You’ve probably heard the recent reports of a winged cat. The cat’s Chinese owner
says the wings, which contain bones, make her pet look like a ‘cat angel’. Her explanation is that the cat sprouted the wings after being sexually harassed.
“A month ago, many female cats in heat came to harass him, and then the wings started to grow,” she said.
However, experts say the phenomenon is more likely down to a gene mutation, and say it shouldn’t prevent the cat living a normal life. (source)
Did the tomcat grow these wings just to fly away from his groupies? How Lamarckian of him!
More on winged cats at the end of this post. . . but first, there are much odder stories blamed on “gene mutations”. I ran across this dreadful mess in a 2005 issue of Pravda:
Geneticists say that mutations seriously change the set of chromosomes, and people with mutations can thus hardly be called humans.
