Systematic Chaos

Sheep gives birth to lamb with human-like face: reports
January 14, 2010
Human-faced lamb ... as the story appears on the Pravda website.

Human-like face ... how the story of the lamb appears on the Pravda website.

A sheep in Turkey has reportedly given birth to a lamb with a human-like face.

Vet Erhan Elibol performed a caesarean section to deliver the calf near the city of Izmir and was horrified to find it looked like a human, Russian and Turkish news sites said.

"I've seen mutations with cows and sheep before. I've seen a one-eyed calf, a two-headed calf, a five-legged calf," the 29-year-old vet was quoted as saying in Russian newspaper website Pravda.


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* Cy, a kitten born with only one eye and no nose, is shown in this photo provided by its owner iin December, 2005.
* A pig with two mouths is seen at a farm in the suburbs of Liaocheng, east China's Shandong province in July, 2006.
* An official shows a two-headed baby crocodile at Samut Prakarn Crocodile Farm on the outskirt of Bangkok Monday in June, 2001.
* Feng Changlin from Fengzhang village, Xiping township in China shows off his piglet with a monkey face in July 2008.
* Liu Shuping, shows off a newly-born piglet with one head, two mouths, two noses and three eyes, for photographers in Xi'an, northwest China in 2007.
* A genetic mutation left a kitten born in Perth in March 2007 with two faces.
* Stumpy, a four-legged duckling at Warrawee Duck Farm, Copythorne, Hampshire, England, pictured in 2007.
* We, a two-headed albino rat snake in January, 2006.
* This Holstein calf, born in December, 2006 in Virginia breathes out of two noses and has two tongues and a single eye socket.
* A frog with eight legs in Quanzhou, in southeast China's Fujian province in 2007.
* A two-headed red slider turtle at Big Al's Aquarium in Pennsylvania, USA.

"But when I saw this youngster I could not believe my eyes."

Photos purportedly of the lamb, which was stillborn, show human-like eyes, nose and mouth.

Vets said the calf's mutation was most likely the result of an excess of vitamin A in the mother's fodder.

Pravda reported that a goat in Zimbabwe gave birth to a similar human-like calf last September. But villagers killed it, believing it was the result of intercourse between the mother goat and a man.