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two headed yellow rat hatchling
This was posted by very respected member of the uk herp community this morning on one of our uk forums. I thought you might be interested.
Heres the link to the topic and more photos.
http://www.livefoodshop.co.uk/forum/...ic=12893&st=0& |
07-09-2004, 02:51 PM
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awe poor thing.
I hope it does ok.
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WOW...interesting pics to say the least.
I would think that this would cause some interesting problems as it appears the animal has two brains and must have two independant feeding responses. I would think that could cause some rather stressful feeding situations for them.
From a scientific standpoint though, very interesting.
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07-09-2004, 03:37 PM
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poor little thing.
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Wow, I feel bad for them. Hopefully they make it and live ok. I remember last year one of the bigger named dragon breeders had a two headed dragon baby that unfortunetly didnt make it.
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happens all the time... well, maybe not ALL the time, but often enough. he/she/they oughta be just fine, really, i have heard of two headed snakes living long, relatively normal lives. i mean, if you think about it, why wouldn't they?
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07-27-2004, 04:35 PM
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mmmmm
axial bifurcation.
oh the rodent bill....
HA!
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happens all the time... well, maybe not ALL the time, but often enough. he/she/they oughta be just fine, really, i have heard of two headed snakes living long, relatively normal lives. i mean, if you think about it, why wouldn't they?
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Really? I always thought they tended to have shorter life spans. -I could easily be wrong though.
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most dont live very long.
But it does happen more often then one would suspect.
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07-27-2004, 09:12 PM
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actually there have been documents of a variety of snakes have 2 heads, and they actually make out quite well. There's an old guy who has a collection of bi-cranial herps, and in his collection a bi-cranial rattle snake that didnt have any problems eatting when it was alive...now the dude has the poor thing stuffed. =/
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in his collection a bi-cranial rattle snake
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Man, imagine getting tagged by both heads of a 2 headed rattle snake!
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07-27-2004, 10:48 PM
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It got put to sleep as one head was more dominant and just dragged the other round so the owner thought that it was best as many also did.
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one head was more dominant
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That is what usually happens.
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yep, unless there is another related or | |
