Two-Snouted Cyclops Pig Born In China (PHOTO)

Although he may not look like it, the animal pictured below is actually a pig.

The animal, which was born at a farm owned by Xiao Jintu in China's Fujian Province, has two snouts and a cyclops eye in the middle of its head, according to Metro.

HuffPost UK reports that the strange piglet was the fifth of his litter, and has not yet been named.

This little guy isn't the first two-snouted pig born in China, reports Metro. Bai Xuejin, who raised a two-snouted pig in Jilin province said, "We knew something was different because her head was so large we had to help when her mother gave birth."

Deformed pigs aren't the only weird animals making the news recently. In July, a fisherman in Mexico caught a pregnant shark with a cyclops fetus inside it that "looks more like a happy cartoon character than a real shark."

In September, a two-headed cat from Massachusetts named "Frankenlouie" celebrated its twelfth birthday. He holds a Guinness World Record for being the longest-lived Janus cat (a name derived from the two-faced Roman god).

Some weird animals come in smaller, and cuter, packages. "Teeny" and "Tiny" are the names of a two-headed razorback musk turtle from California that's about the size of a nickel.

Some contend that putting unusual-looking animals on display is cruel. Heidi, a cross-eyed opossum from Germany which died in September, suffered from esotropia due to malnutrition earlier in life.

Regarding Heidi and other unusual animals, Edmund Haferbeck, an animal expert with Germany's branch of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, told the Associated Press, "These animals are put on show for millions of people, but afterward they remain incurably crippled."

Comments

[Italianbrian]

08:59 PM on 01/12/2012

I can only hope that this lil' feller' lives a LONG LIFE, full of LOVE and GOOD TIMES! God Bless!

[Mallory Bernard]

04:03 PM on 12/16/2011

Poor little anus face.

[klwarner]

02:58 PM on 12/16/2011

Oh my goodness, look at that cute little guy.

[condokinghhi]

11:50 AM on 12/16/2011

and we wonder why all the flu viruses start out over there... wtf are they DOING in that cess pool of a country?

[NJBill]

09:08 PM on 12/16/2011

It's funny, I was thinking the same thing, seems like most of those kinds of deformities are over there. Sad.

[condokinghhi]

11:47 AM on 12/16/2011

another example of the quality of things "made in China"... YIKES!!!... hey, Wally World, think it's about time we started getting things from somewhere else to sell to us Americans?!?...

[Brandon Thelmus]

03:23 PM on 12/16/2011

Ironic, the most valuable art and crafts comes from that very location but so does everything else made in the 21st century.
It's the economy working to free itself of the entanglements of our messy 'misguided creations'. Investments/ housing/ banking/ consumer goods seeded with greed to name a few.

I am glad for the natural workings of an often inexplicable global economy that at least empowers masses of less fortunate for whom our minor conveniences were a luxury just a decade ago.
Look no further than a certain H1B visa. It's what keeps this economy running smoothly in the US in the 1st place. The reverse brain drain is and will continue be a loss if we dont see the value in it. Hence proving the fact again that things work to the benefit of the less fortunate more or less out of circumstance or by interjection.

[Justgot2thinking]

10:53 AM on 12/16/2011

They're Conjoined animals. The twins didn't seperate as is normal and this is a far as they got. It happens to Humans all the time, look up conjoined twins. It's not genetic, it's a birth defect. For some reason they stop mid way while growing apart in the fetus state. Not two snouts, twin pigs who stoped developing too soon. Same with "two headed snakes" and "two headed" cows, etc. Not so unusual at all.

[sal9268]

12:21 PM on 12/16/2011

Favors the bama.

[sal9268]

12:25 PM on 12/16/2011

Still looks like the bama.

[WryAwry]

09:52 AM on 12/16/2011

Haha, funny, haha, cute -- will the significance of genetic defects be driven home when more and more human babies are born with monsterous deformities?

[NJBill]

09:13 PM on 12/16/2011

A person had posted not too long after you something that made sense - they said that it was conjoined, not a genetic defect and if you look at it that's most likely what it was.

[aleafinthewind]

08:28 AM on 12/16/2011

awww I want one, I hope it stays in good health

[Danno30]

07:51 AM on 12/16/2011

Wow when I saw that picture, I thought it was the backside of some strange animal.

[kngalx723]

07:11 AM on 12/16/2011

This is what happens when you play around with Photobooth effects too much.

[stumpbender]

10:38 PM on 12/15/2011

Not really sure, mankind or nature...Just hope one of them comes up with 1 head and 2 bodies...twice the food, half the space.

[stumpbender]

10:23 PM on 12/15/2011

Some of the posts are bringing me to tears, I've laughed so hard....you gotta lighten up. opinions are like sphincters, everyone's got one.....and at times they stink, If the little kids suffering, end it quick. (I call all little critters kids)

[a lucky cat]

08:50 PM on 12/15/2011

Mother nature can be weird sometimes ....

[CinNYC]

08:04 PM on 12/15/2011

cognitive dissonance: aww cute little pig, hope he lives. ok back to my bacon porkburger with chitlins.

[HottyTotty]

09:24 PM on 12/15/2011

lmfao

that actually sounds really gross but hahah @bacon porkburger with chitlins hahahahhahhahhahaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

[beatleTerry]

07:26 PM on 12/15/2011

Does the pig have a mouth?

[rdavis0805]

12:15 PM on 12/16/2011

I think its right under the snout - that area that looks like its 'foaming'