A exceptional serpent specimen has been turning heads – actually – at Cameron Park Zoo in Texas after recovering from a neck harm.
A household outdoors of Waco discovered the two-faced critter, a western rat snake of their yard again in 2016 they usually donated him to the zoo.
The snake in all probability wouldn’t have survived lengthy within the wild as he has two brains that always give conflicting instructions to his physique, so his actions are extra sporadic and uncoordinated than typical one-headed snakes.
He also can simply injure his neck by attempting to go in several instructions and getting caught on branches, rocks, and different obstacles.
This isn’t only a downside within the wild, as in February of 2021 workers on the zoo found a wound on his left neck. It took till June final yr for the wound to completely heal and one other yr till he was totally recovered and able to meet the general public once more.