An AI heifer was born with two faces in Viriginia.  Though the article keeps calling the baby a 'calf', it also calls the little one a 'she'. 

The farmer AI'd the mom cow for the heifer, to get a good animal genetically.  This kind of deformity can happen usually when twins do not completely seperate after starting development, so it is possible the heifer is still good genetically. 

I wonder if there are two brains in the braincase, and, if so, what the poor little buggers think about all this.

Ebony and Lilly are mine and Ronald's newest family members.  Ebony, a 15 year old beautiful sorrel Tennessee Walker, is Ronald's Christmas gift from me.  His name has nothing to do with his color, but everything to do with his sire, who also was named Ebony.  

Ebony appears to be a very well trained horse.  At first, Ronald and Alyssa were a bit put off by the walker gait (Alyssa thinks it makes Ebony look lame in his front feet), but the horse is such a big puppy, that he has pretty much won them both over.  He is such a character, that when a person goes into the pasture, he is right there, rubbing up on a person and begging for his ears to rubbed or his neck to be scratched.  While he is getting a neck scratch or ear rub, he will close his eyes and lean his head against the person; he looks like he is in bliss....

Alyssa rode Country Girl, who we are renaming Lilly.  Lilly didn't know her old name, and it seemed weird to call her "Girl".  She was a little harder to work with on the ground; she didn't want the bit at all.  Once the bit was on, she became a different horse....she didn't fight at all.  But she also wouldn't go anywhere...Alyssa had to slap her on the ass for her to actually go anywhere.  I think it is a tack issue, that the mare needs a hackmore or something besides a bit.  She is a very nice mare otherwise, and both Alyssa and I think she is pregnant.

Osama the elephant has been shot dead by hunters in India.  He has killed 27 people, trampled many homes and destroyed fields.

Predictably, conservationists are ticked off.  Some have made claims that the wrong elephant was killed, though the people who have been assaulted by the beast identified it.

But then, most conservationists seem to want people dead, so I guess their reaction isn't very surprising.

 Reuters photo