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Shocking footage shows a live rat with a sapling soya plant growing through its body.

Experts are baffled by the freak occurrence, but have speculated a soya bean seed could have fallen into an open wound and germinated.

Farmer Datar Singh had planted a soya bean crop in the Ratlam district of Madhya Pradesh, India, earlier this year.

He was astonished to find a rat with a soya bean sapling growing from its back when he inspected the crop on Aug 7.

Singh ruled out anyone playing a prank and said a soya seed must have accidentally fallen through an open wound of the rat and germinated from there.