Odd Deer Bagged in Wisconsin

[Doug]

Wisconsin Hunter Bags Deer With Both Male and Female Organs and 7 Legs
12-13-2006 8:00 PM

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.

..."And by the way, I did eat it," Lisko said. "It was tasty."

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[Barbara Fitzpatrick]

Where's the nearest nuclear power plant to Fon du Lac?

[Betsy]

That is preposterous and I find it hard to believe. If you found a deer like that, you would (a) take a bunch of pictures of it (the article has NO photos!!??) and (b) NOT eat it. You'd enter it in contests or shows or sell it someone for a bunch of money or start your own "step right up and see the seven legged hermaphrodite deer!" stand at the fair, or donate it to science. You wouldn't just EAT it. Oh, I just remembered, it was probably dead. Still. I'd be like Barbara and assume it had been contaminated by nuclear fallout somewhere.

[Barbara Fitzpatrick]

Either nuclear or else this animals mother lived (and drank water) in an area downwind of a coal-fired power plant. Mercury in the water, you know. Neurotoxins also cause mutations.