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This morning on Fox News' Fox and Friends,they had a small story of the world's only two headed Boa Constrictor. It was born at the Bronx(?) zoo,and they said it should survive into adulthood.
The snake was a red-tail but I couldn't tell from what region.It was very gray though.One of the "heads" looked more resposive the the other.
I don't know if Fox and Freinds will show the story again, the show starts at 6am eastern, so thats 3am for me. I actually just woke up and saw the preview of the story. If your interested try the Fox News site, and go to fox and friends. Something might be there.

Actually there was a 2-headed boa at the Daytona show. I got to see it up close and only one of the heads was functional. I took pics but I can't seem to find them. I'll post them if I do.

I was only going by what news said. You know how well they research stuff. Maybe Jason Blair did the reporting?!
Thanks for letting me know about the other one.

the 2 headed boa from the news story and the one from daytona r one in the same snake...Bred by Robert Shapiro in N.Y//I have seen the snake in person and it is something to behold..It has only one complete functional haed..the other cannot eat..has no throat..but it flicks its tongue and does move

i found a pic of the two headed boa that was posted here on kingsnake. i believe it is the one that was at the daytona show. there was one there but i did not take a pic.

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DAILY NEWS (New York, New York) 16 September 03 With 2 heads, moa boa to love!
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Today's lesson is: What goes around, comes around.
And sometimes it comes with two heads.
Robert Shapiro, owner of an East Village T-shirt shop, can attest to this. When not devising morally upright T-shirts - "No child is born a racist," "There's more to life than looking like a Gap ad," etc. - he spends his spare time rescuing unwanted reptiles. And this summer, one of them - a constrictor - gave birth to a bouncing baby boa.
With two heads.
It is the only known two-headed boa in the world, worth hundreds of thousands of dollars.
"It's like a normal boa with a growth along its neck that happens to be a head," says Shapiro, 46, opening the takeout coffee cup in which he keeps baby Indy, who was born on July 4, along with 27 single-headed siblings.
Though boas are illegal in the city, Shapiro had brought her in from his reptile rehab facility on Long Island for her first date with the media. "Isn't she beautiful?" he asked.
Let's just say she's a lot cuter than the tortoises in his window and especially the lizard on his basement floor - supposedly slow and blind - that lunged at my toes.
"He's fine as long as you don't put your foot in front of him," Shapiro mentions as an afterthought. Hmph.
Social Tees, his shoebox-sized shop, is filled with rescued animals like this. Most he adopts out. But he'll sell a few of the fanciest to help finance his rescue operations.
Indy is, of course, at the top of the list. In a few months, when she's old enough to be adopted safely, Shapiro will sell her to the highest responsible bidder.
Already, word of Indy's hissssstoric appearance is spreading through the reptile world. Buyers have called from Asia and Israel. They are even more intrigued when they learn that Indy is odd, even by only-creature-on-Earth standards.
One swallows, other doesn't
While her main head functions normally, her auxiliary noggin is just too weird. The eyes move and its tongue flicks, indicating it has its own brain.
But unlike other "normal" two-headed snakes - and there have been a few in smaller breeds, like the king snake - Indy's second head doesn't have a throat.
Head No. 2 is basically kept alive by Head No. 1, the same way your own arms are kept alive by the air and food your head takes in.
"I've been around the block," says Bronx Zoo herpetologist Frank Indiviglio, who has visited Indy. "There are millions of snakes out there. But this is the only one [like this] I've ever seen."
Indy's existence is shocking, yes. But maybe not so surprising. When you live a life like Shapiro's - teaching tolerance and rescuing the reviled - karma sometimes comes curled in a coffee cup, looking up with four twinkling eyes.
With 2 heads, moa boa to love!