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This beautiful little creature is a piglet with six legs, which was born two days ago in Lianyungang, China.

In case you haven't spotted them yet, the spare legs can be seen emerging from the vicinty of the pig's buttocks.

This is far from the first multi-appendaged animal the Metro has covered (many of them from China). It follows on from two previous Chinese pigs which both had two faces, a two-faced cow from America, and a six-legged cow from Colombia.

Oh, and a seven-legged gender-bending deer in Wisconsin.

Regular readers and Sinophiles will need no reminding that, this being the Chinese Year of the Pig, the birth of this pig is likely to be seen as a particularly good omen. Or a particularly bad omen.