Piglet with the face of a monkey born in China

A Bizarre photo of a little piglet born with the face of a monkey in China has left everyone bemused. The mutant piglet which is one of a litter of fifteen born together, of which only eight survived appears to have a monkey’s head, a small snout and a protruding lower jaw.

The piglet however was struggling to compete with its siblings for their mother's milk, so is now been taken care of by it's owner farmer Lin, who lives in Zhijin, Guizhou province, China.

Lin, said the piglet scared her at first.

”I am already 63 years old and have never seen a pig look like this,” she told Chinese news site 6Park.

This isn’t the first time such a creature has been born with a facial deformity – with new mutant pigs being reported from South America through to China.

Experts believe environmental pollution might have played a role in the pig’s strange appearance.