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![This undated handout image, obtained by Reuters on September 27, 2011, shows a Massachusetts cat with two faces that has become the world's longest surviving so called ''janus'' feline at 12 years of age. [Reuters]](http://images.china.cn/attachement/jpg/site1007/20110929/000cf1a48b7f0fee13f60b.jpg "This undated handout image, obtained by Reuters on September 27, 2011, shows a Massachusetts cat with two faces that has become the world's longest surviving so called ''janus'' feline at 12 years of age. [Reuters]")
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| This undated handout image, obtained by Reuters on September 27, 2011, shows a Massachusetts cat with two faces that has become the world's longest surviving so called ''janus'' feline at 12 years of age. [Reuters] |
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Sara Wilcox, a Guinness World Records spokeswoman said on Tuesday that Frank and Louie, a two-faced cat with two mouths, two noses and three eyes, turned 12 years old this month, setting the record for "longest surviving Janus cat," Reuters reported.
The name "Janus cat" was coined by British zoologist Dr. Karl Shuker. The name is based on Janus, the two-faced Roman god of transitions, gates and doorways.
The disorder, also known as diprosopia, has been recorded multiple times in the domestic cat, but few of the resulting two-faced kittens have survived into adulthood.
Frank and Louie was born on September 8, 1999 and his remarkable life will be commemorated in Guinness World Records' new 2012 edition, Wilcox said.
The cat has one brain, so both faces act in unison. Two of his eyes -- the outermost ones -- are normal, while the middle eye is larger but doesn't function.
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雙面貓創吉尼斯紀錄
?????? 據路透社報道，吉尼斯世界紀錄的女發言人薩拉?威爾科克斯周二表示，長著兩張嘴、兩個鼻子、三只眼的雙面貓——弗蘭克和路易在本月滿12歲，從而創造了紀錄，成為“存活時間最長的杰納斯貓”。
?????? “杰納斯貓”這個詞由英國動物學家卡爾?遐克爾發明，取名自羅馬雙面轉換的門戶神。
?????? 該癥又稱為雙面畸形癥，有記載的患此癥的家貓只有數只，但幾乎沒有雙面小貓活到成年。
?????? 威爾科克斯說，弗蘭克和路易生于1999年9月8日，它不平凡的一生將會記載在《吉尼斯世界紀錄》2012年版中。
?????? 這只貓有一個大腦，所以兩張臉同時運動。它的三只眼里，邊上的兩只是正常的，中間的眼睛雖大，卻不起作用。
(China.org.cn September 29, 2011) |
