Posted on 10/26/2020 9:55:26 AM PDT by BenLurkin
This condition — known as bicephaly — is an uncommon abnormality that occurs during embryonic development, when identical twins fail to fully separate, Live Science previously reported. The condition appears in all sorts of animals, including deer and porpoises; humans seem to encounter living bicephalic snakes about once a year. In 2019, a bicephalic baby rattlesnake named "Double-Dave" turned up in New Jersey, while a two-headed viper slithered onto a family's property in Virginia in 2018. Dos just helped 2020 meet its quota.
Bicephalic animals tend to have a rough go of it in the wild, where their competing brains make it harder to do things like catch prey or flee predators. As such, they often end up in the custody of wildlife experts. For now, Dos is being cared for by the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC), which recently took some spiffy head shots (heads shots?) of the snake for Facebook. FWC experts identified Dos as a juvenile southern black racer (Coluber constrictor Priapus), a small, nonvenomous snake common in the southeastern United States.
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Good kitty!
Democrats.
Cats have a remarkable talent for discovery.
Two-headed snake?
I’ll see that and raise you a lying dog-faced pony soldier.
It’s not ‘rare’.........there are hundreds of thousands in DC..................
Do they get into arguments with each other?
How about the meanest animal in the jungle (oops non PC), the HippoGator.
A Hippo head on one end and a Gator head on the other end.
Oh, then how does he poop?
He doesn’t - - that’s what makes him so mean.
They should let cats run the DOJ.
No big deal. The Senate has a number of them. Among them are Chuck Schumer, Dick Durbin, some guy that steals valor named Blumenthall, etc.
The snake’s name is Jomala.
Those are two-faced snakes, not two-headed. Different mutation.
"You always lean to the left!" "Well, YOU always lean to the right!" "Somebody has to offset your vote, you commie!" "Well, I have to in order to offset your vote, you neandrathal!" "Mom always liked you better..." "Don't you have a rock to slither under?"
:)
Now, THERE’S a great idea. I can only imagine kitties hauling out the human rodents by the scruff of their worthless necks.
At least my cat killed a snake he found. I would not want a snake dropped on my floor!
Looks like a red rat snake to me.
I caught a near to 5’ black snake in the front yard a few weeks back.
Cats just LOVE to drop horrifying “presents” at your feet.
Last week I walked into my kitchen and found our three kittens “playing” with a scorpion. The scorpion was fighting back hard, and the kittens were having the best time ever.
GAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHH!!!
I’ve lived in my house (in Tempe AZ, the desert) for 30 years, and I have NEVER found a scorpion in my house before.
GAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH!!!!!
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