A horrified farmer could not believe his eyes when his sow gave birth to a piglet that looks like a chimpanzee and appears to have just one eye in the middle of its face.

The strange-looking creature was born in the San Juan y Martinez area of western Cuba’s Pinar del Rio, reports Express.

The brown piglet has a face and ears just like a chimp while its nine pink siblings are all completely normal.

Its terrified owner called out the vet as soon as he saw the bizarre little pig.

And villagers have been flocking to see the unusual creature which has to be held by its owners so that it can suckle at its mother’s teat.

The vet has taken blood samples to investigate how the abnormal piglet developed in the way that it has.

Videos and photographs are proving popular with viewers after being shared online.

They show the farmer’s wife holding the strange-looking little pig by its front legs so it is standing on its back leg, accentuating its chimp-like appearance.

The woman is also seen holding the piglet in her hands so that it can feed alongside its brothers and sisters.

Its unusual appearance is believed to have been caused by a genetic mutation.

San Juan y Martinez is a predominately agricultural area of Cuba known as the Mecca of Tobacco.