Unusual Heads on Newborn Turkish Lamb and Zimbabwe Goat

“I’ve seen mutations with cows and sheep before. I’ve seen a one-eyed calf, a two-headed calf, a five-legged calf. But when I saw this youngster I could not believe my eyes.”

- Erhan Elibol, D.V.M., who performed Cesarean section
to extract newborn lamb too big for natural birth

February 24, 2010  Izmir, Turkey, and Maboleni, Lower Gweru, Zimbabwe - In the first week of September 2009, New Zimbabwe.com reported a goat was born with a human-like head. Then four and a half months later, on January 12, 2010, Pravda.Ru reported that a “sheep gives birth to human-faced lamb in Turkey.” The following are summaries of those reports with available photographs taken before the newborns were killed and burned in each case because of local resident fears about the “mutations.”