Saturday, May 12, 2012

Two-headed animals

Two-headed animals
Frank and Louie, a gray feline with two mouths, two noses and three eyes,
turned 12 years old and is the world's oldest, living two-faced cat.


Frank and Louie (one name for each face) walks by its owner Marty, at their
home in Massachusetts.


Leonard Sonnenschein, president of the World Aquarium in St. Louis, holds a two-headed
albino rat snake. The eight-year-old oddity of nature was known affectionately by fans
worldwide as "We" died of natural causes in 2007.


Oct. 28, 2011 photo provided by Daniel Parker of Sunshineserpents.com, a two-headed albino
Honduran milk snake is shown in Ridge Manor, Fla. Parker, a University of Central Florida biologist,
says that most two-headed snakes have typical coloration. Albino snakes don't have dark pigmentation
in their skin. Albino milk snakes appear in bright shades of red, orange and white.

A turtle born with two heads and an extra set of legs between them is held by an employee of a Jenkintown,
Pa., pet store on Sept. 22, 1986. The owner of the store said while it was the strangest thing he’d ever seen
he had no idea how long it would live.

Hakob Avetyan (not pictured) holds a two-headed calf in the Armenian village of Sotk, on January 28, 2011.
The two-headed calf was born on January 25 in the Avetyans' cow house. Two-headed people and animals,
though rare, have long been known to exist, and been documented.

An official shows a two-headed baby crocodile at Samut Prakarn Crocodile Farm on the outskirt of Bangkok Monday, June 25, 2001. The crocodile, which shares the bottom part of the body, has eight legs and two tails,was born at this farm three days ago. It is measured at 17-centimeter long and weighs at 70 grams.

A Palestinian farmer holds a two-headed sheep outside his family home in the West Bank al-Fawar refugee camp near Hebron, on November 9, 2008.

An unnamed two headed bobtail lizard, a type of skink, is seen at its new reptile park home at Henley Brook on April 22, 2010 in Perth, Australia. The two-headed reptile was rescued from Coogee by the Park and appears to be doing well, despite the life expectancy of such mutated births to be short. It eats from both heads but the larger head has also tried to attack the smaller one, and its movement is difficult as both heads control its back legs. It also has a healthy sibling without any mutation. Bobtails give birth to live offspring, rather than laying eggs.