Two-Headed Deer Fetus

As any dog owner knows, dogs love to pick up and carry around any dead critters they may happen across (a behavior which is perhaps preferable to their unfortunate penchant for rolling on the carcasses of dead critters they happen across), but imagine the surprise of one rural Mandan resident when his dog dragged home a two-headed white-tailed deer fetus. The female whitetail was hit and killed by a vehicle on ND Highway 1806 in April 2018. The dog apparently found the fetus nearby and brought it home. The landowner contacted the Department and turned over the fetus to our biologists. Such a find is extremely rare, as this is only the fourth such documented two-headed white-tailed deer reported in any literature since 1761.