Personal Teratology (or the museum of the horrors)

(or.....we have a formidable job.!)

Siamese lambs////////////////////

(Siamese lambs extracts by Caesarean) death-born!...

these two Siamese twins were joined by cranium, neck and sternum . Our monster thus had 8 legs...


Before the birth, Mummification is possible...



mummy
Mummy 4 month old =20cm

See mummy's
on waking ?!?!
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The MONSTER generally met in obstetrics veterinary surgeon is in fact Célosomian which is characterized by a thoracic and abdominal absence of closing , leaving the internal organs of these cavities without protection... (ten cases in 20 years of exercise)

I have two pictures off célosomian......Let me an E-mail to get them !


Another encountered case is the hydrocephalous (the cranium of the animal is increased by volume)

hydrocephalous


A difficult case : ARTHROGRIPPOSIS ...

embryotomie arthrogrippose reconstitution

The pieces after operation..............................And the reconstitution of the calve !!


Muscular Hypertrophy !! ...unilateral !


One also meets facial malformations related with the hare nozzle

harelip 1 harelip 2

Fissure off palate


And of curiosities.....(who are in fact due to the complete near junction of two Siamese twins)

double tail

Double tail.................................... And lower Mandible under the left ear of a quite alive lamb...!

Foal's limbOutline of supernumerary limb on a Foal

All these malformations do not have anything extraordinary when one thinks of the complexity of an organization of mammal...

dwarfism

These two calves are 1 month old ! It is a dwarfism case....

 

Now! Pull yourself together ! I propose a photograph .......more cool.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

kerkénah

Island of Kerkénah in Tunisia

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