Two-headed cobra born in China

A two-headed cobra has been born in China. Such anomalies among snakes are rare but they do happen. As far as anyone knows, this is the first incidence of such an occurrence with a cobra.


The owner of the snake is one Mr. Liu, a railroad worker who breeds snakes as a hobby. He bought 10 snake eggs to hatch at his home in Jiangxi province in eastern China.

He got the surprise of his life when he first saw the reptile, which is able to eat out of both sides of its mouth simultaneously.

“When the cobras hatched out, one of them had two heads. The cobra is able to eat using both of its mouths…Its four eyes were cloudy at birth, but that will change when the snake sheds its skin for the first time,” said Liu.

Snakes born two heads have been known to live up to 20 years in captivity, and Thelma and Louise, a two-headed snake that lived at the San Diego Zoo in California, had 15 offspring during her lifetime. Still, these snakes have many difficulties, and two heads aren’t better than one in this instance.



The major problem with this anomaly is that both snake heads have to decide they are 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 matters even more complicated, since snakes operate by smell, if one head catches the scent of prey on the other’s head, it may attack and try to swallow its second head!

Snakes with two heads occur in the same way Siamese twins are born to humans. A developing embryo starts out normally as it begins to split into identical twins, but then for some unknown reason that process is interrupted part way, leaving the twins joined. Variations occur at the point the embryo ceases to separate, and snakes, just like Siamese twins, can be joined at the breast, hip or head.

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SO THE FATHER OF THE COBRA IS CALLED BABA IBEJI

.Nothing New here... Its been happening for a very long time


- Two headed Albino Hunduran Milk Snake..


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cobra equivalent of siamese twin

Na dem sabi. If not china e go be India.

Chinese man breeding cobra?
Hmmm too much Indian films has led him into taking cobras for toys,I pity am make those cobras grow finish first.

Wow!!

India?

datz God 4 u.

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dack7: datz God 4 u.

My friend shattap dia
My cat has a better chance of growing 5 heads than your God

why wud the eediot start breeding snakes of all animals??mtcheeew...

#INSANITY AT ITS PEAK

obadiah777: SO THE FATHER OF THE COBRA IS CALLED BABA IBEJI

Yes. God bless Nigeria.

*Ileke-IdI:


My friend shattap dia
My cat has a better chance of growing 5 heads than your God

Kare omoluabi,asotan oro lo so yen o.
Ileke ja si oko,ma ja si ile.
Ibi kan naa sha lo ma jasi.

Mo pa ilu fun e.

obadiah777: SO THE FATHER OF THE COBRA IS CALLED BABA IBEJI

yes na him to get twins for house na

Vet. doctors should tell us if they can be operated upon for them to live single cos the wrestle for food will be terrible especially for d fact that they get hungry at d same time

dack7: datz god 4 u.

.. which god b dat

Okay naw!!!! Bizarre stories like ds no de pass white ppl land

Ticklishmummy:

Kare omoluabi,asotan oro lo so yen o.
Ileke ja si oko,ma ja si ile.
Ibi kan naa sha lo ma jasi.

Mo pa ilu fun e.

Only in Nigeria and China that some things do happen!

Ewww...rabbish!!! 2heads...wahala go dey oh...
End Time??

#to the two headed snake# I'm the BOSS, how you like me now Bi*ch?

See head.

Yuck!

Genetic mutations, the one with three heads is questionable

jude33084: Genetic mutations, the one with three heads is questionable

India does not want to be outdone

O boy... If this kyn snake bite person, na die ooo...

How do you run away from a snake?

For crocodiles, you run in zigzag, but for snake nko?

circle, square,?

Just looking at this photos got me feeling creepy all over, snakes I don't like! Snakes with 2 head gosh! Downright creppy!