Albanian Makes Fortune From Two-Headed Calf
T I R A N A, Albania, May 2 -- A destitute Albanian widow withfour children to feed was dejected when the family's only cowgave birth to a two-headed calf.
But the hapless creature, born with two brains and twomouths, brought them great fortune when a U.S. veterinaryassociation bought the newborn for $25,000, the GazetaShqiptare newspaper said today.
Keeping the Goose That Laid the Golden Egg
The undisclosed U.S. group also offered the widow money forthe calf's mother, but she refused to sell it. "Maybe it givesbirth to another calf like this," said the woman from thevillage of Rrumbullak, 40 miles south of Tirana, the capital.
The paper said the American vets wanted to study thedeformed animal.
The area where the calf was born is notorious for birthdeformities in both animals and humans, possibly due to heavypollution from an industrial smelting complex.
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