A second piglet has been born with a 'penis' on its forehead - just days after the bizarre genetic mutation was discovered on a pig in China.
Earlier this week, a Chinese farmer was mobbed by crowds after his pig gave birth to a similarly strange looking animal.
The second, most recent deformed pig was born at an Aberdeenshire pig farm but is thought to have died at birth.
The Chinese piglet, which also featured a human face and later died, was said to have been part of a bizarre bidding war, reports the Daily Record.
Staff at the Scottish farm, who don't want to be identified, said that they had never seen such a serious deformity on a piglet.
Although defects were not unlikely in high volumes of piglets, this was the rarest they had ever seen.
A stockman, who wanted to be known only as Ian, said: "When I went in this morning I seen it lying there and I immediately thought 'I've seen that in the paper'.
"I wanted people to see that these things happen in Scotland too.
"It is very rare and no one here has ever seen anything like it before.
"The piglet was part of a litter of ten and the rest were fine, it probably died at birth and wouldn't have been able to suckle from its mother.
"I don't know if the pig in China would have been alive at all, as it wouldn't have been able to feed.
"At any one time there can be 19 litters of piglets, so you do get some withdeformities, but nothing like this."
SOURCE MIRROR.COM
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