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Two-headed boa-constrictor adds punch to Rostock Zoo

The clap lizard was put on uncover in an enclosing in a zoo’s ape residence on Wednesday, nonetheless It was innate in Jun 2015 and is already 65 centimetres prolonged and around 65 grams in weight.

“The lizard cooking exclusively and catches food with both heads, though usually cooking with one,” pronounced a curator Antje Zimmermann.

As good as dual heads, a lizard also has dual atmosphere and food passages that join serve inside a body. In each other honour a animal usually has one organ.

“This is a biologically monument that is unequivocally spasmodic seen,” Zimmerman said.

The reason for a materialisation is that – like with conjoined tellurian twins – a fertilized egg usually splits partially.

“Depending on where a routine stops, a outcome can be dual heads, like with the snake,” Zimmermann said.

“Its unequivocally rare, though not totally odd that a lizard is innate with dual heads,” Christine Kurrle from Frankfurt Zoo confirmed, adding that conjoined snakes can live into adulthood.

Article source: http://www.thelocal.de/20160323/two-headed-snake-goes-on-show-in-rostock-zoo