1 SEPTEMBER 2016 • 8:48AM
South African researchers have
found the first known pair of identical twin puppies.
Scientists from
the University of Pretoria were presented with the pair of wolfhound
puppies after the mother dog's owner brought them to her local vet, Kurt
de Cramer .
They confirmed in a research
paper that the male puppies are the first known identical twin dogs.
The paper said: “To the best
of our knowledge, this is the first report of monozygotic twinning in the dog
confirmed using DNA profiling".
The mother dog had been in labour
for two hours with no results, so had to have a C-section.
Seven puppies were delivered, but
there was a remaining bulge which appeared to be a puppy in a second placenta.
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