A picture taken on July 8, displays a two-head Albino California Kingsnake at the terrarium of "Skazka" (Fairy tale) Zoo in the Crimean city of Yalta. The snake will be on display at the zoo until mid-September.
Posted on 07/14/2011 10:41:29 AM PDT by Red Badger
A snake with two heads, each able to think and eat separately and even steal food from each other, has become a popular attraction at a Ukrainian zoo.
The small albino California Kingsnake, now on show in the Black Sea resort of Yalta is quite a handful, zoo workers told AFP.
The snake's two heads are fiercely independent, are not always in agreement and like to snatch food from each other, said keepers of the private zoo, called Skazka, or Fairy Tale.
"Sometimes one head wants to crawl in one direction and the other head in another direction," zoo director Oleg Zubkov told AFP.
Zoo worker Ruslan Yakovenko added that he tries to feed the snake's two heads separately as they sometimes fight for food.
"If it is really hungry, its heads may steal food from each other," he said, adding he also needs to separate the heads with a barrier.
"The second head may get angry, but both then feel satiation because they only have one stomach," he told AFP.
The private zoo said kingsnakes hunt other reptiles, meaning one of the snake's head could instinctively try to attack and eat the other one.
The three-year-old, two-foot-long (60 centimetre) reptile is on loan from Germany.
Visitor numbers had nearly doubled since it went on display in early July, said zoo keeper Yakovenko.
"Many enter the zoo feeling horrified and leave delighted."
The snake, believed to be Europe's only two-headed snake, will be on show in Ukraine until September.
A picture taken on July 8, displays a two-head Albino California Kingsnake at the terrarium of "Skazka" (Fairy tale) Zoo in the Crimean city of Yalta. The snake will be on display at the zoo until mid-September.
With apologies to the poor innocent reptile, the only mutant two-headed snake I’ve ever heard of is John McCain.
Can you imagine what life would be like if you were born one half of a set of siamese twins and the other half was an Obama supporter???
>>The snake, believed to be Europe’s only two-headed snake<<
They have yet to meet the EU “diplomats” in Brussels.
Yawn. We have plenty of those in Congress... and a big one in the White House.
They have Democrats in the Ukraine?
Wrong. Barack Hussein Obama, George Soros, Harry Reid, Nancy Piglosi, Chuck Schumer, and so on...
Their names are Soros and Nobama.
You forgot Olympia Snowe!
Chernobyl is located in Ukraine.
Does this snake glow in the dark?......................
Snowe and Collins are the mutant two-headed toad.
"The second head may get angry, but both then feel satiation because they only have one stomach," he told AFP.
Sounds just like the Democrats and Republicans in Congress.
This is not really him, but an actor playing him in a movie
I don’t know about a two headed snake but we do have a snake with a forked tongue in the White House.
I’ll remember that whenever I feel down. Things could be worse.
I’ve seen a two-headed snake at an aquarium in the US, so perhaps they are not all that rare. As part of studying the steps of embryogenesis, biologists have discovered how to produce two-headed creatures intentionally.
“With apologies to the poor innocent reptile, the only mutant two-headed snake I’ve ever heard of is John McCain.”
Wouldn’t James Carvile qualify?
No. He’s beyond loathesome...but not two-faced.
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