A deer calf with two heads? At least the photos in this article are extremely amazing to look at and not at all commonplace.

There were a few questions about this picture asking whether it was fake:

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Source: today

The fact check

This white-tailed deer calf was found in the forest in Minnesota by mushroom pickers. Investigations at the University of Georgia revealed that the animal was stillborn.

A computer tomography revealed two completely separate cervical spines that merge into one spine in the chest area.

The heads are completely independent of each other, but there are only four legs. Two hearts and two spleens were established but only one gastrointestinal tract.

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This is an incomplete separation of identical twins, so-called conjoined twins .

The University of Georgia released the images because this deformity is rarely found in wild animals.

Unfortunately, this calf (a boy) was not viable after birth, but the situation in which it was found shows that the mother was still trying to care for the calf.

Siamese twins are quite common in domestic mammals and there are also many cases known in humans, although this is very rare in wild animals.

On the one hand, this is because the mother animals rarely survive the birth and serve as food for predators, just like conjoined twins that are born. But overall there seems to be less of a predisposition to this deformity.

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The best-known pair of human Siamese twins with a very similar expression are the twins Brittany and Abigail Hensel, who are now 28 years old and also share one body. The two became known through their own reality series on television, which followed the two young women.

Fun fact: The Hensel twins also come from Minnesota.

Result:

So: The double-headed Bambi is not a scary monster or a fake, but a very fascinating biological-genetic phenomenon that we actually all know.

Author: Anke M. – mimikama.org

Sources:

University of Gerogia
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today


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