Unicorn Cow Discovered in China

This cow looks like half unicorn it has a single horn sticking out of its head. Is this some kind of genetic throw back from unicrons or something..

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kx

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Holy Cow!!!

I couldn't resist

Quick make a wish!!!

That thing is wicked! Unicorn cows? Whats next? A pig-bear-man? Mybad i mean man-bear-pig

Nice find

Strange looking bugger. Probably just a genetic anomaly. Cows occasionally have extra teats, sometimes (rarely) even legs. But this seems pretty rare. The only other ruminate that Ive ever heard of having a horn like prjection from their forehead is a giraffe.

Not trying to be technical but the cow really can't be called a unicorn. ti has three horns so it really would be called a Tricorn

a unicow...how interesting.

yep...this is evolution...breed it and maybe it will pop out a whole new species to be cataloged.

Originally posted by Starrunner

Not trying to be technical but the cow really can't be called a unicorn. ti has three horns so it really would be called a Tricorn

no, your thinking of a unihorn

the middle horn is a corn...because its magical

Originally posted by purplemer
This cow looks like half unicorn it has a single horn sticking out of its head. Is this some kind of genetic throw back from unicrons or something..

www.gearlog.com...

kx

I don't know if it's real or not but I do know a dairy farmer in New Hampshire who has a bull with one horn. Maybe the two should get together???

I absolutely love this...ATS is always there to make me laugh when i need it the most...
This is a good distraction from all the other crap going on ..S&F!! Thanks for posting!!

I've always been a big fan of unicorns so i really enjoy seeing stuff like this...wish there were more posts in this forum with pictures, its one of my favorite forums.

I reckon it's probably developmental - perhaps chimaeric embryos or something.

If it does turn out to have a genetic basis, I think we can rest assured that there will soon be a breed of cows suffering from all manner of cancers and malformations, but the minor drawbacks of inbreeding won't matter because they'll have a pretty third horn.

See what all the majik nutrients put in the live stock can do lol

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If they were all like that, it would certainly make the running of the bulls in Spain more interesting.

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THis is cool,but it is not rare to find.

Originally posted by TheWill
I reckon it's probably developmental - perhaps chimaeric embryos or something.

Waaah? What does this have to do, even remotely, with chimeric embryos?

Originally posted by Thain Esh Kelch

Originally posted by TheWill
I reckon it's probably developmental - perhaps chimaeric embryos or something.

Waaah? What does this have to do, even remotely, with chimeric embryos?

Basically the middle horn is infact the horn of a twin cow that has merged with the other cow during the embryonic stage of life... it happens alot with Cows and other livestock, you get cows and donkeys with extra legs, heads coming out of their backs or chests etc. Its two animals fused into one another in various levels of severity, the extra limbs are all that is left of twin and are more or less superfluous. Happens with humans also (ives seen old footage of an asian man who had a second 'face' on the side of his head)... in fact it happens with almost all animals really.

Id say this is what this Tricorn cow is... a cow with the only remaining remnants of its twin that was absorbed into its own body being this central horn.