A snake catcher was called to the yard of a house and found a snake there with two heads
Nick Evans was called to the yard of a house in South Africa unmt ao a small brown snake with two heads: "Snakes like this don't survive long, they hardly move and in nature they are very easy prey".
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24/07/2022
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Snake with two heads (JD KLEOPFER/WILDLIFE CENTER OF VIRGINIA)
Serpent Wrangler and Nick Evans have been dealing with snakes for years, but they've never seen anything quite as bizarre as the one they recently encountered in a man's yard in Durban, South Africa.
The two arrived at the scene and were amazed to discover a common brown egg snake with two heads, yes yes what you read.
This snake, as you can see for yourself, is very intimidating but it turns out that it is a species that is completely harmless, just very scary.
According to Nick Evans, the snake catcher who arrived at the scene, the man who found the snake in his yard has absolutely no reason to worry.
"I'm sure he was at least as surprised as I was," he said, "He didn't want anyone to hurt the snake, and put it in a bottle. He asked me to pick it up and take it away. I think it was very nice of him."
Two-headed snake
Evans is admittedly very experienced with snakes, but he also testified that this is the first time in his career that he has seen such a snake with two heads, and after an examination he found that it was only 30 centimeters long.
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"It's quite interesting to see how it moves. Sometimes the two heads move in opposite directions, sometimes one head also rests on the other head. This seems to be the most effective way for it to move," he said and continued, "As far as I know, the lifespan of these snakes is not long. This snake will not last long in the wild. It can hardly move and when it moves, it does so very slowly. It is very easy prey. It hatched a few months or weeks ago and survived until now, it would really surprise me."
The bicephalic deformity is not entirely rare - it is a condition called bicephalic, and according to estimates affects 1 in 10,000 snake births.
As in the case of conjoined twins, this happens when a fertilized egg does not split completely.
While it is more common in snakes than other animals, it can occur in any vertebrate.
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