Two-headed bobtail lizard found in Australia
It's been a while since we've had a decent two-headed animal on these pages. So, without further ado, we proudly present… the two-headed lizard.
The two-headed bobtail (a type of skink native to Australia, also known as the Shingleback) was rescued in Coogee, New South Wales, by workers from a reptile park.
Now housed at the reptile park in Henley Brook, Perth, it's doing well - despite the fact that two-headed lizards tend to not have very long life expectancies.
The lizard - which doesn't just have two heads, but has a set of forelegs on either side of each head - is even able to eat with both mouths.
The major downside of having two heads is that it makes moving around quite difficult, and the larger of the two heads has a tendency to try and attack the smaller head.
The bobtail's brother, who has just the one head, is also housed at the park.
Source:- Metro.co.uk
5 comments:
Very interesting. I hope it lives a long happy life in captivity.....
I might be safe to say the heads display aggression toward each other. Establishing "hate" would require much more research.
Great article infused with sarcasm. Poor little lizard. I don't imagine that it would have a very long life expectancy with just one head either. Ah well, circle of life and all.
I take issue with the notion that it's a two-headed lizard. What "it" is is two lizards stuck in one body.
A bit like our country right now.
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