Posted on 01/13/2010 9:22:27 AM PST by OldCorps
A sheep gave birth to a dead lamb with a human-like face. The calf was born in a village not far from the city of Izmir, Turkey.
Erhan Elibol, a vet, performed Cesarean section on the animal to take the calf out, but was horrified to see that the features of the calf’s snout bore a striking resemblance to a human face.
“I’ve seen mutations with cows and sheep before. I’ve seen a one-eyed calf, a two-headed calf, a five-legged calf. But when I saw this youngster I could not believe my eyes. His mother could not deliver him so I had to help the animal,” the 29-year-old veterinary said.
The lamb’s head had human features on – the eyes, the nose and the mouth – only the ears were those of a sheep.
Veterinaries said that the rare mutation most likely occurred as a result of improper mutation since the fodder for the lamb’s mother was abundant with vitamin A, CNNTurk.com reports.
A goat from Zimbabwe gave birth to a similar youngster in September 2009. The mutant baby born with a human-like head stayed alive for several hours until the frightened village residents killed him.
The governor of the province where the ugly goat was born said that the little goat was the fruit of unnatural relationship between the female goat and a man.
"This incident is very shocking. It is my first time to see such an evil thing. It is really embarrassing," he reportedly said. "The head belongs to a man while the body is that of a goat. This is evident that an adult human being was responsible. Evil powers caused this person to lose self control. We often hear cases of human beings who commit bestiality but this is the first time for such an act to produce a product with human features," he added.
The mutant creature was hairless. Local residents said that even dogs were afraid to approach the bizarre animal.
The locals burnt the body of the little goat, and biologists had no chance to study the rare mutation.
Amazing resemblance to Dick Van Dyke.
I’m thinkin’: HOAX..................
If Osama’s been to Turkey lately or that ewe’s strayed into Pakistan, this could mean a shotgun wedding is in order.
Read the story.
It is talking about a SHEEP that gave birth to a LAMB in Turkey but also mentions a GOAT that gave birth to a KID in Zimbabwe with the same anamoly.
If the pic shown in this thread is a real one, that is no monkey face....it is a human one.
Evil. What on earth is this world coming to.
That is very disturbing.
Remeber Baaaa means NO!
I laughed so hard I thought, I’d go into cardiac arrest.
Thank you.
Eeeeewwwww....;-)
As long as I live I will NEVER forget this one baby I saw in the grocery store one time. I swear it was like those photoshops you see nowadays with the baby and the parent’s head swapped - only it was the baby with a head/face that looked like an adult male... and his nose - I don’t think I’ve ever seen a bigger one - even on an adult! It was like the Seinfeld episode with the ugly baby — I wouldn’t have known what to say to the mother honestly. I hope for the child’s sake whatever the condition that caused him to appear that way was correctable — there didn’t appear to be anything wrong with him though - except looking like he was a 30-year-old with a baby’s body! Strange...
Rofl - I had totally forgotten about him!
[Even stranger, I had a picture of Islamic rage-boy in my head when I read your post! Don’t know why it’s just the first thing that came to mind...]
Thanks for posting that info. It definitely sounds like the problem to me - especially given the fact that the vet talks about having to surgically intervene in the birth.
I agree with some that it looks a wee but more human than monkey, but then I also think Ahmadinejad looks more chimp than human! ;)
Perhaps the trigger for producing a sheep's head is a mutation away from producing a human-shaped head.
Ha! Perfect! Exactly what I thought at first glance.
Ewes yo Daddy?
It wasn’t me. I didn’t do it. The sun was in my eyes. My shrink put me on a depressant pill yesterday and I was up all night wired. I forgot. The dog ate my homework. I ran out of gas. I got a flat tire. I..uh..didn’t have change for cab fare. I left my tux at the cleaners! I had to be rushed to hospital for coffee burns on my lap! I locked my keys in the car! An old friend came in from out of town! Someone stole my car! There was an earthquake . . .a terrible flood! IT WASN’T MY FAULT!!!! I SWEAR TO GOD!!!
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