A two-headed snake identified as Ben and Jerry, has been seen on camera consuming two mice with both of its mouths open at the same time.
Both of the modified serpent’s heads grabs a dead rat and nibbles on it.
Taking to his Instagram page, reptile expert, Brian Barczyk took a video of the two-headed snake in Michigan, US, and shared the video.
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Brian Barczyk : “So my two-headed snake Ben and Jerry are both eating right now. They don’t always eat at the same time actually, in this case both of them are eating each side.”
He went on to explain that 99 percent of two-headed animals do not live to be one year old.
He added that he got the snake from a friend after he recognixed that it was starange.
“A friend produced them. It is a freak of nature and totally unexpected. It took me 1 1/2 years of begging before he sold them to me.
“We have about 10 one-of-a-kind animals [in the Reptarium] including Ben and Jerry, also a two headed turtle, and several one-of-a-kind albino and other colour mutations.” he added.
This phenomenon is called bicephaly and it is very rare but happens during embryo development when two monozygotic twins failed to separate, leaving the heads conjoined onto a single body.
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