(China Daily)
Updated: 2008-04-11 10:23

A sow gave birth to a two-headed piglet in a village near Jilin city, Jilin province, on Sunday.

"The sow gave birth to 13 other piglets - all were normal except this one," Fu, the sow's owner, said. "The two-headed piglet has two mouths and can eat with both of them. But it can't stand up by itself because it's not strong enough to raise both its heads."

"An abnormal piglet like this is unlikely to live very long because this is the result of an abnormal cell division, or possibly an unknown adverse environmental factor that affected the sow's pregnancy," an expert told Fu on Monday.