ARMENPRESS

TWO-HEADED CALF BORN IN KAPAN DIES

KAPAN, FEBRUARY 7, ARMENPRESS: A two-headed calf
was born this week on a dairy farm in a village in
southern Armenia province of Syunik. But shortly
afterwards it died. The local veterinary, Tigran
Danielian, managed to save the mother cow.
According to him, that was the fourth delivery of
the six-year old cow that had a normal pregnancy
period.
Local people said they heard about such things, but
never saw a calf with more than one head, although
they saw calves with three legs, one ear.
Scientists call this polycephaly, which is the
condition of having more than one head. The term is
derived from the stems poly- meaning ‘many’ and
kephal- meaning "head", and encompasses bicephaly and
dicephaly (both referring to two-headedness).