The adorable fluffy white kitten was born exactly the same as its brothers - four legs, a head and a tail. But a month later, amazing things began to happen to him
- Stroking the baby on the back, I suddenly felt the seals, - his mistress, a resident of the Chinese city of Chongqing, marvels. - Bumps grew every day. After four weeks, they turned into two branches, almost ten centimeters long.
Now on the kitten's body there are two full-fledged-looking hairy wings. The owner, outright scared for the pet's health, took him to the veterinary clinic. Doctors, seeing an unusual patient, at first experienced shock, but after examining, they assured that nothing threatened his health, and that he was developing like an ordinary representative of the feline family.
Indeed, the wonderful fluffy creature feels great and enjoys excessive attention to it. And when it is stroked, it not only hums rather, but also moves its "wings". And then it seems that he is about to take off with delight.
By the way, the
Chongqing cat is not the only one of its kind. Recently, a similar mustachioed-striped "flyer" appeared in the Chinese city of Xianyang.
And the first such case was recorded in 1975, when in Manchester Park, builders noticed a cat with two long fluffy wings hanging from its back. For a long time, zoologists could not find an explanation for the phenomenon. Only in the early 1990s did scientists find out that the presence of such growths on the back of an animal is explained by a genetic disease - cutaneous asthenia. In individuals suffering from it, the skin becomes excessively elastic and curls into long folds. These growths are covered with hair. If muscle tissue is present in the structure of the growths, then they can move "up and down"