Internet, meet Peanut: the unicorn sheep.

Peanut has one single solitary horn, which sticks straight up out of her head.

Not quite a unicorn but a ewe-nicorn, if you like.

She does look a bit like a peanut doesn’t she [SWNS]

The 16-year-old Jacob sheep is one of the eldest in the country according to The Jacob Sheep Society, and lives at the Hartcliffe Community Farm in Bristol, where she has become something of a local celebrity.

Peanut: one horn, no problem [SWNS]

Peanut hasn’t always rocked the unicorn look but an accident with some school children - who playfully tugged at one of her horns till it snapped off - left her with no choice.

Farm founder Rocky Pearce, 76, explained, “We have school visits now and then and one time the children though they’d help us get her back in the van.

“But unfortunately, they grabbed her by the horn rather than the body and her horn snapped off in their hands.



"Luckily she wasn’t in pain. She’s definitely a character in the park and she gets a lot of love.”

Peanut and pal [SWNS]

Rather than an elderly sheep, the mythical unicorn is traditionally depicted as a horse with a magical horn growing out of its forehead.

However, science has shown that there may once have been a furry Siberian rhinoceros with a single horn that could have inspired the legend.

Quite why mankind is so invested in the existence of a single-horned animal has yet to be satisfactorily explained.