Gazelle with SIX LEGS is photographed in Israel [Video]

10:53 EDT 09 Apr 2024 , updated 12:46 EDT 09 Apr 2024

A six-legged gazelle was spotted prancing in Israel by a member of the nation’s defense forces.

The animal had an extra pair of appendages growing from its back, which was caused by a genetic disorder called organ proliferation, or polymelia.

The rare syndrome is also found among humans, appearing in less than one per 100,000 births, but it has been reported in a range of mammals including cows, reptiles, chickens and mice.

The gazelle was seen on a nature reserve in the southern Negev desert that occupies Palestine and Israeli, which sits just a few miles from the Hamas music festival massacre site.

The discovery was made by an Israeli army reservist Nir Leichter in late March when he stopped for coffee at the Nahal HaBoshor nature reserve.

Leichter …