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Animals / ??!! Today in KILL IT!! KILL IT DEAD!!!
Posted by Wm.™ Steven Humphrey on Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 2:35 PM
GAAAHHHH! A kitten with two faces, guys! Now, before you start barraging me with comments chastising me for my cruelty against two-faced freaks, just remember one thing: THIS KITTEN IS A TWO-FACED FREAK! Instead of being double cute, it's just double GAAAAHHH! Quick, somebody call Batkitten because Kitten Two-Face has busted out of Arkham Asylum! (If you laughed at that last joke, congrats, you've just been captured in my nerd trap.)
Hmmm... where was I? Oh, yeah... GAAAHHHHHH!!
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Fascinating. A chimera shy of complete absorption. They didn't specify whether a vet found two brains to be likely. I suspect so.
This is unusual, but this is a kitten. A kitten which seems to not be suffering and otherwise with a healthy body.
Kittens are, by the Geneva Convention Rider of 1985, adorable always. Well, with exception a Feline Centipede. That's just bad.
This is unusual, but this is a kitten. A kitten which seems to not be suffering and otherwise with a healthy body.
Kittens are, by the Geneva Convention Rider of 1985, adorable always. Well, with exception a Feline Centipede. That's just bad.
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No matter what the story, what the topic, every teevee reporter in the world has the same damn intonation.
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@15: Because we're all still suffering and have yet to let the healing turn to scar tissue. It's inequitable to have only one person here with nightmares of that which moves with many legs (but was never meant to). :P
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But what happens when man creates something oh so wrong?
Nature bites back in a big way
Good heavens! What I have done?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3BPlFfc-h…
Nature bites back in a big way
Good heavens! What I have done?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3BPlFfc-h…
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One thing that's interesting about animals is that they aren't concerned about handicaps or being different. They just do their thing and do their best. Being squicked out by disabilities or disfigurements is a human failing.
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@5 "A chimera shy of complete absorption"
did it say that in the video? i didn't watch it with sound. but this kind of thing can also result from a single embryo with a genetic or gene-regulatory problem.
did it say that in the video? i didn't watch it with sound. but this kind of thing can also result from a single embryo with a genetic or gene-regulatory problem.
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@23: I have no idea what I'm talking about, but I figure the chances of it being a severe conjoining of two embryos to the point of a near-total tissue absorption, à la chimera, were fairly likely.
Uh, IAMAB. :P
Uh, IAMAB. :P
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i have no idea what IAMAB means. but
1) "chimera" is not what you call conjoined fetuses, it's what you call emryos resulting from stem cell integration ie, you inject stem cells into an existing blastocyst and the result is a chimera and
2) two faces (google "facial duplication") but not two heads is a bajillion times more likely to be a sonic hedgehog (SHH) problem than a conjoined or absorbed twin.
1) "chimera" is not what you call conjoined fetuses, it's what you call emryos resulting from stem cell integration ie, you inject stem cells into an existing blastocyst and the result is a chimera and
2) two faces (google "facial duplication") but not two heads is a bajillion times more likely to be a sonic hedgehog (SHH) problem than a conjoined or absorbed twin.
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@25- Chimera isn't what you call obviously conjoined fetuses, but according that "I Am My Own Twin" documentary, it IS what you call an animal that results from two fetuses conjoining so fully that it looks like and functions as one animal. I might not be describing it right, but that was my thought as well. Like there is a continuum between chimera and conjoined twins and non-conjoined twins, and this thing falls under conjoined twins but very close to chimera. That was my guess just by looking at it, but now I'm going to google other causes.
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