I couldn't stop laughing when I read the title to this 'news story', especially after reading the 'sub-headline'. [rquoter] Hermaphroditic deer with seven legs ‘tasty’ Wisconsin hunter bags odd beast with pickup in driveway, eats it source 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." [/rquoter]
Yes, the persian fallow has three extra legs for superior running ability. I don't know if it makes them too much bigger than other deer.
I like deer meat but I don't know if I'd eat anything like that without finding out what caused it first.
I won't touch that deer even if you point a gun at me, not to mention eating it. Don't wanna become a radiactive mutant.
8 years ago I lived near a forest and there was this weird deer running around with the pack that showed up in our backyard. It was an albino deer with stubby legs, it looked like a shaved lamb running around with a bunch of deer (my parents always called them deers, pissed me off to no end). What was also odd was that the other deer always helped the little one out, whether to jump over fences or to make sure it got food.
Eating a mutant turns you into either Spiderman or the Hulk? Yeah.... Some sound biological thinking going on here. If the deer was healthy, it would be perfectly edible. I eat mutant crawfish all the time.
