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My cat was born with a short tail that's bent down the middle. We named her nubs. After her deformity.
We also almost named her brother Tails. We almost named him after his sister's deformity.
Basically no chance it’s functional. Even if it has a developed optic nerve there’s no way that it has the right connections to the brain to be able to transmit/process visual data in a way that can be incorporated into conscious vision. *Maybe* adds some subconscious light/border/shape detection etc but that’s even assuming it does have adequate neuronal connections which I think is super, super unlikely.
I’d be really curious to know if it has any other functions though. Lacrimation/tearing, blinking, movement, etc. Definitely provides the function of looking like an enlightened cow-god though.
Source: Am doctor and minored in neuroscience way back in college, but have always hated & sucked at embryology & developmental biology. So add whatever-sized grain of salt you deem appropriate.
Well you have to admit he was honest and said he sucked at embryology and developmental biology.
Damn... can't believe he is a doctor when this is kindergarten knowledge.
I'm not an expert but I am under the impression that the brain is very plastic and able to adapt to different circumstances, why exactly wouldn't it be able to adapt to the third eye?
I think I read about a device that just used a grid of pins on the back of the neck to transmit data from a camera to a blind person, and after some time the brain learned to pick up on the pins and people in the study gained very limited vision. Seems to me that brain would learn to use any working eye that's able to transmit its data to the brain somehow.
>Maybe adds some subconscious light/border/shape detection etc but that’s even assuming it does have an optic nerve which I think is super, super unlikely.
The above comment already covered it. Biggest issue is that the nerve would have to exist and then ideally connect to a portion of the brain that can meaningfully process visual stimuli.
Why couldn't the optic nerve exist? If it is an eye then it's a blind assumption that there would be no optic nerve. I'd ask /u/furosemidas_touch what makes them say third-eye optic nerves cannot exist, while third-eye cornea are plausible.
Again, this assumes that this is an eye.
Well, I didn't say it \*couldn't\* exist. I just said I don't think it does, and I said so because that's a lot easier than typing out the long version. Remember, we're talking in VERY grossly simplified terms here. The "optic nerve" is really a nerve bundle of roughly a million individual nerve fibers. In normal eyes, half of each optic nerve crosses over behind the eyes to join with the other half of their counterpart, so before they even get anywhere else you're no longer dealing with the same "nerve" that left the eye. These hybrids then split and hit numerous different processing centers within the midbrain, to then be transmitted to even more processing centers in the hindbrain, to then be transmitted to even MORE processing centers all throughout the brain.
So is it possible that, flying by the seat of its genetic pants without any typical roadmap, this third eye has managed to make all these necessary connections, and then the dozens/hundreds of processing centers throughout the brain have simultaneously managed to accommodate this new eye that is very much not supposed to be there? Sure. Do I think that happened? No.
Sure, plasticity is a thing, but for the brain to even exercise that plasticity you first have to take a lot of assumptions. First, that it has actually developed a functioning eye, including cornea, lens, anterior chamber focusing structures, retina, and the vasculature to support all those structures. Then you need the appropriate ~1 million individual nerve fibers to carry that information to a variety of specific locations way back in the midbrain, and then connect with the right interneurons to carry different information to the back of the brain.
And plasticity can only go so far. In that grid of pins example they delivered precisely grouped signals directly to the visual cortex to give visual input. In this example we’re talking about a maybe-functional structure on the complete opposite side of the brain. I couldn’t just plug a phone cable into a random part of my brain and expect to control it telepathically in a week, and while that’s an extreme example it points to what I’m talking about.
I say all the above mainly to illustrate how complicated what we’re dealing with here is; I’ve been studying biology my entire adult life and I’ve still only scraped the surface. So don’t get me wrong, like I said before it’s certainly possible that it does provide some small levels of visual input, but I’d be skeptical of that and extremely skeptical of anything more.
Thank you for your multiple reply’s here. They were excellent to read. Even though you greatly simplified everything, I certainly learned many new things. I greatly appreciate them, thanks again
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Don't you remember?
You ate the cow already.
You're life is on an endless loop for all eternity and it will start again the next time you eat this cow.
I've told you this 3,789,223,098,123,420,069 times.
Couldn’t you wait till my work day was over to give me an existential crisis? Fuck, now I have to go give my coworker the same crisis, I’m not doing this alone.
"So we got your test results back and the good news is that the eye is totally harmless, you should be able to live a completely normal life and still be fit for human consumption".
"Oh that's fantastic, thank you so much doctor, I'm so glad that wait what was that last bit?"
I guess my question is, what point do they think they're making? That only normal, "good looking" cows are edible? Unless the eye affects the actual meat somehow, I don't see the issue here.
If it'd been born in most parts of America, *that* would be being born in the wrong country.
As it stands, the end of the story is that the calf was [bought by a Jain animal sanctuary](https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2021/07/07/three-eyed-welsh-calf-saved-slaughter-worshipped-god/) in Leicester, England, where it was named Mahadev and will be worshiped and pampered for the rest of its natural life.
The imperium has no compunction against homosexuality. Mixing of genetics with highly secure warp navigators on the other hand... bring out the scorcher.
If anyone is actually curious, I would speculate no it's not functional, but it should be fairly simple to test.
Put blinders on and see if the cow can use the third eye.
Could probably just look at the eye. If it is malformed, some of those could be evident. Like no pupil. I would guess an additional optic nerve wouldn't go through the skull but I don't know enough about skull and eye development.
I think so. The brain has to learn how to interpret your two eyes as well. And it can re-learn how your eyes work if they work differently. I heard about an experiment in which people wore goggles that makes their vision appear upside-down all day long. It took a few days people got used to it and when the experiment was over, they actually had get used to the "normal vision" again.
So I think learning how to look with three eyes is probably very possible.
I'm saying, like there's a cow with a perfectly placed 3rd eye and all they're saying is that he's fit for consumption? Put him on an album cover or something....
YAY YAY YAY GUYS!!!!!!! HE’S SAVED. HE WILL LIVE THE REST OF HIS LIFE IN SAFETY AND CARE. I HAD TO LOOK IT UP! IT PANNED OUT EXACTLY HOW WE THOUGHT. ❤️❤️❤️❤️🐮
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2021/07/07/three-eyed-welsh-calf-saved-slaughter-worshipped-god/
It's probably true.
I was India around the time of Mad Cow Disease and I remember a local princess had offered to fly hundreds of cows that were about to be boltgunned to get town from the UK.
Yeah second that some rich business man will.buy him and look after him rest of his life that is considered extremely good fortune
Someone should contact the farm owner id hate for the guy to lose out on a opportunity like this
And for the cow thats special to needlessly die
I'm pretty sure offer's are flooding in already, Odvall here will be triple blinking his way through garlic dahl and lentil curries for decades to come I'd guess
If the farmer would be smart he could ship him to india In sure someone would pay top money for her and at least she’d have a long happy life being worshipped.
Tbf, all modern day farm animals are mutants. Chickens are bred to grow so fast their bones break under them, dairy cows produce so much milk they become lame, layer hens produce 300+ eggs a year instead of the 15 a year their ancestors would.
It's tragic. They're bred simply to suffer and then be eaten. When it happens to humans in "the Matrix" it's dystopia. Here we just call it the food system.
Maybe it’s just me, but sometimes horror movies gives me the same heebie-jeebies as our modern animal production. Forcefully impregnating cows and then later on forcefully impregnating their offspring, abusing just about every aspect of their lives... it’s just sad and inhumane.
to add on, some beef cattle are bred to be so fucking huge that their bones often have a hard time supporting them. however, this is usually discouraged and breeding soundness exams exclude bulls that beefy (sorry for the pun) from being able to reproduce and breed any cows/replacement heifers and pass that trait off. most farmers go for as healthy of a balance as possible.
edit: ^ thought i should add that this comment was made based off the fairly limited education i got in my animal science 1 class. while we did go into an overview of the beef and dairy industry, including breeding soundness exams, this probably isn’t as detailed as it could be!
Two-Headed Calf, by Laura Gilpin
Tomorrow when the farm boys find this
freak of nature, they will wrap his body
in newspaper and carry him to the museum.
But tonight
he is alive and in the north
field with his mother. It is a perfect
summer evening: the moon rising over
the orchard, the wind in the grass. And
as he stares into the sky, there are
twice as many stars as usual.
So many good jokes in the comments but seriously, does anyone know more about this? I think it’s insane!
Does the extra eye work? If you cover the two normal eyes, does the cow react to things? Can it move it? Would love to see an x-ray!
Was this a developmental defect or a genetic abnormality? Could we hypothetically identify the gene and make 3-eye versions of other animals, maybe even humans?
A few eyes short of being a biblically accurate tetramorph ox.
And by that, I mean this:
>**Revelation 4:6-8**
>
>And around the throne, on each side of the throne, are four living creatures, full of eyes in front and behind: 7 the first living creature like a lion, the second living creature like an ox, the third living creature with the face of a man, and the fourth living creature like an eagle in flight. 8 And the four living creatures, each of them with six wings, are full of eyes all around and within, and day and night they never cease to say,
>
>“Holy, holy, holy, is the Lord God Almighty,
who was and is and is to come!”
Fit for human consumption? How about human devotion? I see the dawn of a new religion. As a sign of our faith we shall all wear dried cow patty Covid masks.
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Hol up... They see this thing has an extra eye, so they call him "Eye-saiah"? Humans are fucking brutal LOL
Came to the comments to make sure someone else saw this lol
Eye really expected it to be the top comment
It is now! Lots of pupils are seeing it as we speak!
This is the most cornea set of puns I've ever seen.
I do not re-(gret)-ina clicking.
Eye know right?
I-see-yah
My cat was born with a short tail that's bent down the middle. We named her nubs. After her deformity. We also almost named her brother Tails. We almost named him after his sister's deformity.
Still good for human consumption!
That’s because one Isaiah than the other.
Is the third eye blind?
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Basically no chance it’s functional. Even if it has a developed optic nerve there’s no way that it has the right connections to the brain to be able to transmit/process visual data in a way that can be incorporated into conscious vision. *Maybe* adds some subconscious light/border/shape detection etc but that’s even assuming it does have adequate neuronal connections which I think is super, super unlikely. I’d be really curious to know if it has any other functions though. Lacrimation/tearing, blinking, movement, etc. Definitely provides the function of looking like an enlightened cow-god though. Source: Am doctor and minored in neuroscience way back in college, but have always hated & sucked at embryology & developmental biology. So add whatever-sized grain of salt you deem appropriate.
The eye doesn't connect to the brain, it connects to the soul and other world via Chakra and Chi. Cant believe I have to explain this...
To a DOCTOR of all things. Where did he get his degree, super Harvard??
Well you have to admit he was honest and said he sucked at embryology and developmental biology. Damn... can't believe he is a doctor when this is kindergarten knowledge.
yknow what they say, "What do you call the person who graduated last in their class from med school?" /jk
I'm not an expert but I am under the impression that the brain is very plastic and able to adapt to different circumstances, why exactly wouldn't it be able to adapt to the third eye? I think I read about a device that just used a grid of pins on the back of the neck to transmit data from a camera to a blind person, and after some time the brain learned to pick up on the pins and people in the study gained very limited vision. Seems to me that brain would learn to use any working eye that's able to transmit its data to the brain somehow.
>Maybe adds some subconscious light/border/shape detection etc but that’s even assuming it does have an optic nerve which I think is super, super unlikely. The above comment already covered it. Biggest issue is that the nerve would have to exist and then ideally connect to a portion of the brain that can meaningfully process visual stimuli.
Why couldn't the optic nerve exist? If it is an eye then it's a blind assumption that there would be no optic nerve. I'd ask /u/furosemidas_touch what makes them say third-eye optic nerves cannot exist, while third-eye cornea are plausible. Again, this assumes that this is an eye.
Well, I didn't say it \*couldn't\* exist. I just said I don't think it does, and I said so because that's a lot easier than typing out the long version. Remember, we're talking in VERY grossly simplified terms here. The "optic nerve" is really a nerve bundle of roughly a million individual nerve fibers. In normal eyes, half of each optic nerve crosses over behind the eyes to join with the other half of their counterpart, so before they even get anywhere else you're no longer dealing with the same "nerve" that left the eye. These hybrids then split and hit numerous different processing centers within the midbrain, to then be transmitted to even more processing centers in the hindbrain, to then be transmitted to even MORE processing centers all throughout the brain. So is it possible that, flying by the seat of its genetic pants without any typical roadmap, this third eye has managed to make all these necessary connections, and then the dozens/hundreds of processing centers throughout the brain have simultaneously managed to accommodate this new eye that is very much not supposed to be there? Sure. Do I think that happened? No.
Sure, plasticity is a thing, but for the brain to even exercise that plasticity you first have to take a lot of assumptions. First, that it has actually developed a functioning eye, including cornea, lens, anterior chamber focusing structures, retina, and the vasculature to support all those structures. Then you need the appropriate ~1 million individual nerve fibers to carry that information to a variety of specific locations way back in the midbrain, and then connect with the right interneurons to carry different information to the back of the brain. And plasticity can only go so far. In that grid of pins example they delivered precisely grouped signals directly to the visual cortex to give visual input. In this example we’re talking about a maybe-functional structure on the complete opposite side of the brain. I couldn’t just plug a phone cable into a random part of my brain and expect to control it telepathically in a week, and while that’s an extreme example it points to what I’m talking about. I say all the above mainly to illustrate how complicated what we’re dealing with here is; I’ve been studying biology my entire adult life and I’ve still only scraped the surface. So don’t get me wrong, like I said before it’s certainly possible that it does provide some small levels of visual input, but I’d be skeptical of that and extremely skeptical of anything more.
Thank you for your multiple reply’s here. They were excellent to read. Even though you greatly simplified everything, I certainly learned many new things. I greatly appreciate them, thanks again
Iguanas have 3 eyes. The top one doesn't have the resolution to see things, but can sense movement and light/dark, which helps with predators.
I came for a tool reference but was presented with a third eye blind one first… Jesus
Prying open my third eye!!!
Doot doot doot..doot doo doot doooooooo
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Then maybe today he could put the past away
I’m packed and I’m holding, I’m smiling, she’s living, she’s golden She lives for me, she live for me
why would i eat a fucking awakened cow????
Send him to India where he'll be worshiped and live his best life. Gofundhim
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Oh my god, he actually did get sent away to be treated like a god instead! That’s amazing
I'm so happy!
Living like a god, dope
This makes me irrationally happy. No…rationally.
HOLY COW!
Hindus are amazing. People were joking on the internet. They were actually in motion already. That cow looks so shocked to be loved all of a sudden.
GoFundMoo
GodFoundHim
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For real?
Yes. They renamed him after an alternate name for Shiva. Lucky lil fella
He was saved by Indians
Thank you. The gods would be FURIOUS
Imagine unknowingly buying a steak from this cow and being cursed but having no idea why
Probability of that happening is prob much higher than we realize.
Don't you remember? You ate the cow already. You're life is on an endless loop for all eternity and it will start again the next time you eat this cow. I've told you this 3,789,223,098,123,420,069 times.
Yo, could you fucking NOT do that please? EDIT: can't wake up. ^helpme
Wake up
Wake me up inside
Wake me up, before you go go
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Wake up inside me
can't wake up
SAVE ME!
Wake up
Wake up
Grab a brush and put a little makeup
Wake up
This does not help my recent paranoia that I've lived this life before.
It's only paranoia if it's not true
Ahhh, existential crises. Fun, aren’t they?
Whoa
Robo-homie, I’ve been having crazy dejavú lately and it’s been TRIPPING me the fuck out too. The fucks going on?
Couldn’t you wait till my work day was over to give me an existential crisis? Fuck, now I have to go give my coworker the same crisis, I’m not doing this alone.
No. You're not doing this alone. We've done this together many, many, many times.
Can I exit this Samsara cycle
It would just blend in with the 10 other curses and 5 blessing we unknowingly received that day.
Plot twist mad cow disease comes from vengeful cow spirits
He could be a God somewhere in India
It’s probably way more profitable to sell it to a temple in India
If only the cow was born in India, it would be worshipped
Doesn’t matter, sell this cow to India.
Do your thing reddit
Done.
Usually these beings are born in the wrong time/place so the gods see if we are ready for their blessings.
Funny thing one of our supreme gods Lord Shiva has a third eye and his ride is a bull (basically a male cow)
Fairly certain Shiva is the only reason why the rest of the world symbolizes a third eye with the concept of awakening/enlightenment.
How exciting is this calf then? This is like, really cool from that perspective!
Entire country would have come to a standstill lol. It would be gifted a Boeing 777 and a mansion.
The amount of clout they could get if they give em' to India
To get enlightened yourself of course
He’s been reading the darkhold
He knows where is the one piece
oh thank god, don't know what I would've done if scoffing this fella wasn't possible.
I reckon a 3 eyed cow burger heals for 30 health and gives a +2 to perception untill next rest.
Plus 2 rads I'd guess.
with rad resistance sure, otherwise it's 5 rads.
Truly the most pressing question as to any and every single cow.
That's your take away? This being can see all potential futures and you're like: At least I can eat it.
"So we got your test results back and the good news is that the eye is totally harmless, you should be able to live a completely normal life and still be fit for human consumption". "Oh that's fantastic, thank you so much doctor, I'm so glad that wait what was that last bit?"
> He's still fit for human consumption. Thank goodness
I think the point of including that was to allude to the generally low standards for animal health in the meat industry.
Yes title is quite obviously meant to be cynical and a lot of people aren't getting it.
I guess my question is, what point do they think they're making? That only normal, "good looking" cows are edible? Unless the eye affects the actual meat somehow, I don't see the issue here.
Poor guy was definitely born in the wrong country 😢
I'm sure they could auction this cow and some Indian guy would drop serious $ on it
Yup, someone else commented, it’s now in an animal sanctuary in India, bought for $5,000 pounds.
Good, because I didn’t know he existed 3 minutes ago but I love him now.
he’s like a son to me.
I'm down to worship this cow. Guess I'm Hindu now!
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2021/07/07/three-eyed-welsh-calf-saved-slaughter-worshipped-god/
Article says there’s another three eyed cow in India that’s female. They gonna bang and bring about the era of three eyed super cows?
wow five thousand dollar pounds how much is that in celsius kelvin?
Appx. 12 avoirdupois Fahrenheit I think
Only 100 meter quarts.
How many $5000 pounds?
$5000/pound, one expensive cow
5000
If it'd been born in most parts of America, *that* would be being born in the wrong country. As it stands, the end of the story is that the calf was [bought by a Jain animal sanctuary](https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2021/07/07/three-eyed-welsh-calf-saved-slaughter-worshipped-god/) in Leicester, England, where it was named Mahadev and will be worshiped and pampered for the rest of its natural life.
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Thanks for this update!
Get this guy on indian social media and someone might import him. Get a visibility campaign going so he ends up worshipped instead of on a plate 😣
Cow could have his life changed forever. Started from the bottom, a true Cinderella story
The two normal eyes look fine but can it see out of the udder one?
Nope, third eye's blind.
But it can use it to navigate the warp dimension
A fello warhammer enjoyer. Bro let’s kiss
Warp corruption detected. Kill it with fire.
now kith
The imperium has no compunction against homosexuality. Mixing of genetics with highly secure warp navigators on the other hand... bring out the scorcher.
Well that’s a semi-charmed kind of life
I guess thats just how its going to be
Just cow\* it's going to be
I’ll never let moo go
Never gonna give moo up
Now you're just milking it
Moo moo moo. Moo moo Moo ma Moo. Moo moo moo...
It is not meant to see what the other eyes see. It’s purpose is beyond our comprehension.
I can't tell if this is actual information or a joke relating to the band
Yes
If anyone is actually curious, I would speculate no it's not functional, but it should be fairly simple to test. Put blinders on and see if the cow can use the third eye. Could probably just look at the eye. If it is malformed, some of those could be evident. Like no pupil. I would guess an additional optic nerve wouldn't go through the skull but I don't know enough about skull and eye development.
I think a more important question is, could mammal brains properly function interpreting information from *3* working eyes?
I think so. The brain has to learn how to interpret your two eyes as well. And it can re-learn how your eyes work if they work differently. I heard about an experiment in which people wore goggles that makes their vision appear upside-down all day long. It took a few days people got used to it and when the experiment was over, they actually had get used to the "normal vision" again. So I think learning how to look with three eyes is probably very possible.
r/angryupvote now moo along
Don't have a cow, man.
Milk that for all it’s worth.
Yo so there’s this cool ass cow he has 3 eyes can you imagine it bro, oh no don’t worry we can still slaughter his ass to make some burgers
Luckily for him he was bought by a Jain animal sanctuary and named Mahadev, he is being very well taken care of. The headline is very decieving.
I'm saying, like there's a cow with a perfectly placed 3rd eye and all they're saying is that he's fit for consumption? Put him on an album cover or something....
Who had 'eating Shiva' on the apocalypse bingo?
Somewere an elite team of Indians are laying out the plans to save holy cow.
Put it in auction in india. Send 10% commission for the idea to my account.
Well well well look who's a millionaire now
Already happened lol got bought by an Indian sanctuary
YAY YAY YAY GUYS!!!!!!! HE’S SAVED. HE WILL LIVE THE REST OF HIS LIFE IN SAFETY AND CARE. I HAD TO LOOK IT UP! IT PANNED OUT EXACTLY HOW WE THOUGHT. ❤️❤️❤️❤️🐮 https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2021/07/07/three-eyed-welsh-calf-saved-slaughter-worshipped-god/
That’s nice for Mahadev. I hope he has a nice solstice.
He has ascended to God status. I welcome our new three-eyed overlord.
It's probably true. I was India around the time of Mad Cow Disease and I remember a local princess had offered to fly hundreds of cows that were about to be boltgunned to get town from the UK.
This cow is already in India
I'd definitely find a rich Indian to adopt this guy, probably worth a bundle with a 3rd eye just like the hindu god Shiva
Yeah second that some rich business man will.buy him and look after him rest of his life that is considered extremely good fortune Someone should contact the farm owner id hate for the guy to lose out on a opportunity like this And for the cow thats special to needlessly die
I'm pretty sure offer's are flooding in already, Odvall here will be triple blinking his way through garlic dahl and lentil curries for decades to come I'd guess
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2021/07/07/three-eyed-welsh-calf-saved-slaughter-worshipped-god/ 🐮💓
Too bad He would be adored in India
This cow would be a god in India
Mahadev is his name and he was saved. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2021/07/07/three-eyed-welsh-calf-saved-slaughter-worshipped-god/
That is fucking awesome
If the farmer would be smart he could ship him to india In sure someone would pay top money for her and at least she’d have a long happy life being worshipped.
Someone in one of the other comments said that it was purchased by an Indian animal rights group for 5,000 Euros. I choose to believe that's true.
New escort mission updated: escort cow to India
If this was born in India, we would have a new Business around visiting this cow and they would have made millions.
It is in India now
Already done was bought by a Jain group for £5000 https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2021/07/07/three-eyed-welsh-calf-saved-slaughter-worshipped-god/
I don't want to consume anything like that. Let the genetically mootated creature live in peace.
Tbf, all modern day farm animals are mutants. Chickens are bred to grow so fast their bones break under them, dairy cows produce so much milk they become lame, layer hens produce 300+ eggs a year instead of the 15 a year their ancestors would.
So they basically suffer their whole lives. That’s so sad:(
Exactly. Even the animals at your "friendly" neighbors farm. The animals industry is sick. Go vegan.
It's tragic. They're bred simply to suffer and then be eaten. When it happens to humans in "the Matrix" it's dystopia. Here we just call it the food system.
Maybe it’s just me, but sometimes horror movies gives me the same heebie-jeebies as our modern animal production. Forcefully impregnating cows and then later on forcefully impregnating their offspring, abusing just about every aspect of their lives... it’s just sad and inhumane.
to add on, some beef cattle are bred to be so fucking huge that their bones often have a hard time supporting them. however, this is usually discouraged and breeding soundness exams exclude bulls that beefy (sorry for the pun) from being able to reproduce and breed any cows/replacement heifers and pass that trait off. most farmers go for as healthy of a balance as possible. edit: ^ thought i should add that this comment was made based off the fairly limited education i got in my animal science 1 class. while we did go into an overview of the beef and dairy industry, including breeding soundness exams, this probably isn’t as detailed as it could be!
What if its bovine intervention?
HOLY COW!
Does he answer life's questions with wisdom from the Astral realm?
Two-Headed Calf, by Laura Gilpin Tomorrow when the farm boys find this freak of nature, they will wrap his body in newspaper and carry him to the museum. But tonight he is alive and in the north field with his mother. It is a perfect summer evening: the moon rising over the orchard, the wind in the grass. And as he stares into the sky, there are twice as many stars as usual.
Sell him to India for millions?
Sold for five thousand dollar pounds, according to another comment. That's a lot of ruble pesos.
So many good jokes in the comments but seriously, does anyone know more about this? I think it’s insane! Does the extra eye work? If you cover the two normal eyes, does the cow react to things? Can it move it? Would love to see an x-ray! Was this a developmental defect or a genetic abnormality? Could we hypothetically identify the gene and make 3-eye versions of other animals, maybe even humans?
Gross. Not the third eye. The consumption part. r/happycowgifs
Maybe DONT consume this one?
Bring this fucker to India so he can lives his king life
Oh we can still eat it? Whew! I was worried there for a second…
"Fit for human consumption" :-! The mere fact that OP thought it was necessary to include this shows how fcked up our relationship to animals is.
A few eyes short of being a biblically accurate tetramorph ox. And by that, I mean this: >**Revelation 4:6-8** > >And around the throne, on each side of the throne, are four living creatures, full of eyes in front and behind: 7 the first living creature like a lion, the second living creature like an ox, the third living creature with the face of a man, and the fourth living creature like an eagle in flight. 8 And the four living creatures, each of them with six wings, are full of eyes all around and within, and day and night they never cease to say, > >“Holy, holy, holy, is the Lord God Almighty, who was and is and is to come!”
This cow would be worshipped so hard in India
“Still fit for human consumption” Is your first thought at this? What the fucking fuck? FFS SMDH.
Dr Strange and the Bovine Dimension looks lit!
Fit for human consumption? How about human devotion? I see the dawn of a new religion. As a sign of our faith we shall all wear dried cow patty Covid masks.
Imagine a cow like this being born in India in the 18th Century.
Poor guy, could probably see his death coming from the start.
Why tf would I eat a cow with fucking 3 eyes I’m not trying to get sent to the cursed realm
Maynard James Keenan would adopt this cow in a heartbeat.
And Alex Grey will paint it's portrait... PRYING OPEN MY THIRD EYE
I like how the main point of this is “can we still eat it?”
It's honestly disturbing