Which is the first known animal of a human-engineered hybrid of two species?

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Scientists have identified the first human-bred hybrid animal as ‘Kunga’ by using DNA sequencing. The research shows domestic horses were introduced in the southern Caucasus and Anatolia during the Bronze Age.
By the mid to late third millennium BCE, domestic horses were introduced from neighboring mountain regions into Mesopotamia (modern Iraq and northeast Syria).

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Kunga Scientists have identified the first human-bred hybrid animal as ‘Kunga’ by using DNA sequencing. The research shows domestic horses were introduced in the southern Caucasus and Anatolia during the Bronze Age.
By the mid to late third millennium BCE, domestic horses were introduced from neighboring mountain regions into Mesopotamia (modern Iraq and northeast Syria).

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