Posted on 01/30/2005 8:16:42 PM PST by Dan from Michigan
Two-headed lamb born in China
A two-headed lamb has been born in China.
Farmer Han Dianrong, 74, of Yantai city, Shangdong province, said he had never seen anything like it.
The lamb, one of four born to the same ewe, has four eyes and two mouths.
Mr Dianrong says both heads bleat together when the lamb sees people approaching.
The weight of two heads is too much for the lamb's neck so it has to be fed by bottle.
Ewwwweeeee! Strange.
Looks a little sheepish.
Not baaaaaaaaaaaaaad.......
Do they say "Baaa" or . . . "NI!"?
Easy for ewe to say.
Doesn't look Chinese to me.
Mutt 'n Jeff.
Sounds like Michael Moore.
Was Clinton in China recently??? Looking for more campaign dollars, and.....
LAMB-A-LAMB-A-SHANGDONG!
Your thoughts?
Hea Donrong.
Dolly II?
He's not a fool! He's been to school! He's been from Liverpool to Istanbul!
LOL
When I was a little girl living on my grandparents farm, they had in the "cook room chamber" (the attic space over the "cook-room" (kitchen) - in a glass case, stuffed, a tiny baby piglet with two perfect little heads. It had been born on the farm and, as animal mothers often do, the sow had rolled on it and smothered it to death.
I was always fascinated with it. It was a perfect little piglet - just happened to have two heads.
Our new and genetically improved lamb is twice as smart as normal ones.
As a breeder of sheep, you gotta wonder what Han done wrong...
Conjoined Twins
Of the many wonders of nature, none is more phenomenal than the miracle of life. From conception to birth, the complex process of an embryo's development is fantastic. First the ovum is fertilized and begins growth. As the cells continue to grow and split, the genetic information in the DNA provide a 'roadmap' for the evolution of the organism. If a single fertilized ovum splits, the DNA will be the same in both embryos. This will result in maternal, or identical, twins.
Rarely, though it does happen, the process will occur with 'errors'. Meaning that the egg will begin to split, but will stop before the separation is complete. The fetus will continue to develop, yet both 'halves' will develop together, and remain conjoined. This occurs approximately once in ever 40,000 births and only one in every 200,000 are live births.
When these twins are born, they can be conjoined at any number of physical points. The type of classification given to them is named for the point at which they are connected. Here is a list of the scientific classifications of conjoined twins:
1)Craniophagus: joined at the cranium, or head.
2) Pygophagus: attached at the posterior, or bum. Usually twins born in this fashion are like to be successfully separated.
3)Thoracophagus: sharing the upper portion of the torso. When this occurs, usually there is one heart shared between the two; making it impossible to separate the children and save both.
4)Cephalopagus: joined by the upper portion of the of the torso, and involves the cranium as well, with a face on either side of the head.
5)Dicephalus: separate heads and necks, yet one body.
6)Ischiopagus: twins joined at the lower portion of the back. Twins joined in this manner are most likely to be successfully separated, for it is likely no major organs are shared.
7)Omphalagus: connected from the breastbone to the waist, this is one of the more common classifications of conjoined twins.
8)Parapagus: twins of this classification are joined at the side and can extend an unspecified length.
There are two other types of twins that have been classified, but they are far less common:
9)Parasitic Twins: conjoined twins, one significantly smaller, less formed, and dependent on the other.
10)Fetus in fetu: one twin is completely formed, yet the other is partially formed within the body of the other.
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