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=Ripley's believe it or not=

Double digits
In December 2006, a baby boy named Lakshya was born in Nadidad, western India, with 25 fingers and toes. Lakshya has six fingers on each hand, six toes on his right foot, and seven toes on his left foot.

Toe transplant
Gaeton Foos from Rochester, New York, lost two fingers and a thumb on his left hand in an accident when he was just three years old. When Gaeton reached the age of six, surgeons from the university of Pittsburgh Medical Centre transplanted one of his big toes onto the hand to act as a thumb.

The woman with half-a-body
Born with sacral agenesis, a rare condition left without a pelvis and part of her spine, Rosemarie Siggins from Pueblo, Colorado, had both of her legs amputated as a result of her illness when she was just two years old. Despite the incredible challenges posed by this, Rosemarie, now in her thirties, has had two successful ground-breaking pregnancies and is now the proud mother of Luke, born in 1999, and Shelby, born in 2006. Shown here with Luke and husband Dave, Rosemarie moves herself with her hands and often on a skateboard. She describes her condition in her own way: "If you could take a Barbie doll and remove its legs, the region you are left with is what I have. I have all the female working organs—the only reason I sit shorter is because I'm missing four sections of my spinal column."

Ramu the wolf boy
Found in 1954 in Lucknow, India when he was seven years old, Ramu was believed to have been raised by wolves during the previous six years of his life. Stories have been found "wolf boy" reached his parents, who identified Ramu and said that he'd been snatched from his mother's lap by a wolf when he was a baby, and they'd believed him to be dead. Ramu made only animal noises and initially ate only raw meat and fruit. He was not interested in the company of other humans, but when taken on a visit to a zoo became very excited by the wolves, lending weight to the belief that he somehow lived with wolves while he was missing. Ramu stayed at Lucknow hospital for another 14 years until his death in 1968.

Territorial tabby
A territorial cat defended his yard in spectacular fashion in 2006 by chasing a wandering black bear up a tree—twice. While Jack, a ten-year-old tabby, owned by Donna Dickey of West Milford, New Jersey, stood guard under a tree, the petrified bear clung into the branches. It stayed there for about 15 minutes, frequently looking down at Jack. When it eventually slid down the tree and tried to escape, a hissing Jack immediately gave chase, forcing the bear to take refuge up the second tree until Dickey called the cat home. As the bear ran off into the woods, Dickey summed up Jack's philosphy. "He doesn't want anybody in his yard," she said.

Vending fun
On October 21, 2006, Robert Moore, aged 3, unhappy about his unsuccessful attempts to buy a stuffed toy with the machine's plastic crane, decided to go in and get one. He climbed into a stuffed animal machine at a small store in Antigo, Wisconsin. Robert was later rescued by the Antigo fire department, who broke the lock and passed a screwdriver to Robert, who managed to undo the nessesary screws to affect his release.

Long-armed rescue
When two dolphins at an aquarium in Fushun, China, became sick after chewing plastic, the only man who could really save them was Mongolian herdsman, Bao Xishun, who is 7 ft (9 m) tall. He was able to use his 3.4 and a half (106 cm) long arms to pull the dangerous shards of plastic from the animal's stomachs.