--- title: Octogoat: Goat With Eight Legs, Both Sexes Born In Croatia description: Oh, it also has both male and female reproductive organs canonical: https://time.com/91247/octogoat-born-in-croatia/ author: Samantha Grossman article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-05-07T19:04:17.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:09:28.734Z og:title: Meet 'Octogoat,' the Goat With Eight Legs og:description: Oh, it also has both male and female reproductive organs og:url: https://time.com/91247/octogoat-born-in-croatia/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Meet 'Octogoat,' the Goat With Eight Legs twitter:description: Oh, it also has both male and female reproductive organs twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Meet 'Octogoat,' the Goat With Eight Legs Born In Croatia by [Samantha Grossman](https://time.com/author/samantha-grossman/) ## Samantha Grossman May 7, 2014 7:04 PM UTC by [Samantha Grossman](https://time.com/author/samantha-grossman/) ## Samantha Grossman May 7, 2014 7:04 PM UTC Forget about [Octomom](http://nation.time.com/2014/01/13/octomom-charged-with-welfare-fraud-2/), because the coolest new Octo-thing is this octogoat: > [](https://twitter.com/ztiworoh/status/464086955719143424) This creature was born this week in Croatia with eight legs and both male and female reproductive parts, ITV News [reports](http://www.itv.com/news/update/2014-05-07/newborn-goat-nicknamed-octogoat-for-its-eight-legs/). “I counted his legs and I thought I was seeing things,” Zoran Paparic, whose goat Sarka gave birth to the octogoat, [told](http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2621732/Billy-squid-Eight-legged-octogoat-kid-born-Croatian-farm.html) reporters. “Then I called my neighbour to make sure that I am not crazy.” Veterinarians believe that the reason for the kid’s extra legs and sex organ is an underdeveloped twin sibling. They say it’s unlikely that the goat will survive, but if it does make it past the first week, they expect it to live for two or three years. Clearly its name should be Octavio. Or Octavia. Whichever one it feels in its heart. ([h/t Gawker](http://gawker.com/look-at-this-8-legged-2-sex-organ-having-goat-1572996171/all)) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/91247/octogoat-born-in-croatia/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/91247/octogoat-born-in-croatia/"},"headline":"Meet 'Octogoat,' the Goat With Eight Legs Born In Croatia","datePublished":"2014-05-07T19:04:17.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:09:28.734Z","description":"Oh, it also has both male and female reproductive organs","url":"https://time.com/91247/octogoat-born-in-croatia/","keywords":["Newsfeed","animals","Goats","croatia"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Samantha Grossman","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/samantha-grossman/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/91247/octogoat-born-in-croatia/","name":"Meet 'Octogoat,' the Goat With Eight Legs Born In Croatia"}}]}] ```