Related%20passage for Bava Kamma 109:12
א"ר ירמיה אמר ריש לקיש המרביע שני מינים שבים לוקה מאי טעמא אמר רב אדא בר אהבה משמיה דעולא אתיא למינהו למינהו מיבשה
— R. Habiba said: Since they can breed from one another it might have been thought that they constitute a homogeneous species; we are therefore told [by this that this is not the case]. Samuel said:<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Bek. 8a. ');"><sup>22</sup></span> The [domestic] goose and the wild goose are heterogeneous with each other. Raba son of R. Hanan demurred [saying:] What is the reason? Shall we say because one has a long neck and the other has a short neck? If so, why should a Persian camel and an Arabian camel similarly not be considered heterogeneous with each other, since one has a thick neck and the other a slender neck? — Abaye therefore said: [It is because] one<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' The wild goose. ');"><sup>23</sup></span>
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