05 September 2009

Conjoined rattlesnakes


I am gobsmacked that rattlers congenitally joined at the head could hunt well enough to survive to adulthood (unless they were handraised at the museum?). They have now been surgically separated; story at the link.

Credit to Tucson news station, via The New Shelton wet/dry.

2 comments:

  1. Are they conjoined at their tails or at their tails? ;)

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  2. They were conjoined at the head, and although the surgery seemed successful at first, one of the snakes apparently was weaker and has died....

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