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View Poll Results: How many heads does your Corn Snake have?
One 33 89.19%
Two 1 2.70%
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Two headed corn snakes and other "tails" of the bizarre...
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Old 06-09-2003, 02:12 PM   #1
CowBoyWay
Smile Two headed corn snakes and other "tails" of the bizarre...

Regarding Two Headed Corn Snakes...
Although rare, two headed snakes occur...
A two-headed corn snake named Thelma and Louise was kept at the San Diego Zoo...
It had 15 normal babies before it died...

Snakes with two heads have to decide they're both hungry at the same time, and then they have to agree to pursue the same prey.
Then they might fight over which head gets to swallow the prey.
To make it even more complicated, since snakes operate a good deal by smell, if one head catches the scent of prey on the other's head, it will attack and try to swallow its second head.

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/n...headsnake.html

Other double-headed snakes have been found in Honduras, the United States, Sri Lanka and Argentina.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/1910471.stm

Natures special creatures photo Link...
http://www.texasreptiles.com/htm/snow.html
http://www.texasreptiles.com/htm/calking.html
http://www.texasreptiles.com/htm/2tails4.htm
http://www.texasreptiles.com/freaks.html

Hoop snake...Self cannibalistic Corn... Bill Love Photo
Trivia: One of the key elements of Norse Mythology, Jormungund, is the snake that sits around the world, swallowing his own tail, in the sign of eternity.
http://www.cornutopia.com/Corn%20Uto...annibal%20corn

"Corn Snake cannabilism"...Clint Boyer photos .
http://www.molalla.net/~cboyer/Cannibals.htm


Scientists explain that such phenomena (two headed animals) appear as a result of mutations in the organism in the period of the embryonic growth of tissues.
Mutations can be caused by unfavorable environmental situation first of all, high concentration of toxic substance....
http://funreports.com/2003/03/13/44378.html
 
Old 06-09-2003, 03:48 PM   #2
CAV
CowBoyWay,

Your ability to educate and amaze is truely limitless. How do you come up with this stuff?? Thanks for the entertainment.

How about "How many personalities does your corn snake have?"
 
Old 06-11-2003, 11:49 PM   #3
Clint Boyer
Two-tails of the bizarre

Check this one out!
 
Old 06-12-2003, 12:43 AM   #4
CAV
Dang Clint! What do you guys put in the water up there??
 
Old 06-12-2003, 01:27 AM   #5
Rich Z
Hah! So instead of a snake that would have two heads and try to eat twice as much, you have one snake with two tails that would crap twice as much!

In all the years and thousands of snakes I have hatched out, I have never hatched a two headed or two tailed animal. You would think the odds would be that at least one would pop up. Not that I want one, though, but it is just interesting how odds work.

Kinks and twists and turns, one eyes, funky jaws, bug eyes, yeah I get them once in a while....



 
Old 06-12-2003, 10:25 AM   #6
bmm
That last photo is really weird. It looks like it was alive when you took that shot???

bmm
 
Old 06-12-2003, 12:34 PM   #7
Rich Z
In both of the photos, the animals are alive.
 
Old 06-12-2003, 12:41 PM   #8
Darin Chappell
That bug-eyed one was an opal, wasn't it? Did it live long, or did you put it down?
 
Old 06-13-2003, 09:20 AM   #9
limey
there definately seesm to be a gene whcih controls eye size i swear some of the corns i have seen semm to have large eyes whcih protrude from the head ever so slightly. Though i have never seen anything like that last photo. Poor little guys.
 
Old 06-13-2003, 10:58 PM   #10
Iris
Rich, did those ever eat? Did they have trouble moving around?
How long did both of them survive?
 

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