Woman finds pig with two heads buried in yard

By: Ryan Lee Hall

A woman found a strange pig that sported two heads buried in a backyard.

The woman from Pennsylvania, said she discovered the pig with two heads preserved in a glass jar buried in the backyard of her mother.

Sharon Reagle said she was planting green leafed plants in Saegertown at the home of her mother, Betty Wood, on Sunday when she found a bottle containing preservation liquid inside a tied bag.

Reagle said she took the object inside and opened the bag, revealing the two-headed pig inside.

"It was unique, really pretty clean," Reagle said. "It did not bother me at all," she added.

"My parents lived there for 56 years and they never raised pigs, so I don’t know how it got her," Reagle said about the jar.

Reagle gave the strange specimen to Allegheny College.

"This is like a Christmas gift for biologists. Students will love it," Lisa Whitenack, the assistant professor of biology at school, said.

http://www.yourjewishnews.com/2013/06/n27656.html

Baby bird with 2 heads, three beaks found in Northampton

NORTHAMPTON - There are plenty of rare sights during spring in the Pioneer Valley, but perhaps few quite as rare as what April Britt found in the backyard of her Hinckley Street home: a two-headed, three-beaked baby bird.

Britt said she found the bird near the base of a tree in her yard Monday afternoon and, figuring it wouldn't survive for long on the ground, returned it to its nest and to the pair of cardinals inside.

Britt said the deformed bird didn't make any sound that she could hear and appeared to only be able eat with assistance from the adult birds in the nest. It seemed that the bird's middle beak didn't work well and wasn't fully formed to grip food or eat on its own. And the partially formed beaks on either side didn't appear to be connected to the bird's throat, she said.

PHOTO COURTESY APRIL BRITT

Tom Lautzenheiser, regional scientist for the Massachusetts Audubon Society, said abnormalities like the one Britt found do occur from time to time, but most times they're not witnessed.

Lautzenheiser said that in most cases, animals with such severe deformities do not survive to birth, and the ones that do usually perish a short time after.

Finding an animal with such a pronounced deformity having lived long enough to move about on its own and find its way out of the nest make the find that much more unusual, Lautzenheiser said.

The bird's abnormalities, Lautzenheiser said, could be the result of random chance, some type of problem during development in which a pair of embryos didn't split as they should have, man-made chemicals affecting the development of the embryo, or a combination of those factors.

On Tuesday morning, the baby bird and two adults were no longer in the tree where they had made a home, Britt said, leaving the question of whether it could survive on its own up for debate.

Britt, 67, said she has a habit of saving lost or displaced animals when she finds them - everything from a snapping turtle she lured with a stick into her car to be dropped off at a nearby pond, to the ants and spiders she finds in the house and carries outside in a jar rather than stomp on them.

She said the bird wasn't around long enough for her to give it a name, but she thought of one in hindsight.

"I could have called this one 'Beaker,'" she said.

By BOB DUNN STAFF WRITER
Gazette Contributing Writer

http://www.gazettenet.com/2012/05/30/baby-bird-challenged-with-2-heads-three-beaks

Two-headed calf born in Georgia

By Associated Press
Story Published: Jan 7, 2011 at 8:59 AM PST

TBILISI, Georgia (AP) - A cow in Georgia has given birth to a two-headed calf.

Farmer Irakli Dzhgarkava, shown with the calf on Imedi television, says the cow is refusing to allow her strange offspring to suckle, so they are giving it milk from a bottle.

He says the calf eats with both heads.

Friday's television report says people have been coming to the village of Martvili to see the grayish-brown calf since it was born Jan. 2.

The village is located in western Georgia, about 280 kilometers (170 miles) from the capital, Tbilisi.


http://www.keprtv.com/news/offbeat/113078174.html

Egyptian farmer calls two-headed calf 'a miracle'

Egyptian farmers feed their two-headed calf that still can't stand on its own legs because it is top heavy at a village near Alexandria, Egypt, Saturday, July 3, 2010. The calf owner Sobhy el-Ganzoury, said Saturday the veterinarian informed him that the calf, delivered three days earlier, is now in stable condition and is expected to survive adding he intends to keep the rare calf as a reminder that "God is able to do anything," referring to the calf as "divine miracle" . (AP Photo)

Jul 3, 2:39 PM EDT

CAIRO (AP) -- A farmer in northern Egypt says his cow has given birth to a two-headed calf that he calls a "divine miracle."

Sobhy el-Ganzoury said Saturday it took two hours and much pulling to deliver the rare calf. He said the difficult birth has weakened the calf's legs.

El-Ganzoury said the veterinarian informed him that the calf, which was born this week, is now in stable condition and is expected to survive. He said he intends to keep the animal as a reminder that "God is able to do anything."

The calf still can't stand up because of its heavy heads and weak legs, and is being fed her mother's milk with a baby bottle.

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/M/ML_ODD_EGYPT_TWO_HEADED_CALF

Two-headed bobtail lizard found in Australia

Tom Phillips
22nd April, 2010

It's been a while since we've had a decent two-headed animal on these pages. So, without further ado, we proudly present… the two-headed lizard.

The two-headed bobtail (a type of skink native to Australia, also known as the Shingleback) was rescued in Coogee, New South Wales, by workers from a reptile park.

Now housed at the reptile park in Henley Brook, Perth, it's doing well - despite the fact that two-headed lizards tend to not have very long life expectancies.

The lizard - which doesn't just have two heads, but has a set of forelegs on either side of each head - is even able to eat with both mouths.

The major downside of having two heads is that it makes moving around quite difficult, and the larger of the two heads has a tendency to try and attack the smaller head.

The bobtail's brother, who has just the one head, is also housed at the park.

http://www.metro.co.uk/weird/822873-two-headed-bobtail-lizard-found-in-australia

Hurrah, it's a Turtle With Two Heads

Friday, February 27, 2009

While we had a Frog With Seven Legs just yesterday, it's been a while since we had a good animal with an unexpectedly large number of heads. We are pleased to rectify that situation now, as we present to you A Turtle With Two Heads.

The Turtle With Two Heads was found in Chengdu, Sichuan Province, China. That is pretty much all we know about The Turtle With Two Heads. So much so that we are basically just copying and pasting the text from yesterday's Frog With Seven Legs article. It's late, shut up.

http://www.metro.co.uk/weird/article.html?Hurrah,_its_a_Turtle_With_Two_Heads&in_article_id=562037&in_page_id=2