This king’s serpent of California was born at the East Bay Vivarium, in Berkeley, and his heads bear the names of Zeke and Angel.
To be seen in the video related to the text.
Each head can control the body, however Angel has a dominant head. Zeke and Angel come from the same embryo that has separated, which led to the development of the two heads whose vertebral columns are merged.
“As you can see, they both think of different things. Sometimes we see them arguing, as if one wanted to go to the right and the other on the left. ”
– Angel Hamilton, employee of the East Bay Vivarium
The probabilities of a birth of a two -headed snake are 1 in 100,000 and the mortality rate is very high at the start of life.
The owner of the Vivarium, Alex Blancherd, explained to the ABC News channel in a report broadcast Thursday that at this stage, the reptile has good chance of having the average life expectancy of a king serpent, that is to say from 20 to 30 years.
A two -headed serpent Ratier who lives in a nature conservation center in Missouri also celebrated his 20th anniversary in April and will take his “retirement” of public life during a celebration at the end of the week.
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