Pig with monkey face

This piglet with a monkey face was reportedly born in the Chinese village of Fenzghang in the Xiping township. I feel badly for the cute little guy. From Ananova:

"It's hideous. No one will be willing to buy it, and it scares the family to even look at it!" (farmer Feng Changlin) told Oriental Today...

"But our son likes to play with it," (said his wife,) and he stopped us from getting rid of it. He even feeds it milk."

Piglet with monkey's face (Ananova), More photos (Xeniphilius)

[#1 posted by monstrinho_do_biscoito , July 28, 2008 9:59 AM]

christ! stop it looking at me!

[#2 posted by justONEguy , July 28, 2008 9:59 AM]

I just threw up in my mouth a little.

No wait... a lot.

[#3 posted by Anonymous , July 28, 2008 10:07 AM]

A pig like that, you don't eat all at once.

[#4 posted by nabru , July 28, 2008 10:09 AM]

Well, I didn't really want to eat lunch today anyways..

[#5 posted by Anonymous , July 28, 2008 10:12 AM]

Now why wasn't -that- in the terrible new X-files movie?

[#6 posted by Anonymous , July 28, 2008 10:20 AM]

where is my unicorn chaser!!!

[#7 posted by Justin Ried , July 28, 2008 10:21 AM]

Awh, you guys are mean. It's totally cute, like straight out of Monsters Inc.

[#8 posted by mappo , July 28, 2008 10:26 AM]

Anyone else smell a photochop? In the second and third photos it has a smooth, round head, but on the first photo it has a distinct Noodly Appendage on top of its head.

[#9 posted by benny nero , July 28, 2008 10:31 AM]

Like the fella said: "Badly is an adverb. So to say you feel badly would be saying that the mechanism which allows you to feel is broken."

[#10 posted by Anonymous , July 28, 2008 10:34 AM]

It looks like it's halfway to a cyclops. Malformed jaw, malformed legs, malformed eyes/snout. Don't think it will live long. Didn't that pig with two faces also come out of china not so long ago?

[#11 posted by ttcfcl , July 28, 2008 10:37 AM]

I'd like to thank Mark for the Bunnyzilla-chaser.

[#12 posted by Phikus , July 28, 2008 10:38 AM]

I hope it can see with those eyes. They don't look like they have much... pigment.

[#13 posted by dbarak , July 28, 2008 10:41 AM]

It looks like it might be blind. I hope it's not in any discomfort or anything.

[#14 posted by Anonymous , July 28, 2008 10:43 AM]

Hmmm
Suprisingly this bolsters my faith in evolution. If one mutation can have such a dramatic effect, maybe creating a new species isn't so hard after all.

[#15 posted by IWood , July 28, 2008 10:48 AM]

It's a monkey-faced pig. Of course it's not comfortable.

[#16 posted by Anonymous , July 28, 2008 10:52 AM]

Oh my gosh, that looks like the mutated domestic pigs from the takes place in Chernobyl-zone game: STALKER Oblivion Lost

[#17 posted by dbarak , July 28, 2008 10:53 AM]

He he... IWOOD, I didn't mean "socially" uncomfortable. ; ) I wonder how the other pigs react to it?

[#18 posted by Anonymous , July 28, 2008 10:55 AM]

The piglet looks like it suffers from some Sonic Hedgehog transcription error a la the cyclops baby born in India last year, or the infamous kitten. Either its a genetic defect or the sow was exposed to some environmental toxin. Poor piglet.

[#19 posted by Nelson.C , July 28, 2008 11:02 AM]

Mappo @5: Different sides of its head. On the right side it's smooth, but on the left there's a depression or discoloured down. Given that this is probably a developmental growth problem there's almost bound to be some asymmetry to the poor thing.

As to being a photoshop, I would think it unlikely: downy fur is a bugger to photoshop around convincingly, and I think a photoshopper would have created something more photogenically ugly.

[#20 posted by Trent Hawkins , July 28, 2008 11:21 AM]

Oh crap it's an Orc!

Gank it before it takes lumber mill!

[#21 posted by Ugly Canuck , July 28, 2008 11:23 AM]

Isn't that a face from that kids' cartoon...Care bears? The evil troll helper to a nasty little girl...I've seen it while channel surfing...or is it the Smurfs?

[#22 posted by mdhatter , July 28, 2008 11:34 AM]

I'd name it Soylent.

[#23 posted by ill lich , July 28, 2008 11:35 AM]

I don't get it. . . isnt this supposed to be the Year of The Rat in the Chinese zodiac? Why wasnt it born with a rat face?

[#24 posted by darren , July 28, 2008 11:38 AM]

Maybe they can teach it to talk.

[#25 posted by airshowfan , July 28, 2008 11:44 AM]

"It's hideous. No one will be willing to buy it..."

Oh, I doubt that.

Let's go. Bidding starts at US$ 25... ;)

[#26 posted by tl , July 28, 2008 11:47 AM]

Yikes...What's going on at the Hundred Acre Wood?

[#27 posted by angryhippo , July 28, 2008 11:51 AM]

ManBearPig!

[#28 posted by chenry , July 28, 2008 12:02 PM]

Ms Piggy cheated on Kermit with Joey or David Monkey!

[#29 posted by FourFiveFire , July 28, 2008 12:02 PM]

There's an almost...Dick Traceyesque quality to him.

[#30 posted by Kirsten , July 28, 2008 12:35 PM]

Airshowfan@25 - I concur. $35.

[#31 posted by inger , July 28, 2008 12:46 PM]

dude, i TOTALLY dated that guy.

[#32 posted by cinemajay , July 28, 2008 12:52 PM]

All the more reason to skip food shipped from China.

[#33 posted by Jim O'Connell , July 28, 2008 1:11 PM]

Interesting how the guy in the doorway doesn't want his face in the photo. I wonder if there's a family resemblance...

[#34 posted by Comedian , July 28, 2008 1:25 PM]

This is fake.

It clearly is a pig-bodied monkey.

[#35 posted by Pipenta , July 28, 2008 1:55 PM]

Poor thing looks very much blind.

And it looks creepy. It reminds me very much of the baby alien in the last Alien movie.

[#36 posted by Anonymous , July 28, 2008 2:17 PM]

I... wow. It looks a lot like a Sonic Hedgehog deficiency to me, although I'm no scientist. Simply put, Sonic Hedgehog is the same gene that causes those famous cycloptic kittens every so often--from Wikipedia: sonic hedgehog has also been shown to act as an axonal guidance cue. It has been demonstrated that Shh attracts commissural axons at the ventral midline of the developing spinal cord.[6] Specifically, Shh attracts retinal ganglion cell (RGC) axons at low concentrations and repels them at higher concentrations.

It basically makes sure things in the middle split bilaterally like they're supposed to--note the small round snout and really closely-set eyes. The large forehead and mouth deformities tend to show up in cycloptic animals, too.

[#37 posted by VICTOR JIMENEZ , July 28, 2008 2:59 PM]

Looks like a John K. toon!
I would expect that pig smoking a big habano with Ren or Stimpy...

[#38 posted by klg19 , July 28, 2008 3:18 PM]

SOME PIG.

Where's Charlotte when you need her?

[#39 posted by Blue , July 28, 2008 3:34 PM]

Will Wright's master plan has come to fruition. The Spore Creature Creator has achieved critical mass and is manifesting in our universe.

It can only be days until the inevitable arrival of the penis monsters.

[#40 posted by Nelson.C , July 28, 2008 3:37 PM]

Ill Lich @23: Because the ones born with rat faces were also born with the bodies of... rats!

[#41 posted by Tenn , July 28, 2008 4:39 PM]

It's not that disturbing to me.

Suprisingly this bolsters my faith in evolution. If one mutation can have such a dramatic effect, maybe creating a new species isn't so hard after all.

Er, okay. I believe in evolution, but this is a muy mal mutation, not the good sort that leads to good changes in a species.

[#42 posted by franith , July 28, 2008 5:02 PM]

it kinda looks like ... mr garrison!

[#43 posted by Orchestra Spy , July 28, 2008 5:25 PM]

@ #1, yeah man you said it. If it was mine I would have an underling euthanize it. All hail the pig gods to give this little one wings ;>

[#44 posted by SuperDoop , July 28, 2008 6:33 PM]

Monkey Pig is Love.

[#45 posted by Itsumishi , July 28, 2008 7:45 PM]

@AngryHippo.

Damn you beat me to it! Al Gore was only a little bit off. Now I wonder if it's gene's will splice with an elephant?

[#46 posted by minTphresh , July 28, 2008 8:42 PM]

i for one welcome our simian-faced, porcine overlords!

[#47 posted by insomma , July 29, 2008 2:23 AM]

Which came first, the monkey or the pig?

[#48 posted by error404 , July 29, 2008 2:23 AM]

And first off the blocks with a poorly thought out declaration of "Photoshop" is....

#8 posted by mappo.

Congratulations

[#49 posted by Sork , July 29, 2008 5:47 AM]

Monkey pig, monkey pig.
Does whatever a monkey pig does.
Can he swing from a tree?
No he can't he's a pig.
So watch out, here's the monkey pig

[#50 posted by butfirst , July 29, 2008 5:57 AM]

To Mappo at #8: It appears the 3 photos on Xenophilius are of two different piglets. The first appears to be the piglet from Fengzhang village in China, but the people in the two subsequent pictures don't look like Chinese villagers. In fact, the crest on the man's cap in the third picture suggests it's more likely a village in Indonesia and therefore a different piglet.

This of course means that the pig/ape creatures are appearing across the globe. I, for one, welcome our new overlords, I just wasn't expecting them to be a cross between Planet of the Apes and Babe.

[#51 posted by Anonymous , July 29, 2008 11:22 AM]

Has anyone read Animal Farm? This is like.. the last sentence of the book. The weird thing is, I just finished it for the first time yesterday.. Freaky

[#52 posted by ichaduma , July 29, 2008 6:20 PM]

@ #50

You're right. The piglet in first picture is from Fengzhang village, China — as posted in Xenophilius and Orange. But one in the other two pictures is from Watuliney village, North Sulawesi Island, Indonesia.

[#53 posted by joanna , July 30, 2008 11:15 AM]

Definitely worth clicking on that second link - the Indonesian pig in the third photo has the huggable dejected ugliness of a Henson creation, like Ludo in Labyrinth.

[#54 posted by heatScore , July 31, 2008 11:11 PM]

umm monkey face?
more like pig farmer face.

uhhh yeah.

[#55 posted by JonathanMaberry , August 1, 2008 11:42 AM]

Now that's just too cool. I would definitely raise that l'il critter.

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