Okay, it’s more like one-and-a-third-headed, but that wouldn’t have made for such a snazzy title for this article. Granted, it would be a little more on target for the subject matter of this magazine if the creature involved had been a wolf instead of a puma, but this news story was just too good to pass up. A large predator with part of a second head growing out of its skull. That’s not something that you find every day. Look at the photograph. You don’t think that’s equal parts fascinating and scary? And by “scary” I mean, if you were alone in the woods and unarmed and you came across this critter. I daresay that would put a scare into even Chuck Norris.
This animal was “harvested”—just a more PC term for “killed”—by a hunter in Idaho. I won’t climb up on the soapbox to question the morality of tracking and killing an apex predator with the aid of hunting dogs, not here, not today, yet I must concede that if the redneck—I mean, hunter—in question hadn’t shot the creature, we never would have known it existed. It puts me in mind of that guy in China, who had a second mouth, complete with teeth, growing out of the back of his head. He eventually got plastic surgery, as I recall. Better than being stuffed and studied as a scientific curiosity, which is the fate for which this poor dead deformed puma is destined.