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The Unibull Experiment
The Unibull was one of W. Franklin Dove's more well known experiments. In this experiment he theorized that the horns didn't grow from the skull but grew into the skull over time from horn buds. In order to test his hypothesis he conducted his experiments on many animals like sheep, cows, and goats, as well as the famous Unibull.

W. Franklin Dove acknowledged that horns don't actually grow from the skull, but instead, they are actually unattached bits of tissue that eventually root their way into the skull. He also did more in-depth research about horns and learned that people before him have been creating "unicorn" animals. For example, some sheep were made into single horned sheep by branding two or three month old lambs on their horn buds and then treating them with a mixture of oil and soot while they were healing so that the horns grew from the middle of the skull. So, Dove reasoned that the positioning of the horns is quite open to natural or artificial variation which would mean that "unicorns" were not a total contradiction of the laws of nature. To test his theory, he took a day old calf and and surgically removed it's horn buds and cut them so that they would fit together, and then implanted them in the center of the calf's head. The circular horn buds were trimmed flat at their point of contact so as to provide a larger fusion surface. It was expected that the two horn buds would fuse together to form one large horn solidly attached to the skull and located somewhat between the eyes to mimic the horn of the unicorn. The experiment was proven to be successful as the bull grew the horn buds fused together and started to formed a single, straight horn about a foot in length. The horn functioned very well for the bull, perhaps even better than the normal horns the bulls have. The bull eventually became the leader of it's herd and was rarely challenged. An interesting side effect of this horn was the bulls abnormally docile personality. He also created "unicorns" out of goats as well as cows. Besides making "unicorns" he also made tri-horned animals.