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Rarely you find reports on the news and in the media of a "cow" (or any bovine, really) that has an extra set of legs in addition to the four that are already there. This occurs when a cow has twins in her uterus, primarily maternal twins, and one of the twins either hasn't fully separated from the other, or that the other twin, usually the smaller, hasn't completely been reabsorbed into the other, resulting in these freak accidents of a calf being born with a couple extra set of appendages that obviously do not belong to that calf in the first place. Occasionally siamese calves have also been born, but usually these calves do not survive long after birth.

Normally though, a cow (and a bull, steer, heifer and calf) has four legs, not six. Cows are mammals, not insects, which means they are only inheritably and genetically capable of having four limbs, not six or, heaven forbid, even eight.

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