A two-headed calf has been born on a farm in north Florida.

The calf, who has been named Annabel, was born in on Monday at a farm owned by the Crews family in Baker County.

Although she has one body, Annabel has two heads with a total of four eyes, two mouths, two noses and two ears as the result of a rare condition called 'polycephaly'.

'A two-headed calf! I cannot believe it,' Owner Dwight Crews, who has raised cattle for more than 60 years, told WJXT. 'I've heard of them, but I've never seen one. This is my first one.'

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Seeing double: Annabel the calf, who was born on Monday, has four eyes and two noses on her two heads

She is too weak to lift her heavy heads so is unable to suckle from her mother, who visits her regularly inside the enclosure where she lays at the farm.

Instead, the calf must be fed by bottle, and the farm's owners feed her four times a day. When she suckles with one mouth, the other mouth moves, her owners have noticed.

Carolyn Crews added to WJXX: 'It was just like a surprise because no one has even seen anything like this around here. I never dreamed of such a thing happening. It'll be something that we probably never seen in our lifetime.'

Annabel is breathing heavily but a veterinarian told that there is nothing they can do, and she is not expected to live long.

Ripley's Believe It or Not contacted the family and told them that the longest a two-headed calf has survived is 40 days.

Staff told them it's more common to see a cow born with extra limbs, rather than a second head.

Weak: The small calf's head is so heavy that she cannot stand and is unable to suckle her mother

Hand-reared: The Crews family is hopeful that Annabel will get strong enough to walk

Stunned: Dwight Crews, pictured, said he has never seen a two-headed cow in his 60 years of farming

But despite the odds, Dwight Crews remains hopeful.

'I would like to see her live, and see her get up and walk and function,' he said.

WHEN TWO HEADS AREN'T BETTER THAN ONE: WHAT IS POLYCEPHALY? The phenomenon of being born with more than one head is called polycephaly, and is believed to occur when an embryo begins to split into twins but stops so that the twins remain attached. Having more than one head is known as polycephaly, with two-headedness more specifically known as 'bicephaly' or 'dicephaly'. Each head of a polycephalic animal has its own brain, and they share control of the organs and limbs, though the specific structure of the connections varies between each case. Creatures with the condition rarely live beyond a few months. Advertisement

The phenomenon is called polycephaly, and is believed to occur when an embryo begins to split into twins but stops, meaning that the twins remain attached.

An animal is born with the condition every one in 400 million times, WTLV reported.

Having more than one head is known as polycephaly, with two-headedness more specifically known as 'bicephaly' or 'dicephaly'.

Each head of a polycephalic animal has its own brain, and they share control of the organs and limbs, though the specific structure of the connections varies.

Such animals often move in a disoriented and dizzy fashion, with the brains 'arguing' with each other leading some specimens to simply zig-zag without getting anywhere.

In snakes, each head may attack and even attempt to swallow the other.

There have also been cases in humans; twins Abigail and Brittany Hensel, from Minnesota, are dicephalic parapagus twins, which means each has a separate head but their bodies are joined.

Rare: The condition is known as 'polycephaly' and is found in other animals. In 2008, these baby blue sharks were found off the coast of Mexico and in 2006, this two-headed calf was born in an Egyptian village

Sssscary: Last year, this double-headed snake was seen slithering past a home in Burdwan, West Bengal



