Pictures in link. Seriously, what would make a piglet turn out like that?Piglet with monkey's face
Villagers were shocked after a monkey-like piglet was born in China.
Curious locals flocked to the home of owner Feng Changlin after news of the piglet spread in Fengzhang village, Xiping township.
"It's hideous. No one will be willing to buy it, and it scares the family to even look at it!" Feng told Oriental Today.
He says the piglet looks just like a monkey, with two thin lips, a small nose and two big eyes. Its rear legs are also much longer than its forelegs, causing it to jump instead of walk.
Feng's wife said the monkey-faced piglet was one of five newborns of a sow which the family had raised for nine years.
"My God, it was so scary. I didn't known what it was. I was really frightened," she said.
"But our son likes to play with it, and he stopped us from getting rid of it. He even feeds it milk."
Neighbours have suggested the couple keep the piglet to see how it looks as it matures.
First, the elephant man, now, the monkey piglet
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First, the elephant man, now, the monkey piglet
As Crispin Glover's last film was titled - WHAT IS IT?
Dunno, it seems like the "looks just like a monkey!!!" reaction is the human brain doing pattern recognition again, rather than any real resemblance to any real monkey species. It's just fucked up by random mutation.
...though it may be interesting to try raising and breeding it with other pigs
...though it may be interesting to try raising and breeding it with other pigs
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Looks pretty friggin freaky if you ask me.
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Aoccdrnig to rscheearch at an Elingsh uinervtisy, it deosn't mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoetnt tihng is taht frist and lsat ltteer are in the rghit pclae. The rset can be a toatl mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit a porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae we do not raed ervey lteter by it slef but the wrod as a wlohe.
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It has a minor instance of cyclopia. It's sonic hedgehog gene was disrupted in facial formation, leading to that. http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articl ... id=1040589
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Purge the mutant with holy fire!CaptainChewbacca wrote:KILL IT WITH FIRE! THE CHAOS MUST BE CLEANSED!!!
God-Emperor, that's freaky. The only thing I know of to compare is monkey-faced lambs, whose mothers ate false hellebore during gestation. Link with description, no pics. I'd link to some if I could find them.
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Do you really want to breed a new race of highly intelligent hoofed species? One Planet of Apes was not enough huh? You want a Planet of Monkey-Piglets?PeZook wrote:Dunno, it seems like the "looks just like a monkey!!!" reaction is the human brain doing pattern recognition again, rather than any real resemblance to any real monkey species. It's just fucked up by random mutation.
...though it may be interesting to try raising and breeding it with other pigs
Anyways, I really feel sorry for the poor thing. Not that the actual piglet really cares about it's look.
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