Two-Headed Cobra Found By Chinese....Uh.... Sssssnapping At The Other Head

By R. Siva Kumar - 12 Aug '15 13:36PM

A South China snake-breeder suddenly found a baby two-headed Chinese cobra in a snake-farm in Yulin, according to discovery.

At first, he was excited, hoping to earn something from it. But soon, he realized the snake was neither going eat nor drink water, so he decided to hand it over the Nanning Zoo specialists.

It is thin as a pencil and sports a dark brown body. It has still not eaten, said a Nanning Zoo official. Being 20 centimeters long and alive for 10 days, it has shed its skin just once, they said.

Both heads with separate brains would move independently and sometimes look angrily at each other, in S shapes. They would then butt the other head.

The cobra might grow into the standard length of 1.2 meters, yet what if each head eats the other? Or it dies of infection?

The snake's keeper, Li Keqi at the Zoo said: "The snake has been alive for 10 days now and has been with us for two, during which time it has already changed its skin once," according to ibtimes.

"But even though the snake is in stable condition now, there is no way of telling whether it will be able to live on, as it still does not eat or drink water."

Polycephaly, which is the state of having two heads, is fairly common among snakes. Most polycephalic snakes live for just a few months, though one of them lived for 20 years, according to dailymail.