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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 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.
Veterinarians said that the rare mutation most likely occurred as a result of improper nutrition 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: Sheep gives birth to human-faced lamb | The Courier-Mail

The villagers shouldn't of destroyed it! Now scientists can't study the animal.. very annoying. Your thoughts? :p

It could have grown and talked to us and taken us to it's demon.....
 
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Saw that recently, may have been posted here but I don't remember.

I'm quite skeptical at any rate.
 

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That's crazy!!!

And disgusting :S

They really should have kept the alive one for studying... I highly doubt it was the product of bestiality, either. If it was, I don't reckon it would have survived after birth. There had to be some other explanation for its disfigurement.

Maybe one day we'll have English speaking sheep? XD
 

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Just wtf is going on with it lol, mostly authenticity yeh
Ahh I see. :p

That's crazy!!!

And disgusting :S

They really should have kept the alive one for studying... I highly doubt it was the product of bestiality, either. If it was, I don't reckon it would have survived after birth. There had to be some other explanation for its disfigurement.

Maybe one day we'll have English speaking sheep? XD
I agree! Well they think it's just malnutrition or a mutation, I don't think man mated with sheep....reproductive isolation! The embryo would surely fail to develop.

When I first heard of this I automatically thought of the animals which are growing human organs:

Animals Grow Human Organs for Science

Particularly worrisome to some scientists are the nightmare scenarios that could arise from the mixing of brain cells: What if a human mind somehow got trapped inside a sheep's head?
 

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I agree! Well they think it's just malnutrition or a mutation, I don't think man mated with sheep....reproductive isolation! The embryo would surely fail to develop.

When I first heard of this I automatically thought of the animals which are growing human organs:

Animals Grow Human Organs for Science
I feel nauseous .

I'm not a vegan or anything, lol, but honestly why can't people just leave the poor animals alone?

This type of research is sickening.
 

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Can anyone good at biology tell me whether its possible for human semen to fertilise a sheep's egg, let alone create a fetus?
Don't think so. There are many barriers that would prevent fertilisation, such as anatomical differences, and the gametes are likely to not survive in the reproductive tract of the other species.

I feel nauseous .

I'm not a vegan or anything, lol, but honestly why can't people just leave the poor animals alone?

This type of research is sickening.
I couldn't agree with you more... milking genetically engineers cows' blood for antigens... featherless chickens... argh. It's difficult to tell where to draw the line for these types of things.
 

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Due to "Gametic Isolation" the sperm of one species may not be able to fertilise the eggs of another species. Many mechanisms can produce this isolation. For instance, sperm may not be able to survive in the reproductive tract of females of the other species, or biochemical mechanisms may prevent the sperm from penetrating the membrane surrounding the other species' eggs.

There are other preventative measures that mother nature uses to stop extreme hybrids from occurring.
 

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did it taste good anyway?
They didn't eat it... they burnt the bodies I believe. o_O

Due to "Gametic Isolation" the sperm of one species may not be able to fertilise the eggs of another species. Many mechanisms can produce this isolation. For instance, sperm may not be able to survive in the reproductive tract of females of the other species, or biochemical mechanisms may prevent the sperm from penetrating the membrane surrounding the other species' eggs.

There are other preventative measures that mother nature uses to stop extreme hybrids from occurring.
Yep, which is why I don't think it's a hybrid... most likely some sort of deformity.
 

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