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去年，这只独眼无鼻小猫夏可洛普司的照片引起全球的关注，许多人都怀疑照片是经过电脑合成的。不久，美国纽约州一家奇趣博物馆将公开展出小猫的遗体。
The one-eyed, noseless kitten that inspired an international debate last year over whether it was a hoax is coming to a new museum of oddities in central New York.
去年，这只独眼无鼻小猫夏可洛普司的照片引起全球的关注，许多人都怀疑照片是经过电脑合成的。不久，美国纽约州一家奇趣博物馆将公开展出小猫的遗体。
据美联社4月5日报道，小猫原来的主人艾伦将小猫的遗体卖给了约翰·阿道菲。阿道菲决定今年秋天在自己开办的“失落的世界”博物馆中展出这只稀奇的独眼小猫。
小猫夏可洛普司与希腊神话中的独眼巨人同名。阿道菲便是一名希腊神话信奉者。他表示，这只小猫将引发科学和宗教相互关联的讨论。小猫原来的主人艾伦表示，她曾拒绝将小猫卖给著名的“信不信由你”奇趣馆，但愿意将它卖给阿道菲。她说：“我们不愿意让夏可洛普司成为一个玩笑或个人的收藏，但约翰是如此的热心肠，你能感觉到他的真挚和诚恳。”
阿道菲没有透露他花了多少钱买下小猫夏可洛普司，他表示即将在当地的一家殡仪馆为小猫用防腐药物保存尸体。据悉，阿道菲博物馆的其它展品还包括巨型的植物和卵、畸形的动物遗体，和考古学家发现的一些奇珍异品。
去年12月，小猫夏可洛普司在出生后的第二天死亡。兽医说，死因为前脑无裂畸形症。
The one-eyed, noseless kitten that inspired an international debate last year over whether it was a hoax is coming to a new museum of oddities in central New York.
The museum founder, who believes in creationism, said the kitten is meant to launch another debate about how science and religion intersect.
The Oregon woman who owned the kitten said she turned down Ripley‘s Believe it or Not! and sold the remains to John Adolfi of Granby because she liked his religious reasons for wanting them.
"We didn‘t want Cy becoming a joke or part of a personal collection," Traci Allen said.
"But John was so heartfelt, you could tell he was genuine and sincere."
Adolfi would not say how much he paid for the kitten, named Cy, for Cyclops. He said he plans to have it embalmed Wednesday at a local funeral home.
The kitten died in December, a day after being born. Veterinarians in Oregon said it suffered from a rare disorder called holoprosencephaly.
Cy will be displayed in a glass jar in the Lost World Museum, which Adolfi hopes to open in nearby Phoenix this fall.
Other exhibits will include giant plants and eggs, deformed animal remains and archaeological finds, Adolfi said.
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