Here Today... Gone To Hell!

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A Chinese farmer has told of his shock after one of his sows gave birth to a piglet with two mouths and three eyes.

The animal was among a litter of eight born at Liu Dingsheng's farm in Chongren County in Zhejiang province.

A local vet said that the extra facial features could have been caused by a genetic mutation or feed pollution.

"We were shocked to see such a weird looking creature. I don't really know what to do with it," Dingsheng told People's Daily.

http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/odd/a151725/mutant-piglet-has-two-mouths-three-eyes.html

siamese or chinese.

still smells of dioxin

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irish_pork_crisis_of_2008

He's cute in his own special way.

Two mouths, two tongues?


Lucky Miss Piggy!

are you sure it's A he?

I think they should just keep it as a special little pet, and just let nature take it's course, why not as long as it remains healthy :)

The sad part is that this mutation was probably caused by something they are feeding them or some other kind of pollution.

Don't eat pork from China, I'd say.

I'll bring the apple sauce 8)

His mother obviously drank a lot during her pregnancy......Was this the only deformed pig of the litter?

On the second thought, maybe it's not necessarily connected to pollution.
The double-headed eagle has been quite common for centuries.



"Diprosopus (Greek διπρόσωπος, "two-faced", from δι-, di-, "two" and πρόσωπο[ν], pr?sopo[n] [neuter], "face", "person"; with Latin ending), also known as craniofacial duplication (cranio- from Greek κρανίο, "skull", the other parts Latin), is an extremely rare congenital disorder whereby part or all of the face is duplicated on the head.

Although classically considered conjoined twinning (which it resembles), this anomaly is not normally due to the fusion or incomplete separation of two embryos. It is the result of a protein called sonic hedgehog homolog (SHH). (The unlikely-sounding name of this protein was inspired by the Sonic the Hedgehog videogame character[3] and is part of an idiosyncratic naming tradition in molecular biology research that some have criticized as frivolous.[4][5])

The SHH protein and its corresponding gene have been found to play an important role in signaling craniofacial patterning during embryonic development. Among other things, the SHH protein governs the width of facial features. In excess it leads to widening of facial features and to duplication of facial structures.[6] The greater the widening, the more of the structures are duplicated, often in a mirror image form. This has been demonstrated in the laboratory by introducing pellets of the SHH protein into chicken embryos, resulting in chickens with duplicate beaks. Insufficient amounts of that protein lead to opposite conditions such as cyclopia where facial features are insufficiently developed.[7]

Healthy brain development is also dependent on the signaling function of the SHH protein.[8] During embryonic development, the SHH protein directs embryonic cells to organize in specific areas that later become specialized neural tissues, thus controlling the size and shape of brain structures."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diprosopus

maybe you could give Sincut a call and find out? :rofl: ;)

Aww how cute :)

Wanna run up the stairs with me and see which one gives up first?

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Your heart or your knees?