth 45 New Zealand cents — had been already released. He said the error was unlikely to affect its value for collectors. — AP
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