Sheep Gives Birth to Human-Faced Lamb in Turkey

[Selma Shirazi]

Sheep Gives Birth to Human-Faced Lamb in Turkey

By Pravda.Ru writer Dmitry Sudakov
12.01.2010

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.

[Selma Shirazi]

I can't believe this, hope its a photoshop.

[vinod2070]

In Afghanistan I would have believed it, considering the famous "love" for goat and sheep among some there. ;)

Not sure if Turkey has some goat and sheep lovers too!

[Al-Zakir]

Mutation of some kind.

[Solid Beast]

Absolutely disgusting and unnatural, a slap in the face to nature. People have got to stop having sex with animals. Must be extremely hard finding a girlfriend in certain villages.

[wtf]

Originally Posted by Solid Beast

Absolutely disgusting and unnatural, a slap in the face to nature. People have got to stop having sex with animals. Must be extremely hard finding a girlfriend in certain villages.

Don't take that comment about human-animal hybrid at face value. It is impossible for Human sperm to join with an animal egg to produce a viable offspring - The number of chromosomes in Humans/sheep are different and the antibodies in sheep will kill off any invasive cells anyway. The comment from the governor is wrong from a biological perspective.

It is possible to hybridize related species (Horse/donkey, lion/tiger etc.). But human/chimpanzee hybrids have not happened for last 1.2 million years (Humanzee - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia) and it is assumed that we are different enough to make it a near impossibility. It is as likely that a lion eating a sheep gets impregnated by the sheep as a Human-sheep hybrid.


The "sheep with human face" is either a photo shop or a freak mutation.

[vinod2070]

^^ I am sure we were all talking of it in sarcasm. I agree with your analysis.

[Xeric]

i think people need to learn some science here, even if that bestiality (not Solid Beast ;), but that thing where you do it with the animals) thing is practiced as some worthy members have suggest, it wont yield any results of the like that has been posted by Selma, because of the sole reason the human sex chromosomes are different in numbers than the animals and conception cant take place. But the 'spiritual' effect might still remain there..

[Solid Beast]

There are some pretty dumb hoaxes that come out of Islamic societies though. For instance :









Here is a superficially funny story about superstition and rumor-mongering. But there is a darker undercurrent: is this story completely fictional, or can it story be traced to a real girl in Taibeh? If so, where is the girl? Has she been murdered for throwing the Qur'an? With the claims that Muslims killed people in Afghanistan because they thought the Qur'an was desecrated at Gitmo, it is not outside the realm of possibility. The Islamic media that originated the stories of rioters killing people in the desecration riots made sure of that.

From YnetNews, with thanks to all who sent this in:

TAIBEH – Harsh punishment? A Muslim girl from Taibeh was punished by Allah and turned into a dog, according to rumors that have been circulating in the Arab-Israeli town this week, Arab-language newspaper Panorama reported.

According to the rumors, the harsh punishment was meted out after the girl, upset by her mother’s request to bring her the Quran as she
was watching television, threw the holy Muslim book at the mother with disdain.

The newspaper decided to look into the rumors and sent a reporter to check where they originated. As it turned out, the source was a photocopy of a news story posted in Taibeh’s largest mosque. According to that report, taken from the Internet, the unusual story happened in a Muslim country in Asia....

The newspaper reporter also turned to the Muslim leaders to ask their opinion on the matter. One religious cleric responded that the story was obviously baseless, “since Allah doesn’t need to turn a girl into a dog in order to prove his strength. If Allah wants to prove his power he can make the entire universe shake.”

Posted by Robert on June 13, 2005 12:35 PM | 30 Comm

[Lady Macbeth]

Originally Posted by Solid Beast

There are some pretty dumb hoaxes that come out of Islamic societies though. For instance :





Here is a superficially funny story about superstition and rumor-mongering. But there is a darker undercurrent: is this story completely fictional, or can it story be traced to a real girl in Taibeh? If so, where is the girl? Has she been murdered for throwing the Qur'an? With the claims that Muslims killed people in Afghanistan because they thought the Qur'an was desecrated at Gitmo, it is not outside the realm of possibility. The Islamic media that originated the stories of rioters killing people in the desecration riots made sure of that.

From YnetNews, with thanks to all who sent this in:

TAIBEH – Harsh punishment? A Muslim girl from Taibeh was punished by Allah and turned into a dog, according to rumors that have been circulating in the Arab-Israeli town this week, Arab-language newspaper Panorama reported.

According to the rumors, the harsh punishment was meted out after the girl, upset by her mother’s request to bring her the Quran as she
was watching television, threw the holy Muslim book at the mother with disdain.

The newspaper decided to look into the rumors and sent a reporter to check where they originated. As it turned out, the source was a photocopy of a news story posted in Taibeh’s largest mosque. According to that report, taken from the Internet, the unusual story happened in a Muslim country in Asia....

The newspaper reporter also turned to the Muslim leaders to ask their opinion on the matter. One religious cleric responded that the story was obviously baseless, “since Allah doesn’t need to turn a girl into a dog in order to prove his strength. If Allah wants to prove his power he can make the entire universe shake.”

Posted by Robert on June 13, 2005 12:35 PM | 30 Comm

I am sure we can all point out to bizarre superstitions that every religion believes to be true....
Weeping statues?
Weeping Statues and Icons - Blood, Water, Oil - Crystalinks

Milk Drinking Ganesh?
Hindu Milk Miracle

Stigmata?
stigmata - real or fake? Gallery

I dont want to offend any religion...but I am sure there are fruitcakes everywhere.