Shock and awe fill the newsroom from today’s WTF headline, hailing all the way from China. As opposed to the expected lab-bred superhuman clone army you may expect to hear about in a weird feature from China, the following picture is filling the minds of readers full of shock and awe. With no further ado, the mutant monkey faced pig…

Yes, that pig has a face with strikingly eerie resemblance to a primate. Wtf is going on here?

The pig is apparently owned by a man named Feng Changlin. After the pig was born in his village, he quickly told his neighbors that something weird was going on with his new piglet. It didn’t look quite right. Word quickly spread and like moths to fire, neighbors of course gathered around to see the spectacle and offered their sage, professional scientific insight, as neighbors tend to do.

In an interview with a Chinese paper, Feng claims that the pig looks really similar to a monkey, from lips, eyes, to nose to mouth. He went as far to say its rear legs are a bit longer than its forelegs, causing it to jump as opposed to walking.

Feng’s wife also added on that the piglet was born along with four others, all of which look normal. Their son keeps feeding the pig, as to see how it will grow up.

“Our son likes to play with it, and he stopped us from getting rid of it. He even feeds it milk.”

The ongoing question to this is definitely wtf?!, and it occurs on several levels.

Is it even possible for a pig to have monkey features? I would think the answer should be no, but according to the Daily Telegraph, human pig embryos have been given the go ahead by the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority. I have no idea what all that research entails, but the end result is genes of primates and pigs mixed together. With their more laxed ideas about genetic research, there is no telling what China is doing in its labs and has villagers assisting with in their daily lives.

A colleague also asked about the possibility of a monkey literally ‘porking’ a female pig, and giving rise to this abomination. All points considered, I suppose the physics and mechanics of a pig and monkey would allow them to do the dirty pazookie all night long. I don’t think there would be enough genetic similarity in each other’s reproductive needs to have fertilization take place. But you never know.

This pig could also represent a random mutation (see human face fish in image to right and video below) or maybe it’s just Chinese media pulling shenanigans on us.

What I do know is that the idea of a mutant monkey pig sounds cool on paper, but in appearance, it’s pretty messed up. Just think, as the field of controlled genetic manipulation advances, animal concoctions such as our mutant monkey pig face will become far more common .