This little piggy.. um kind of weird!

[daemondamian]

This little piggy is a little weird.. not for the faint-hearted..
This little piggy's just weird - Unusual Tales - Specials - smh.com.au

Liu Shuping, a farmer specializing in raising pigs, presents a newly-born piglet with one head, two mouths, two noses and three eyes, for photographers in Xi'an, northwest China on March 6, 2007.

[smartie2000]

that is very interesting... soo I wonder if both mouths can eat like normal and swallow too
thanks for sharing

[Djarum Black]

OMG I am going to have nightmares now! Where were the other eyes! I only saw one It looked sort of like a cyclops piggy.
Poor little piggy

[smartie2000]

I think the other two are on the side....
they could have been twins but the embryo only separated at the head...

[daemondamian]

Originally Posted by Djarum Black

OMG I am going to have nightmares now! Where were the other eyes! I only saw one It looked sort of like a cyclops piggy.
Poor little piggy

Ok well I won't post the article I found on chimpanzees using tools [stick/spear] to hunt, kill and eat bush babies [some kind of small marsupial I think]

Did you ever see the cyclops kitten that was born? It died a short time afterwards. I think I remember that it didn't actually have a nose- just one eye and a mouth.. poor critter

[smartie2000]

no they couldn't have been twins...
could it have been mechanical damage splitting the embryo?

look at skeletons of human twins...theres a two headed one
Developmental Biology 8e Online: Types of Conjoined Twins

It's unfortunate that this phenomenon occurs, especially what both heads thinks separately...and horrible people display them in freak shows for money

[daemondamian]

Originally Posted by smartie2000

no they couldn't have been twins...
could it have been mechanical damage splitting the embryo?

look at skeletons of human twins...theres a two headed one
Developmental Biology 8e Online: Types of Conjoined Twins

It's unfortunate that this phenomenon occurs, especially what both heads thinks separately...and horrible people display them in freak shows for money

and make comedy movies about them starring Matt Damon and that other guy

[smartie2000]

I can also mention that my high school has a preserved kitten with two heads....

It does occur in animals occasionally

My teacher told me in a high school here (was it mine?) a student brought in a calf with two heads for disection once it died

[Djarum Black]

Thats just scarey..

But speaking of horrible people and what they do to animals. I remember a couple years back some mean people were breeding cats to have very short front paws like rabbits. So they would be forced to hop everywhere they moved. I think most died because they could not properly care for themselves or walk.
I can't remember what they were called. Some kind of stupid fluffy name. I thought that was a horror show too!

[smartie2000]

that is sad!

Ornamental goldfishes are sort of like that too when I think of it... I can't belive I keep buying them to replace the dead ones. I have to stop and buy fish that have more natural bodies so they don't always die. In the wild these mutants would already have been culled off...