A rare "deer with two heads" is found in the world

Coupled twinRefers to the twins to which the body is connected, and it is said that there are cases in which twins are joined by one pair to about 50,000 to 200,000 pairs in human beings. It is very rare for coupled twins to be found in nature animals, but it is reported that "two headed deer" was found in the Minnesota forest.

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In May 2016, a man who was hunting mushrooms in the forest near the Mississippi River in Minnesota found a carcass of a single fawn lying under the grass. It is not unusual to merely discover the dead body of a fawn, but that fawn had two heads.

Fawn with whitish spots on the whole body was about 60 cm in length and was well cleaned and was in a beautiful state. It seems that he was already dead at the time of discovery, but it seems that there was no case that corruption has progressed for a long time since death. However, it is said that the appearance of a deer of a fondle was not seen in the surroundings.

Discovered menMinnesota Natural Resources BureauAs a result of researchers studying the body of Fawn, it was confirmed that the fawn were individuals bred from pregnant deer. University of GeorgiaGino D'AngeloAssociate Professor says, "The discovery of a double-headed deer is a very valuable discovery so far that it can not even evaluate its scarcity."


The type of fawn isOglegicaAssociate professors Dangelo et alCTandMRII scanned and investigated the fawns of the coupled twins. As a result of the MRI scan, the deer has two heads onespineIt was found that the spine was branching on the way towards the two necks.

Also, when we performed dissection to investigate the internal organs structure, a fawn has onePericardiumI also found that I have two hearts inside. In addition, each neck has its own separate esophagus andForestomachThere were two, but it seems that one of the gastrointestinal tracts continuing from the forestomach was closed.

According to Associate Professor Dangelo, "There is no sign of sucking air in the lungs of fawn, so it is considered that the fawn died soon after birth or before it was born, but it was thought that the fur has been firmly covered I can tell that the mother's instinct of the deer is strong. "

It is very rare for mammalian coupled twins to be born in nature, according to the data collected from 1671 to 2008, only 19 mammalian coupled twins have been reported. Among them, there are two reports of the same oranges as the individuals discovered this time, but in both cases it seems that parents deer and fawn died when joined twin fawns were in the womb, The twin births are given as usual, and the deer was alive, so this case is very rare, "said Associate Professor Dangelo.