罕见的双头响尾蛇在新泽西州被拯救

Rare,Two-Headed Rattlesnake Named 'Double Dave' Rescued from Certain Doom in NewJersey

Four eyes, two tongues,can't lose.

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Double Dave, a rare two-headed babyrattlesnake, was rescued from New Jersey's Pine Barrens a few weeks ago and isnow being raised in captivity.

Twoherpetologists in New Jersey — both named Dave — have discovered a rare,two-headed snake, which they've named Double-Dave. Members ofthe Nobel Prizecommittee: The ball is in yourcourt.

Double-Dave isa babyrattlesnake, just a few weeks old and about 9inches (23 centimeters) long, according toa recent segment on ABCNews.Herpetologists Dave Schneider and Dave Burkett, who work with theHerpetological Associates in Pemberton, New Jersey, found the critter a fewweeks ago while surveying the nearby Pine Barrens — a heavily forested areastretching across the southern tip of the state.

With twoindependent heads and one shared body,bicephalic animalslike D-D rarely survive tomaturity in the wild; decisions as simple as whether to slither left or right,or which head gets to eat first, suddenly become staggering battles of will,leaving bicephalic animals especially vulnerable to predators. Knowing this,the Daves decided to take the young snake back to their office, where they'vebeen feeding and caring for it for several weeks.

So far, it seems, Double-Dave is getting along withhimself in his new home.

DoubleDave (left) with Double Dave (right).

"It appears the head on the right side is the moredominant one," Schneider told ABC News. "But every once in a while,the other head will want to go in a different direction."

Double-Daveappears healthy, though Schneider and his colleagues hope toX-raythe creature soon to find out ifit has a fully formed digestive system.

While livingexamples of bicephalic animals like Double-Dave are rare, two-headed creaturesare born more often than you might think. Last September,a two-headed viperwas found slithering around aresidential garden in Virginia; X-rays revealed the creature had two tracheasand two esophagi leading to a shared heart and set of lungs.

Before that,atwo-headed deer was founddeadin theMinnesota backwoods, anda two-headed porpoisewas hauled up from the North Seain 2017. Bicephalic animals have even crossed the frontier into space: Lastyear, a flatworm — a species of worm that can regrow into complete individualsafter being cut into pieces —grew a second head on itsbuttwhile riding aboard the International Space Station.

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真有这种生物？

看到能吓死我

长得挺好

还以为是那种长在两头的呢

连体婴而已

楼主还是把你的热门培训网站分享给我们吧，都等了几年了 iOS fly ~

感谢分享
另外生病的童鞋好了么？

回复8#pureblack

同问……

我一看到也想起来了

九头蛇万岁!

这畸形竟然能长这么大，两个脑袋谁控制的身体呢……

以前在恐龙特急克塞号里面见过这个，还以为编出来的呢

好久没看到楼主了。小孩现在好了没。家有儿女看不得小孩生病的帖子

回复16#lvxin
人家不说，你不要主动瞎问好吗？这样很不礼貌 iOS fly ~

天降瑞祥，必有真命天子，不对，是耶稣转世降临人间。。。

川皇什么时候需要劝进表，我可以用百度给你翻译成英文

吃东西的时候是不是走哪个嘴都一样

双倍快乐啊

涨知识了

我的疑问是，到底是哪个头指挥身体的爬行呢？

双核，多线程 iOS fly ~

双黄蛋

回复6#redmonkey

怎么拉巴巴

俩脑袋同时吃两个巨大的东西
脖子是不是就撑破了

hail hydra

真想看看这个蛇的骨骼构造

那谁来发一张地狱三头犬的照片。 来自西部世界

两个头会不会强身体控制权?

我有个朋友，前几天也发过一个小视频，也是双头蛇，不过头部比这个长一些。好像是普通蛇，不是毒蛇。

楼主，加你微信了