Animals With Genetic Alterations

1. Animals With Genetic Alterations

2. Freaky Calves – Two Headed

3. Freaky Calves – Legs and Heads • Two head • Three tails

4. Odd Horns and Antlers

5. Odd Horns and Antlers

6. Extra Set of Legs

7. Missing Eyes and Blindness • Couch's Spadefoot Toad, Crazy Eyes Cricket Killer.One vertical pupil and one horizontal pupil. He is blind in the horizontal one.

8. Strange Haircut

9. Chickens • Rooster with no feet.This rooster had pieces of plasticattached to its feet so it could walk.

10. Chickens • Horned Hen.This hen's horn is comparable toa normal chicken spur, except it'son her head instead of a leg.

11. Chickens • 4-Winged Chicken.(floor mount)

12. Chickens • Scientists in the agriculture departmentof the Hebrew University in Rehovothave genetically engineered a chickenthat has no feathers.

13. Turken • TurkenThis breed of chicken never grows featherson it's neck or breast. It is NOT a cross between a chicken and a turkey.

14. Headless Chicken • The Amazing, true story of this famous fowl dates back to September 10, 1945 when Mike, a young Wyandotte rooster, was about to become the dinner of Fruita, Colorado, farmer Lloyd Olsen. • With a sharp ax in hand, Mr. Olsen firmly held Mike, preparing to make the bird ready for his wife Clara's cooking pot. Mr. Olsen swung the implement, thereby lopping off poor Mike's head. Mike shook off the event, then continued trying to peck for food. • Mike's will to live remains an inspiration. It is a great comfort to know you can live a normal life, even after you have lost your mind. • Thanks, Mike!

15. Deformed Lobster Claws

16. Rat Kings • This engraving is of a rat king found at Johann Heinrich Jager's flour-grinding mill at Gross Ballheiser, Holland on July 13, 1748. The rats were hidden under the cogwheels and fell out from between two stones. According to Martin Hart's definitive book "Rats" (London, 1982), 57 incidents of rat kings were recorded between 1564 and 1963, mostly in Germany and all among black rats. Most kings consist of five to twelve rats, which are often of the same age, seemingly not yet adult. They are usually found alive, discovered because of their loud squeals and in the sort of places where black rats make their nests (behind walls, in lofts, cellars and barns).

17. Unicorn Ram Horned Rooster Science of Life

18. Science of Life • Earless Sheep - Two effects due to single genes. A normal sheep (left). A mutation which involves the almost complete loss of the external ear (center and right). (c1929)

19. Deformed Fish • This fish started to divide but never fully split. You can see on the belly where the head of the second fish was forming. Along the side you can see what should have been the fin from the back of the smaller twin. If you look close where the dark part on the side reaches the back of the larger fish, there is the tail of the little fish. When the fish was cleaned, the inside of the smaller head, the throat area and part of the digestive tract and air sack were formed and attached to that of the larger fish. The back bone was jelly like but it was visable.

20. Deformed Fish • Instead of having two heads, this Pikeactually had two bodies with one head.

21. Deformed Cats • Twisty Cats - (also may be called Squittens or Kangaroo Cats) These cats are being raised by very close in-breeding. This breeding results in kittens that have short and twisted front legs.This tends to force the cat to walk on it's hind legs. Twisty cats can and do walk on all fours, though not all of them have long enough legs to do so.

22. Four Ears Eight Legs Deformed Cats

23. Deformed Cats • Winged Cat

24. Deformed Cats • I have a pet cat that is a very unusual cat. Her name is Five Toes and is a black Burmese mix. I named her Five Toes because she is a polydactyl cat, but that isn't the unusual thing about her. The unusual thing is the fact that she has two tongues. Here is a photo of her along with a copy of a Ripley comic strip that she was featured in on February 14, 2005.Candy Whittington

25. Deformed Cats • A kitten born with only one eye and no nose. The kitten, a ragdoll breed, died after living for one day

26. Biggies

27. Biggies • Subject: Texas Rattlesnake/Serpent Sonnet de TexasTexas Rattlesnake! The joy of living in Texas. This snake was recently found at the old Turkey Creek gas plant located just south of the Alibates Turnoff on Highway 136 south of Fritch Texas. THAT'S JUST NORTH OF AMARILLO. A reminder that these creatures are actually out there and no matter what you believe, sometimes they should get not only prescriptive rights to be there but the full right of way!  9 feet, 1 inch - 97 lbs. No matter what anybody else tells you, kill the snake before you try to do anything else to it! It's the safest way for you and the snake doesn't care anymore

28. Biggies • Seems a sheep farmer was puzzled about the disappearance of some sheep on his farm. After a few weeks of sheep disappearing the farmer decided to put up an electric fence. • Now, I know we've all heard of people being eaten by snakes and I bet most of us have said, "If a snake tried to eat me, I'd blah, blah, blah and get away. Well, this is a Python and they're extremely aggressive and have a few teeth that they use to hold their prey while they wrap around them and then constrict. • Could you get away if this one bit you and held on with it's "few teeth?" the wires are 10 inches apart.

29. Biggies

30. One set of tusks grow up along the snout, theother set grows through the top of the muzzleand curves back toward the forehead. Eight legged piglet with both, male and female characteristics. Born in 1917 and lived for only a short time. Freaky Swine

31. Freaky Swine • Chris Griffin of Alapaha, Georgia killed a 12-foot-long, 1,000 pound wild hog with 9-inch tusks on his plantation.

32. Freaky Swine • Estimated the hog to weigh between 1,100 and 1,200 pounds, 8-inch tusk, neck was 42 inches around

33. Groundhog/Woodchuck Teeth

34. Five Legged Nutria • One leg growing out of its neck!

35. Multi-legged Cows

36. Multi-legged Cows

37. Multi-legged Cows

38. Green Rabbit • French genetic researchers created Alba for artist Eduardo Kac. Thanks to genesborrowed from a jellyfish, the albino rabbit glows green when placed under speciallighting. In regular light, Alba appears like any other furry white rabbit. But place herunder a black light, and her eyes, whiskers and fur glow a otherworldly green. "GFPBunny" (green fluorescent protein bunny).The French scientists created Alba using a process called zygote microinjection. Inthis process, the scientists plucked a fluorescent protein from a species of fluorescentjellyfish called Aequorea victoria. Then they modified the gene to make its glowingproperties twice as powerful. This gene, called EGFG (for enhanced genetic fluorescentgene) was then inserted into a fertilized rabbit egg cell that eventually grew into Alba.As the cell divided, the "green gene also replicated and made its way into every cellof Alba's body

39. Green Fish • "Glow in the dark" fish. these genetically modified fish were developed by a Taiwanese aquatic firm, Taikong Group. They are planning to reproduce these fish in numbers and sell them for pets.

40. Two Headed Turtles

41. Two Headed Turtles

42. Two Headed Snakes

43. Two Headed Snakes

44. Two Headed Animals • Died at a few days

45. 2 faced pig (alive at time of picture) A head was added to this dog just to prove that researchers could do it. Two Headed Animals

46. Normal Parakeet These are pictures of a common parakeet which has a genetic mutation called "feather duster." Feather Duster

47. Purple Bear • Pelusa, a 14 year old Polar Bear's hair turned purple as a result of medication that was given to it for a skin condition (dermatitis). Its hair coloring should only last for a few days before returning to its natural color. Pelusa lives in the Mendoza City Zoo in Argentina.

48. Dogs • Two legged dog

49. Dogs • Six legged dog

50. Dogs • Ugly Dog Sam, winner of many ugly dog contests. Died at 14 years of age.