The moment one head of a corn snake bites the other grows on the same body to eat it into the photographer’s camera.
Photographer Matthijs Kuijpers, 43, photographed an unusual bipedal corn snake in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, the Daily Star reported on October 13. Matthijs, who has been raising and breeding snakes since the age of 10, says the 0.8-meter-long snake is around 18 months old.
“I have photographed wild animals all over the world and this is the first time I have photographed a living bipedal snake. Bipedal animals are a defect of nature, called polycephaly. The two heads sometimes compete for the same prey, they just contradict the food, but normally they seem to get along well, ”says Matthijs.
Polycephaly is very rare in nature, but can occur with the same process of producing Siamese twins in humans. The two ends of the forager are independent, which leads to separate heads competing for food. They can live 20 years in captivity, but are difficult to live for long in the wild.
Corn snakes often live in the wilds of America. They feed on small rats, reptiles, amphibians and bird eggs. They have no venom and kill their prey by squeezing them.
