MUTANTS

Animals are said to be mutants when they show characteristics different from the rest of their species.Mutants are processes by which the hereditary properties of some of the reproductive cells in animals are altered.

In nature these changes can take place spontaneously and unpredictably. But they are and little is known about this cause , beyond the fact that the longer an animal takes to breed the less likely it is to give birth to a mutant.
Nowadays the most common causes of animals producing mutants of animals producing mutants are chemical substances and radiation. Indeed radiation is a rapidly increasing hazard.

Animals born from parents who suffers the effects of more than normal radiation are invariable mutants .Cows have been known to grow a fifth leg in the pacific islands, where nuclear tests have been found on land .Birds have lost the power to fly, and some may have only one wings .Turtle mutants are unable to find the sea and consequently die.

Animals mutants have long to triked and frightened people .