7 legged deer story….

  • jon_jordan
    St. Paul, Mn
    Posts: 10908
    #205379

    Strange story off the AP. Slowed down or hit the gas.

    Wisconsin Hunter Bags Deer With 7 Legs
    (AP) FOND DU LAC, Wis. Rick Lisko hunts deer with a bow but got his most unusual one driving his truck down his mile-long driveway.

    The young buck had nub antlers — and seven legs. Lisko said it also had both male and female reproductive organs.

    “It was definitely a freak of nature,” Lisko said. “I guess it’s a real rarity.”

    He said he slowed down as the buck and two does ran across the driveway Nov. 22, but the buck ran under the truck and got hit.

    When he looked at the animal, he noticed three- to four-inch appendages growing from the rear legs. Later, he found a smaller appendage growing from one of the front legs.

    “It’s a pretty weird deer,” he said, describing the extra legs as resembling “crab pinchers.”

    “It kind of gives you the creeps when you look at it,” he said, but he thought he saw the appendages moving, as if they were functional, before the deer was hit.

    Warden Doug Bilgo of the state Department of Natural Resources came to Lisko’s property near Mud Lake in the town of Osceola to tag the deer.

    “I have never seen anything like that in all the years that I’ve been working as a game warden and being a hunter myself,” Bilgo said. “It wasn’t anything grotesque or ugly or anything. It was just unusual that it would have those little appendages growing out like that.”

    Bilgo took photos and sent information on the animal to DNR wildlife managers.

    John Hoffman of Eden Meat Market skinned the deer for Lisko, who wasn’t going to waste the venison from the animal.

    “And by the way, I did eat it,” Lisko said. “It was tasty.”

    (© 2006 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.)

    davenorton50
    Burlington, WI
    Posts: 1417
    #27165

    “It was tasty”!

    davenorton50
    Burlington, WI
    Posts: 1417
    #511222

    “It was tasty”!

    chappy
    Hastings, MN
    Posts: 4854
    #27166

    My guess it was an absobed twin. It absorbed it’s twin while in the womb.

    chappy
    Hastings, MN
    Posts: 4854
    #511225

    My guess it was an absobed twin. It absorbed it’s twin while in the womb.

    davenorton50
    Burlington, WI
    Posts: 1417
    #27170

    Quote:


    It absorbed it’s twin while in the womb.


    Gross…

    davenorton50
    Burlington, WI
    Posts: 1417
    #511252

    Quote:


    It absorbed it’s twin while in the womb.


    Gross…

    chappy
    Hastings, MN
    Posts: 4854
    #27174

    Not the first time it’s happened. I’ve heard of it happening in Humans also…..

    chappy
    Hastings, MN
    Posts: 4854
    #511288

    Not the first time it’s happened. I’ve heard of it happening in Humans also…..

    shayla
    Posts: 1399
    #27179

    I absorbed my twin at birth…he got my hair and I got his brains!

    shayla
    Posts: 1399
    #511309

    I absorbed my twin at birth…he got my hair and I got his brains!

    farmboy1
    Mantorville, MN
    Posts: 3668
    #27182

    It has to be true, it was on Paul Harvey at lunch today

    The morbidly curious guy in me would like to see pictures.

    farmboy1
    Mantorville, MN
    Posts: 3668
    #511349

    It has to be true, it was on Paul Harvey at lunch today

    The morbidly curious guy in me would like to see pictures.

    crosby-stick
    Crosby MN
    Posts: 613
    #27185

    Looks like you absobed your twin all the way CHAPPY!!

    crosby-stick
    Crosby MN
    Posts: 613
    #511363

    Looks like you absobed your twin all the way CHAPPY!!

    jon_jordan
    St. Paul, Mn
    Posts: 10908
    #27186

    Quote:


    The morbidly curious guy in me would like to see pictures.


    There were a couple pics on the KSTP.com website. Not very good pic, but here they are.

    jon_jordan
    St. Paul, Mn
    Posts: 10908
    #511381

    Quote:


    The morbidly curious guy in me would like to see pictures.


    There were a couple pics on the KSTP.com website. Not very good pic, but here they are.

    farmboy1
    Mantorville, MN
    Posts: 3668
    #27190

    Thanks Jon. That is really interesting.

    farmboy1
    Mantorville, MN
    Posts: 3668
    #511395

    Thanks Jon. That is really interesting.

    krisko
    Durand, WI
    Posts: 1364
    #27191

    Quote:


    but the buck ran under the truck and got hit.


    I know it was kind of a freak of nature, but do most deer try to run under trucks???

    krisko
    Durand, WI
    Posts: 1364
    #511397

    Quote:


    but the buck ran under the truck and got hit.


    I know it was kind of a freak of nature, but do most deer try to run under trucks???

    chappy
    Hastings, MN
    Posts: 4854
    #27296

    Quote:


    Looks like you absobed your twin all the way CHAPPY!!


    That’s not very nice Kevin……..I’ll pound ya when I see ya buddy!

    chappy
    Hastings, MN
    Posts: 4854
    #512195

    Quote:


    Looks like you absobed your twin all the way CHAPPY!!


    That’s not very nice Kevin……..I’ll pound ya when I see ya buddy!

    robby
    Quad Cities
    Posts: 2823
    #27746

    Actually that was just a mut deer, nobody wanted to pay to have the dew claws removed. Also when the absorbed twin or vanishing twin phenomena occurres, there are usually no birth defects noted in the surviving twin. This is very common in humans. Over 1/3 of pregnancies start with twins in humans.

    robby
    Quad Cities
    Posts: 2823
    #515865

    Actually that was just a mut deer, nobody wanted to pay to have the dew claws removed. Also when the absorbed twin or vanishing twin phenomena occurres, there are usually no birth defects noted in the surviving twin. This is very common in humans. Over 1/3 of pregnancies start with twins in humans.

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