Story By: John Feng, Sub-Editor:  Joseph Golder, Agency: Asia Wire Report

This is the freakish mutant piglet born with completely smooth skin and a ‘trunk like an elephant’.

The young hog was born on 19th March and was the only one in its litter to present with the odd birth defects, its owners said.

According to farm resident Fan Meiling, the sow that mothered the piglets belongs to her uncle in the county of Jinsha, which is in Bijie City in south-western China’s Guizhou Province.

Ms Fan’s video shows the mutant piglet with an elongated nose “like an elephant” having been born completely hairless.

It is placed in isolation under a livestock heat lamp while its siblings are sleeping together in baskets nearby, the footage shows.

Ms Fan said: “I’d never seen anything like it before. It was very strange, and it seems everyone else thought so too.”

Sadly, the pig with the bizarre malformation died just hours later, she revealed.

Ms Fan said her uncle has reported the mutant piglet to the local animal husbandry bureau, with officials expected to take and examine the animal.

The cause of the piglet’s mutations were still unclear at the time of writing.

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