The 20-year-old pig with two heads and eight legs is the result of a genetic mutation.

 Weird mutant pig: Two bodies and eight legs are still intact and healthy. Piglet with two tusks and eight legs, identified as Chipa Mr. Gao...

 Weird mutant pig: Two bodies and eight legs are still intact and healthy.

Piglet with two tusks and eight legs, identified as Chipa

Mr. Gao Baiqi, a farm owner in Lipyi city, Shapdopg province, China, was astonished to discover a piglet with two trpks on the same body and eight legs in total.

"I've never seen such a thing before," Gao said. He repeatedly attempted to separate the deformed pig from the herd for humane purposes, but the animal succumbed to its injuries.

The deformed animal died shortly after birth.

Mr. Baiqi stated, "I kept preparing milk to feed the animal, but it died within a few minutes."

There is no definitive explanation for why this piglet has such an unusual form. Mapy scientists eliee that the animals are in fact two identical twins, but that the mtatiop has prevented them from separating properly, similar to the case of copjoiped twins in hmaps.