At the Giraudo family’s cattle farm, located near the town of La Palestina in Cordoba, Argentina, a calf with two heads was born. This was reported by the specialized website ‘TodoLechería’.
The Giraudos’ farm produces more than 12,000 liters of milk per day and their industry has been growing rapidly, so they take care of many cattle all the time. However, the case of this calf was exceptional.
According to the media, the delivery was very difficult for the establishment’s workers, who wanted to keep it safe. Nevertheless, the animal died a few minutes after birth and its mother died two days later.
Veterinarian Elio Armitano, who works at the Giraudos’ farm, pointed out that the cow had given birth to a two-headed calf and that “it is a teratology, a congenital malformation and that there is no consanguinity as the cause of this malformation.”
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A calf with two heads was born in Córdoba https://t.co/fNpUDxhIwt A calf with two heads was born in a dairy located in the city of La Palestina, in the province of Córdoba and surprised the inhabitants. An expert explained why it happens.
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“The study of congenital defects and their etiology is called teratology. The term teratogen comes from the Greek teratos, which means monster. The word ‘congenital’ indicates conditions existing at or before birth,” Armitano specified.
“Two-headed or three-headed animals are, as a whole, the only type of multi-headed creature seen in the real world and are formed by the same process as conjoined twins: all of them are the result of the secondary union of two originally separate monozygotic embryonic discs”, he added.
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Other cases
Although this phenomenon is rare, it is not the first time that a calf has been born with two heads.
According to the news agency ‘Antena 3’, the experts affirm that only one in 400 million calves worldwide is born with this condition.
In addition, the aforementioned media reported, in 2015, the case of a cow raised in a livestock industry in Baker County, which gave birth to a female calf with two heads.
The animal, who received the name of Anabelle, was born very weak and the vets only gave her a life expectancy of 40 days after delivery.
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During the time she was alive, her owners had to give her milk directly into her mouth, since she could not feed herself, due to their heads being too heavy and not allowing her to walk or move.
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*With information from La Nación (GDA – Argentina).
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