Hermaphroditic deer with seven legs ‘tasty’

Source AP

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."

must be a slow news day

I saw that article on cnn.com

I read the title of this thread and then I clicked. I apparently could not help myself.

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something about this sounds so - genetics gone wrong nature style. I get the feeling this "deer" had an uncle dad...
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Well, I dont like deer meat anyhow.
So ick

poor weirdo deer.

omg im gonna hurl... this so reminds me of the mutant animals id read about in the stephen king dark tower series.. siiiick...

hahaa uncle dad... ew.

haha, i've eaten worse...

*gag* i dont wanna know hehe...

you might be a redneck if...

yeah unfortunatley I was super poor growing up...i've had squirrel stew before
haha Im so redneck, im suprised I have all of my teeth

Squirrel Stew. Yeah I've had that before. ick
I remember my dad killed a squirrel once & left it sitting outside . . . . I was young so I picked it up & played with it. I was an odd kid.

My mother makes deermeat gumbo.

My family hunts a lot. In fact I live right by a hunting lease or whatever. I have to be careful if I take a walk & wonder off too far . . . . I've walked up on hunters before.

omg loralie... wear lots of orange... deer arent orange :D dont wear brown! haha...
mmmm i got sexy new army pants today... nobody would ever see me if i was in a forest wearing those and my new green shirt...

I ran over a deer with my bike that was somehow made entirely out of tofu, and i ate it.

I just made that story up, but it sounds cool.

hmm almost as gross as the first deer story too :D

at a New Years party we Deer Meat Balls ,kinda like swedish with out all that heavy Swed,,um um Tasty!
and ya ,i used to hunt with my dad and uncles but i havent in years.
but you name it ,,,,ive had it more than likely.even Tofu


Pass that #6 leg this way i say!