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Erhan Elibol, a vet, performed a caesarean on the animal to take the lamb out, but was horrified to see that the features of the lamb'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.
Vets 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.
Source: Agence France-Presse
The article is additionally fascinating to me. Why? This morn while sitting at the "kitchen table" still sleepy sipping on my first cup of coffee the strange thought of "Dolly the sheep" "popped" into mind [having not thought about this in years]. So I was curious as to how that has developed now over the years and into what it has developed. Not much more than a fleeting thought... then time for a shower, comb the hair etc., and a warm-up as I open the lucky laptop to find this article headlining the Sott page. Hmmm
Bonus thought:
Years ago, I was presented with a copy of - I believe it was a 1988 AMA medical (mal-practice "apology") report - as I remember referring to it. At the time immunization of our little people (kids) was the issue for us then. Of which was eventually not done to any of them.
Regardless the "apology" by the AMA was to the effect that they were admitting that a possible mistake was made (covering tracks) and that the animal RNA (in/of the inoculations) was found or discovered to have somehow linked with the DNA of the Human which seemed to me at that time meant that what was Human before inoculations quite possibly wasn't after inoculations.