On a given day, as many as 300 people pay $10 to $15 to visit the zoo. Orange nonprofit offers service dog certification after airlines ban emotional support animals Jimmy Panetta’s monarch butterfly legislation signed into law Rare sight: Killer whales show up 4 miles off Orange County coast This ‘bizarre’ creature is a massive sunfish spotted near Laguna Beach Related Articlesīig Bear-area closure begins as bald eagles work on nest The snake (or snakes) reside with hundreds of other permanent residents at The Reptile Zoo – including alligators, pythons, cobras, vipers, turtles, tortoises, boas, bearded dragons, geckos, skinks, frogs, toads, catfish and tarantulas. That girl also takes charge of chomping food while her other half simply enjoys the nutrients. One sibling seems to be the boss, telling her agreeable sister what to do and when to do it. “This snake has a dominate brain that makes the decisions,” Brewer said.
Wryly citing doctor-patient confidentiality, he added, “Their shrinks aren’t allowed to tell me.”īut, so far, the newbies don’t appear to be experiencing sibling rivalry. “I don’t know how snakes feel about having two heads,” Brewer said. That may sound like a frustrating existence. “When that happened, the body would just vibrate in place, going nowhere until one side gave in.” “The two brains might want to go in different directions,” he said.
One might want to wriggle this way and the other that way.īrewer’s bicephalic California king’s pair of noggins would “get into a mental argument with each other,” Brewer said. One might sense hunger when the other doesn’t.
While their brains are independent, the snakes share everything else – including a digestive system.īut wrap your solo head around this mind-boggling factoid: Each brain has its own wits about it. Like humans born conjoined, two-headed – or, bicephalic – snakes are identical twins that did not fully separate. One snake or two? Rare double-headed serpent presents brain-teaser – Orange County Register
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