Sheep Gives Birth to Human-Faced Lamb in Turkey

Sheep Gives Birth to Human-Faced Lamb in Turkey

As I search for something that would make interesting in the world of medicine I was shocked by this article about a sheep gave birth to a dead lamb with a human-like face. It is not even interesting but shocking. It is indeed shocking news in the world of science.

Though it is not really be categorized in medicine, this is one news alert of people in medical scrubs. I have read it all but sadly hasn't given me wider information about it. And to the fact that the biologists don't even have the chance to take a study about the creature because it was burnt. Below is the article that I got from one site:

A sheep gave birth to a dead lamb with a human-like face. The calf was born in a village not far from the city of Izmir, Turkey.

Erhan Elibol, a vet, performed Cesarean section on the animal to take the calf out, but was horrified to see that the features of the calf’s snout bore a striking resemblance to a human face.

“I’ve seen mutations with cows and sheep before. I’ve seen a one-eyed calf, a two-headed calf, a five-legged calf. But when I saw this youngster I could not believe my eyes. His mother could not deliver him so I had to help the animal,” the 29-year-old veterinary said.

The lamb’s head had human features on – the eyes, the nose and the mouth – only the ears were those of a sheep.

Veterinaries said that the rare mutation most likely occurred as a result of improper nutrition since the fodder for the lamb’s mother was abundant with vitamin A, CNNTurk.com reports.

In Zimbabwe, a goat gave birth to a similar youngster in September 2009. The mutant baby born with a human-like head stayed alive for several hours until the frightened village residents killed him.

The governor of the province where the ugly goat was born said that the little goat was the fruit of unnatural relationship between the female goat and a man.

"This incident is very shocking. It is my first time to see such an evil thing. It is really embarrassing," he reportedly said. "The head belongs to a man while the body is that of a goat. This is evident that an adult human being was responsible. Evil powers caused this person to lose self control. We often hear cases of human beings who commit bestiality but this is the first time for such an act to produce a product with human features," he added.

The mutant creature was hairless. Local residents said that even dogs were afraid to approach the bizarre animal.

The locals burnt the body of the little goat, and biologists had no chance to study the rare mutation.

Ekaterina Bogdanova
Komsomolskaya Pravda

It was really ridiculous and dreadful, how could this happen? Is this is a kind of insemination or what? Can a man possible have sex with a lamb? Well this is one horrible thing I can hear in this day and age. I know there are things that really happen between an awful man and an animal but not giving birth as the result of this act. I'm really curious about this one and if I was a biologist and this creature still exists I would have further research and study about it. In our human race there are so many strange things that happen and it absolutely surprised us and what really shocking is even with creature will do have amazing story too.