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Animal Deformities

It could have seeped through the Panama Canal or one of the myriad undersea tunnels linking the Pacific to the Atlantic. Their location known only to Fish Farmers.
 
Saw a 5 legged cow near the Bowder Stone in the lakes a few years back,
it had 3 front legs and I had about 3 takes to make sure what I was looking at,
it seemed happy enough.
 
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Woman fishing in New York state reels in trout with two mouths

A woman fishing in upstate New York snapped photos when she reeled in a trout with a unique feature -- two mouths.

Debbie Geddes said she was fishing on Lake Champlain with her husband when she reeled in the two-mouthed fish.

Photos of the unusual trout went viral after a friend, Adam Facteau, posted them to Facebook.

"I've had messages from all over the world, like people asking about this fish and it seems like everybody's got an opinion on what is the cause of this fish having two mouths," Facteau told WPTZ-TV.

Theories from people who viewed the photos include a genetic mutation and an injury from a swallowed hook.

Geddes said she released the fish back into the water after taking the photos.

SOURCE: https://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2019/0...reels-in-trout-with-two-mouths/4711566489817/
 
Just posted this is the 'Day of the animals' thread (feel free to remove).

No biggie / no problem ...

How bizarre. It looks as though it grew into adulthood without too much trouble.

I would have liked to know more about its anatomy - for example, whether both mouths connected to a single gullet.
But they threw it back ...

Now Champ will chomp it, and we'll never know how it was structured. :roll:
 
Just posted this is the 'Day of the animals' thread (feel free to remove). How bizarre. It looks as though it grew into adulthood without too much trouble.
Not as deformed as your example but when I was a Morrisons fish monger, we got quite a few weird looking trout delivered .. mass farming inbreeding as I was told by my boss.
 
No animals with wheels (alas):

No animal uses wheels to move about, presumably because suitable expanses of pathways of flat, even ground are for the most part unavailable in nature [39] and perhaps also because structures like wheels that rotate without limit and in a consistent direction on an axle are difficult to build in the context of a developing animal body. Some whole organisms form almost perfect spheres or wheels by rolling up so that the front and hind ends touch, enabling the animal to roll away from enemies [40]. Examples include some terrestrial caterpillars, cockroaches, isopods, millipedes and spiders, and marine stomatopod larvae and fossil trilobites [36,41]. Active rolling is achieved in some spiders [40] and in scarabaeid dung bettles. The latter roll dung balls and may even climb onto and ride these balls to prevent overheating [42,43]. Rotation is known in flagella and, in modified form, in the screw-like leg joints of curculionid weevils [44], but none of these cases amounts to wheeled transport.

https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10.1098/rsfs.2015.0028
 
No animals with wheels (alas):

No animal uses wheels to move about, presumably because suitable expanses of pathways of flat, even ground are for the most part unavailable in nature [39] and perhaps also because structures like wheels that rotate without limit and in a consistent direction on an axle are difficult to build in the context of a developing animal body. Some whole organisms form almost perfect spheres or wheels by rolling up so that the front and hind ends touch, enabling the animal to roll away from enemies [40]. Examples include some terrestrial caterpillars, cockroaches, isopods, millipedes and spiders, and marine stomatopod larvae and fossil trilobites [36,41]. Active rolling is achieved in some spiders [40] and in scarabaeid dung bettles. The latter roll dung balls and may even climb onto and ride these balls to prevent overheating [42,43]. Rotation is known in flagella and, in modified form, in the screw-like leg joints of curculionid weevils [44], but none of these cases amounts to wheeled transport.

https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10.1098/rsfs.2015.0028
Not actually a wheel, but the nearest thing to a wheel bearing occurring in nature is the rotating hooks found on the tentacles of a really large squid.
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This is a new one on me - a dog with a single ear atop its head ...

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'Unicorn' puppy has one ear in the middle of her head

A golden retriever puppy in Michigan has been branded a "unicorn" due to an unusual facial feature: having only a single ear, positioned on the top of her head.

Rae - "ear" spelled backward - was brought to Family Friends Veterinary Hospital in Grand Rapids as a newborn because she required emergency surgery.

The now-12-week-old puppy is now in the care of Brianna Aardema, who was one of the people caring for Rae at the hospital. ...

Rae was dubbed a "unicorn" by hospital staff due to her unusual ear, and she soon found viral fame thanks to a video ...

Aardema said there is no name for Rae's condition. She said the dog's existing ear was originally on the side of her head, but started rising to the top after her surgery. ...

FULL STORY (With Video): https://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2020/0...in-the-middle-of-her-head/8941584124671/?sl=5
 
Stop it at once! There will be people adjusting puppies as we speak . . .

And I hoped to cornear the market!

Send me your bids now or risk being disappointeared. :evillaugh:
 
This was covered in a book I enjoyed much as a Child. Animal Oddities

Can recall author

Wheels by their nature are physicaly impossible but there is a single celled organism with an independently rotating rim.
 
Here is the full text of the news article cited above.
Five-legged dog steals hearts
Foundling pooch may get surgery

When Liz Bell saw the small, shivering dog in her friend's front yard, she thought it had been hit by a car. Its back left leg was curled under. It had a pronounced limp.

But when a veterinarian at an emergency clinic got a closer look, she found something much more serious. The dog had too many legs.
The dog, a female Maltese and terrier mix, is between 9 months and 1 year old. Veterinarians say it is extremely rare for an animal with such a serious deformity to survive into adulthood.

When she heard of the animal, Dr. Rebecca Tudor, a veterinary surgeon affiliated with N.C. State University, was stumped. She scoured medical journals for clues but found nothing. None of her university colleagues could help.

"I'm sure puppies have been born like that before," she said. "But to be an adult dog, well, I've never heard of it."

Bell, 39, hopes surgery can repair the little dog she calls Popcorn. The NCSU administrative assistant first encountered Popcorn two weeks ago while relaxing at home on a Saturday afternoon. She got a call from a friend, Debbie Hicks, who lives outside Raleigh near Umstead State Park. Hicks had discovered the stray dog on her front porch.

The dog looked to be in trouble, Hicks told her. It had lost much of its hair and had scabs across its back. Hicks tried to get close, but the dog snarled.

Bell, a dog lover who has a 15-year-old mutt, drove right over. The two women put on long-sleeved shirts and gardening gloves and gently coaxed the dog into a blue plastic cat carrier.

They took it to the After Hours Small Animal Emergency Clinic on Glenwood Avenue, but veterinarians took one look at the five legs and said there was little they could do.

Bell kept the dog over the weekend. Once she fed it and treated it for fleas, it became friendlier. She decided the dog must have had an owner at some point because it was house-trained. But it looked like it had been on its own for a while.

On Monday morning, Bell took the dog to Dr. Frank Ansede, her regular vet, who runs the Ansede Animal Hospital in South Raleigh. His assistant, Katie Morrison, took one look at the 6-pound, white-haired pup jumping around the office and named her "Popcorn."

The picture got clearer. Popcorn has an extra, or supernumerary, leg on her left back side. It is about 80 percent complete, with a femur, a tibia and one toenail. The other leg is normal, but it has been pushed to the side by the extra bones.

Ansede found other problems, too. An X-ray revealed that Popcorn is missing a rib. She had an ear infection and needed shots. Surgery to remove the extra leg would help, he advised, but it would be complicated and expensive.

Ansede approached Tudor, who runs a mobile animal surgery service, for help. The surgeon was intrigued. "It's just one of those bizarre things that happen in nature that we don't have a good reason for," Tudor said.

Both vets agreed to waive some of their usual fees, but with blood work and other expenses, the surgery will still cost about $800. Bell, who works in the electrical and computer engineering department at NCSU, has raised a couple of hundred dollars to pay expenses so far.

Because of the unusual bone structure, the veterinarians may end up removing both back left legs, leaving the five-legged dog with just three. Holding the chipper little dog in a white kitchen towel in Ansede's office, Bell said she is convinced Popcorn can handle anything -- and is worth the trouble.

"How could you not love that dog?" she asked. "She's so resilient."

SALVAGED FROM THE WAYBACK MACHINE:
https://web.archive.org/web/2003110...server.com/front/story/2986192p-2735969c.html
 
This Oklahoma puppy is believed to the first six-legged canine to be live-born and survive.
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Puppy born in Oklahoma believed to be the first to survive with six legs

Veterinarians at an Oklahoma animal hospital said a puppy believed to be the first ever to be born alive with six legs is beating the odds by surviving and thriving.

The Neel Veterinary Hospital in Oklahoma City said the puppy, named Skipper, was born with a single head and chest cavity, but she has six legs, two tails, two pelvic regions, two lower urinary tracts and two reproductive systems. ...

The hospital said Skipper is believed to be the first canine with six legs to be born alive, and despite some signs of spinal bifida, her organs "appear to be in great shape."

"All of her legs move and respond to stimulus just like a normal puppy. Its possible she may need physical therapy and assistance with mobility as she gets older," the hospital said in a Facebook post. ...

FULL STORY: https://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2021/0...first-to-survive-with-six-legs/7241614025692/
 
In 2005 a four-legged chicken was discovered on a Pennsylvania poultry farm.
Four-legged chicken a sight to behold!

Somerset, Pennsylvania - Henrietta the chicken was living inconspicuously for 18 months among 36 000 other chickens at Brendle Farms - until a farm foreman discovered she had four legs.

Farm-owner Mike Brendle was amazed by the discovery among his standard two-legged, egg-laying hens.

"It's as healthy as the rest," he said.

Brendle's 13-year-old daughter, Ashley, named the bird Henrietta after the discovery. It has two normal front legs and, behind those, two more feet. They are of a similar size to the chicken's front legs, but do not function. The chicken drags her extra feet behind her.

Brendle said he has never seen a chicken with four legs before. He moves 36 000 chickens through his farm three times a year and has been farming for 30 years.

There is no definitive reason behind such deformities, said Cliff Thompson, a retired professor of genetics at the University of Pittsburgh at Johnstown. He said it could be an accident of development, akin to a sixth toe on a cat.

Brendle said he jokingly suggested to his family they sell Henrietta in an Internet auction, but Ashley objected.

SALVAGED FROM THE WAYBACK MACHINE:
https://web.archive.org/web/2008121...et_id=1&click_id=29&art_id=qw115894188473B221
 
A report from Indonesia...

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Mutant baby shark with human face found in mother's belly stuns fisherman
Abdullah Nuren found three pups inside a mother shark and noticed one of them was deformed. He has preserved the mutant pup as he believes it will bring him good luck

Abdullah Nuren, 48, accidentally caught the apex predator while he was out fishing off the island of Rote Ndao in East Nusa Tenggara province of Indonesia on Sunday, February 21.

Little did he realise, the beast was pregnant with three pups and he found one of them with a distinctive feature – two large round eyes underneath its nose.

In the video, Abdullah places the baby shark in a paper box and puts him in a position that is revealing the belly.

The unborn mutant pup has its eyes right under the pointed snout, rather than at the two sides.
https://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/weird-news/mutant-baby-shark-human-face-23550135
 
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