Man finds two-headed snake

[Legs]

http://www.ananova.com/images/web/257675.jpg

A Chinese man who found a two-headed snake at his home is raising it as his pet.

The man, called Yang, discovered the unusual reptile in a discarded bag in his yard in Zhenyang town, Henan province.

He has decided to raise the snake in a washbasin in his family home.

Both the two heads are well-developed, and each have eyes and a mouth.

The snake, bearing red and black rings, is more than half a metre long, and as thick as an adult's thumb.

http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_1366420.html?menu=

[livius drusus]

You and your multi-headed creatures. :wink:

[godfry n. glad]

Hey....lookit that....somebody got a picture of an IIDB admin!

Two-face speak with forked tongues.

[Beth]

I bet feeding is interesting to watch.

[livius drusus]

No kidding. I wonder if the heads take turns or compete for mice or something.

[Dragoon]

Just an experiment. I know this is off topic, but how does one post pictures within a reply?

[livius drusus]

If you mean embed a picture in the way Legs did in the OP, you put the url between tags. This FAQ entry (http://www.freethought-forum.com/forum/misc.php?do=bbcode#imgcode) might be helpful to you. :)

[Legs]

Just an experiment. I know this is off topic, but how does one post pictures within a reply?

If the photo is hosted on the net... just click the http://www.freethought-forum.com/forum/images/freethought/editor/insertimage.gif icon and paste the photo address into the box that pops up... click ok and you are off to the races...

[godfry n. glad]

http://www.freethought-forum.com/forum/gallery/showimage.php?i=310&c=25

Test

http://www.freethought-forum.com/forum/gallery/showimage.php?i=310&c=25

Well... That sux.

:404:

[Dragoon]

Thanks for the tips. Sorry to take up space, but here goes.
http://www.freethought-forum.com/forum/attachment.php?attachmentid=451&stc=1

Hummm. It worked, but I still got a thumbnail.

OK, that worked.

http://www.freethought-forum.com/forum/attachment.php?attachmentid=451&stc=1

By George, I think I've got it!!

Ok, ya-all, back to the two headed bat boy with a message of doom from Nostrodamus regarding the new pope.

Sorry for the interruption.

[TomJoe]

If the photo is hosted on the net...

And you don't mind stealing bandwidth ... ;)

[Legs]

And you don't mind stealing bandwidth ... ;)

Hey, they should be paying me to link their site and bring in all that traffic for them ;)

Good thing I'm so nice and won't send them an invoice

[TomJoe]

And you don't mind stealing bandwidth ... ;)

Hey, they should be paying me to link their site and bring in all that traffic for them ;)

Good thing I'm so nice and won't send them an invoice

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Hmmm ... to contact or not to contact Ananova. Unfortunately, if I contact Ananova, it's likely that FF would get in trouble before you.

[livius drusus]

Use this url (http://www.freethought-forum.com/images/twoheadedsnake.jpg) instead, Legs. :)

[Legs]

Use this url (http://www.freethought-forum.com/images/twoheadedsnake.jpg) instead, Legs. :)
I think I've seen enough snakes today liv :yup:

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Hmmm ... to contact or not to contact Ananova. Unfortunately, if I contact Ananova, it's likely that FF would get in trouble before you. We've established in this thread (http://www.freethought-forum.com/forum/showthread.php?t=2597) that linking images does not count as a copyright violation in any sense of the word. How many times must we go over this before you'll get over yourself?

[Legs]

How many times must we go over this before you'll get over yourself?

Apparently, at least one more time :D

[livius drusus]

That's unfair, y'all. He posted that 6 hours ago.

[Corona688]

That's unfair, y'all. He posted that 6 hours ago. I checked the times, this blatant threat was well after he posted his image-link thread. If he goes around picking fights, he'll get what he's looking for.

[livius drusus]

Sure it was after he posted the thread, but it was long before you ever posted in it so your "how many times must we go over this" comment doesn't apply. Besides, if that's picking a fight, then the bar has been lowered far more than I ever imagined possible.

[Corona688]

Besides, if that's picking a fight, then the bar has been lowered far more than I ever imagined possible.Hmmm ... to contact or not to contact Ananova. Unfortunately, if I contact Ananova, it's likely that FF would get in trouble before you. Is that or is that not a threat?

[livius drusus]

Is that or is that not a threat?

Boh. You'd have to ask him. I can't say I found it particularly threatening. Looks more like trying to make a rhetorical point to me, but perhaps Legs felt differently. :shrug:

In any case, even if he were on the verge of alerting the authorities to this breach most foul, it would still fall pretty low on my internet fight scale. Maybe I'm just jaded, but it seems to me the IIDB admins would have more reason to feel randomly assaulted for no discernible reason than anyone else in this thread.

[Gurdur]

Boh. You'd have to ask him. I can't say I found it particularly threatening.
It may not have been particularly threatening in effectuality, but it was certainly a threat meant, and what I find inexplicable about TomJoe's behaviour is that it was so childish, so petty, such a small issue in this thread for him to get so worked up over.
Maybe I'm just jaded, but it seems to me the IIDB admins would have more reason to feel randomly assaulted for no discernible reason than anyone else in this thread.
Mind if I ask why ?

[livius drusus]

It may not have been particularly threatening in effectuality, but it was certainly a threat meant, and what I find inexplicable about TomJoe's behaviour is that it was so childish, so petty, such a small issue in this thread for him to get so worked up over.

Fair enough.

Mind if I ask why ?

Because they were flamed en masse.

[Gurdur]

Because they were flamed en masse.
Ah. I see what you mean.

[The Lone Ranger]

Unfortunately, the picture isn't too good, so it's difficult to tell for sure, but it appears to be a member of the genus Rhabdophis, probably Rhabdophis tigrinus -- commonly known as the Yamakagashi, Japanese Garter Snake, or Tiger Keelback. If it is a yamakagashi, Yang might want to be careful feeding it, as they're mildly venomous.

When two-headed animals have been observed while feeding, since each head has an independently-functioning brain the two heads generally do compete with each other for food.

Cheers,

Michael

[livius drusus]

Is there a dominant head, Micheal, do you know? Do they fight at all? I find it very hard to grok exactly how this poor fellow (these poor fellows?) is going to go about the business of living.

[The Lone Ranger]

As far as I know, in such cases there's no particular tendency for one head to be dominant. I've read of cases in which the two heads would both grab at food items and engage in a fierce tug-of-war over their food, often ripping it apart in the process.

I've read of cases in which two-headed animals did, in fact, suffer from the condition, because the two heads would compete so fiercely for food that they had trouble feeding themselves. Such a condition is rare enough in the first place, so it's not surprising that you rarely encounter such animals in the wild. I wouldn't imagine that a two-headed animal would be likely to survive for very long in the wild. (Suppose a predator appears and the two heads disagree over which direction to flee?)



By the way, if it is a yamakagashi, Yang should be careful not to annoy it. I did some checking: they're apparently very docile snakes that rarely bite even when provoked, but there have been recorded instances of people dying from their bites.

Cheers,

Michael