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04-09-2007, 01:37 PM
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This little piggy.. um kind of weird!
This little piggy is a little weird.. not for the faint-hearted..
This little piggy's just weird - Unusual Tales - Specials - smh.com.au
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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.
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04-09-2007, 01:44 PM
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 that is very interesting...  soo I wonder if both mouths can eat like normal and swallow too
thanks for sharing
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04-09-2007, 01:53 PM
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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 
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04-09-2007, 02:00 PM
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I think the other two are on the side....
they could have been twins but the embryo only separated at the head...
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04-09-2007, 02:06 PM
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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.
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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
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04-09-2007, 02:08 PM
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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
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04-09-2007, 02:12 PM
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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 
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04-09-2007, 02:12 PM
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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
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04-09-2007, 02:20 PM
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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! 
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04-09-2007, 02:29 PM
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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...
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