UUUUUNICOOOOORN!!![views:2729][posts:12]________________________________________ [Jun 12,2008 11:58am - anonymonster ""] Link has picture http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,365629,00.html ROME — A deer with a single horn in the center of its head — much like the fabled, mythical unicorn — has been spotted in a nature preserve in Italy, park officials said Wednesday. "This is fantasy becoming reality," Gilberto Tozzi, director of the Center of Natural Sciences in Prato, told The Associated Press. "The unicorn has always been a mythological animal." The 1-year-old Roe Deer — nicknamed "Unicorn" — was born in captivity in the research center's park in the Tuscan town of Prato, near Florence, Tozzi said. He is believed to have been born with a genetic flaw; his twin has two horns. Calling it the first time he has seen such a case, Tozzi said such anomalies among deer may have inspired the myth of the unicorn. "This shows that even in past times, there could have been animals with this anomaly," he said by telephone. "It's not like they dreamed it up." Single-horned deer are rare but not unheard of — but even more unusual is the central positioning of the horn, experts said. "Generally, the horn is on one side (of the head) rather than being at the center. This looks like a complex case," said Fulvio Fraticelli, scientific director of Rome's zoo. He said the position of the horn could also be the result of a trauma early in the animal's life. Other mammals are believed to contribute to the myth of the unicorn, including the narwhal, a whale with a long, spiraling tusk. |
| ________________________________________ [Jun 12,2008 11:59am - anonymonster ""] ... and I hope someone got the reference in the thread title. |
| ________________________________________________________ [Jun 12,2008 12:13pm - thuringwethil at the library ""] [img] Charleeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee |
| ________________________________________________________ [Jun 12,2008 12:15pm - thuringwethil at the library ""] bennyhillifier Magical Leopluridon! |
| _______________________________________ [Jun 12,2008 12:15pm - the_reverend ""] unicorn's are horses! this is a deer. |
| ________________________________________________________ [Jun 12,2008 12:16pm - thuringwethil at the library ""] they still kick ass. |
| _________________________________ [Jun 12,2008 12:39pm - xmikex ""] Pfft. Next you're gonna tell me Martin Luther King was a real too. |
| ___________________________________________ [Jun 12,2008 12:39pm - largefreakatzero ""] Mmmmmm...veal. |
| ________________________________________ [Jun 12,2008 12:54pm - anonymonster ""] the_reverend said:unicorn's are horses! this is a deer. Unicorns is unicorns. |
| ____________________________________ [Jun 12,2008 1:16pm - DYA / NLI ""] thuringwethil%20at%20the%20library said: Magical Leopluridon! We're on a bridge, Charrrliiie! |
| _______________________________________ [Jun 12,2008 1:36pm - anonymonster ""] [img] |
| _________________________________________ [Jun 12,2008 1:55pm - SacreligionNLI ""] unicorns is deers is raviolis is faggits |
| ______________________________ [Jun 12,2008 3:20pm - Yeti ""] [img] |