Animals with Downs Syndrome

These are not edited photos, they are real, and they are of various animal species, suffering from the rare disease known to humans as Downs Syndrome. It is incredibly rare in animals, but can be seen in domestic dogs as well as in exotic animals. Like in humans, it causes facial defects and also causes the animals brains to develop a lot slower and never develop fully therefore these animals are quite dopey. In the wild they would die very young but the animals above have all been raised in zoos. People are almost completely unaware about this disease in animals, but it does exist, little is known about the animal form as downs syndrome but it highlights just how close humans are to other species on this earth.