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shocking video has emerged showing a piglet with two heads in China
leaving people baffled as to what could have caused the problem.
The piglet born with two heads
A poor little piglet has been born with two heads and is being kept as a pet instead of being raised for slaughter, Dailymail has reported.
The animal lives on a farm in China and is being taken care of by
its owner, who has separated it from its siblings in the same litter.
The piglet is already a few weeks old, and footage shows it able to
walk around on its own despite its bizarre conjoined head. It still
appears slightly unstable and wobbles as it tries to orientate itself
with its eyes, of which there are two on either side of its two heads.
The third and fourth eyes appear not to have developed properly and would have been somewhere in the middle of the two heads.
Amazingly, the piglet is able to eat, though it is unclear out of
which mouth it feeds. Despite having survived for a few weeks, the
animal, whose condition is the result of a freak genetic mutation, is
unlikely to survive until adulthood.
Though if it does live a longer than expected life, its owners do
not plan to slaughter it and turn it into bacon. Experts have yet to
comment to say how long the piglet is likely to live.
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