Three-eyed piglet with two snouts

This is a piglet born in China that has two snouts, two mouths, and three eyes. According to The Telegraph, the piglet lives on the farm of Yang Qiaofen of Huimen village, Menla County, China. From The Telegraph:

While it is able to feed - "both mouths can drink at the same time," noted a surprised Yang, who is feeding it on powdered milk - it is unable to stand properly.

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[#1 posted by Jeff , January 23, 2008 10:17 AM]

Wonderful? It's a sad birth defect. I feel bad for the animal.

[#2 posted by toastandlove , January 23, 2008 10:20 AM]

It has THREE eyes, as the article clearly states, which is WAY cooler than just one.

And both mouths can feed at once, suggesting it has more than one, or at least a Y-shaped, esophagus.

Awesome!

[#3 posted by Lauren O , January 23, 2008 10:21 AM]

Second cutest miscreant ever, after the cyclops kitty.

[#4 posted by Santa's Knee , January 23, 2008 10:32 AM]

Can haz unicorn chaser plz?

[#5 posted by noelleisfine , January 23, 2008 10:41 AM]

whatev; that pig be playin' with photobooth.

[#6 posted by David Pescovitz , January 23, 2008 10:46 AM]

@TOASTANDLOVE, thanks! Fixed!

[#7 posted by Lex10 , January 23, 2008 10:46 AM]

Ahhhh....Woodring's Syndrome

[#8 posted by Takuan , January 23, 2008 10:47 AM]

lithium salts?

[#9 posted by agoodsandwich , January 23, 2008 11:09 AM]

I, for one, welcome our two-snouted cyclop pig overlords.

[#10 posted by ShrimpCrackers , January 23, 2008 11:10 AM]

Pollution?

[#11 posted by Sra , January 23, 2008 11:10 AM]

Looks like a photoshop special to me -- too symmetrical.

[#12 posted by mappo , January 23, 2008 11:38 AM]

Yeah, Photoshop for sure. You can see the seam right down the center of the image.

[#13 posted by lukobe , January 23, 2008 11:49 AM]

Looks like holoprosencephaly (do a Google image search if you're not squeamish--lots of human examples)

[#14 posted by dave78981 , January 23, 2008 11:59 AM]

here's a link to a similar deformity from the times uk page:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/graphics/2007/03/09/weekpix/070307pig.jpg

[#15 posted by A New Challenger , January 23, 2008 12:08 PM]

Conjoined twins who share every major organ.

[#16 posted by HunterZ , January 23, 2008 12:26 PM]

I wonder what pollutant is all over China that is causing all these weird birth defects? Or maybe they just make a bigger deal about them than other places?

[#17 posted by phlavor , January 23, 2008 12:45 PM]

"Polly shouldn't be." SQUAWK!

[#18 posted by License Farm , January 23, 2008 1:28 PM]

Pig snouts for everyone!

[#19 posted by lectroid , January 23, 2008 2:29 PM]

One gallary of unicorn chasers comin' up!

http://greywolf.critter.net/gallery/unicornsgallery.htm

NB, this chaser contains totally SFW furry images.

[#20 posted by pr10n , January 23, 2008 3:06 PM]

But Daddy, how does it smell?

Awful, it's a pig.

[#21 posted by FAC33 , January 23, 2008 6:18 PM]

#13 - Holoprosencephaly is probably behind cyclops kitty, but not sure about this one - does it ever produce three eyes rather than one? Not sure whether this is the same thang.

[#22 posted by Hanglyman , January 23, 2008 7:27 PM]

I wonder what it would be like to see with three eyes, especially set all around its head like that. It must have a huge field of view.