In one of the farms near Nizhny Novgorod, a calf with five legs was born. Moreover, its owners are sure that the goby, together with the extra limb, received a gift from nature with high intuition and almost human intelligence
The miracle of nature was born in the farmer's courtyard Svetlana Arefieva. The fifth leg grows from the belly of the bull. The extra limb is "decorated" with two hooves and is very mobile. The kid uses it as a second tail: proudly brushes off flies - very convenient!
The name of the unusual animal was chosen throughout the street. We wanted to name it more original, so that the name reflects the uniqueness of the calf. In the end, we settled on Octopussy.
Hero - firefighter
“Actually, right after the birth, the neighbors did not take our boy very well,” recalls the owner of the bull, Svetlana Arefieva. - Some even said that the fifth leg is from the unclean. They offered to kill Octopus, put him to sleep. But I won't give it to anyone! Especially after it turned out that the kid is very smart. He saved our lives …
A few weeks ago, a barn caught fire at Svetlana's courtyard at night. The weather was dry and the fire could quickly spread to the house. But Octopus did not allow trouble.
- He raised such a storm that we woke up from his screams, jumped out into the street as if scalded, - says the farmer. - We managed to defend not only the house, but also the burning barn, where at that time other livestock also slept.
After the display of heroism by Octopus, the residents of Gorodets began to treat him as a local attraction. Now the aborigines unanimously tell how smart Octopus is - he understands everything perfectly! - and intellectually developed, unless he speaks humanly.
It's a freak
- The animal needs surgery! - the specialist of the Nizhny Novgorod city veterinary clinic Semyon Vanshev comments on the Gorodets miracle of nature. - There is a practice to remove such processes. For example, in Kharkov, a five-legged calf was also born, however, his leg was sticking out of his back.
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She was removed, and the chick Astra is now alive and well. And the Octopus can still be saved if the fifth limb has not fused with some important organ. Now he needs an examination, an X-ray. In general, such pathologies in cattle are rare. Most often, an unnecessary organ appears in babies whose parents are close relatives, or some kind of genetic failure has occurred in the body of a bull and a cow that gave birth to such offspring. We call such phenomena "ugliness." And why nature is so joking about its creatures, born in a fairly clean ecological place - one can only guess.
The owner of the Octopussy, on the contrary, considers her "son" not a joke. A gift of nature.
- Look how handsome he is! - Svetlana says. - And what eyes he has! In them, as a person, everything is visible - both the mind and the kind soul. Let everyone live in surprise. I am sure that Octopus will become the most enviable bull yet! And if the fifth leg does not grow, then we will do the operation.