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nategodin
at Sun Oct 30 09:32:48 2011 [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by nategodin ]
Very cool! It (they?) got out of the egg alive and appears healthy, so that already puts them in the top 5% of all dicephalic snakes. This gaigeae I produced a few years ago was in the unlucky 95% that die before or shortly after hatching due to internal deformities.
You should contact Van Wallach at the Harvard Museum of Comparative Zoology, especially if you live in the Boston area and can visit the museum. He's an expert on two-headed snakes, and a really cool and interesting guy to talk to. Most of his collection is preserved specimens, but he has a dicephalic Eastern milksnake that was found in Maine. The picture below is from 2007, but I saw it again last year at a reptile show in Massachusetts, so as far as I know, it's still alive and healthy.
Van Wallach at Harvard MCZ
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