The Unicorn Cow Presents A World Of Monsters
IN China, Jia Kebing owns a unicorn cow. The cow has a horn on its head. The horn is 8 inches proud. Says Jia:
“My farm is famous in this region for this cow and people come in here just to see it.”
Anorak is all for new animals. We live in an age when new creatures are hard to come by. The Victorians had news of rhino and tigers, creatures of fantasy made real by having them killed, stuffed and brought home to prove the fact. Darwin spoke of magical birds. Georgians had news of kangaroos. We have a Montauk (an otter with alopecia) and microorganisms.
So. Hail to the Chinese, who can improve on existing animals to make them things of wonder.
ZHANG Duifang aka Zhang Ruifang is looking for a panto cow: Woman Grows Unicorn Horn: Pictures
alien-blob
ON Temuka beach, Rose Fraser has potted an alien. Says she: “I first saw it from a distance and I thought: ‘That’s a big white rock on the shore line … that wasn’t there four days ago’.” A new island? “I must admit, I thought: ‘Heck, this is an alien’. It looks like it’s got big ribs coming out of it, but it looks like they could be tentacles, so I don’t know.” So she did as anyone would do when faced with a magical discovery, a visitation from another planet. She lobbed a rock at it. She prodded it with a stick. It did not move. But it did smell. She then took a photo which found its way to Otago University’s whale experts. And they ruled that this blob was the stuffing from a sperm whale’s head. How it arrived on the beach? They say it crawled there…
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