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Two-headed snake goes on sale

11 January 2006

A REMARKABLE two-headed snake dubbed We is being auctioned on the internet by the World Aquarium with the aim of raising at least $150,000 for community education and environmental programmes in St Louis, Missouri. The reptile, a metre-long albino rat snake (Elaphe obsoleta) has survived for six years thanks to a crash course in table manners.

“We hope she will go to someone who will do more research into how a two-headed snake sees the world,” aquarium director Louis Sonnenschein told Âé¶¹´«Ã½.

Two-headed snakes seldom survive long because of difficulties in feeding. To help We survive, Sonnenschein…

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