The Two - Headed Snake

This wonderful snake have two heads. One day one ten-year-old American boy from Kentucky tried to pick up a snake with a stick and then noticed, that it is two-headed! Imagine how surprised he was when the snake grabbed the stick with both heads!

Two-headed snakes are not as rare as you might think. They have been found in the Unated States, Argentina, Honduras, Sri Lanka and Spain.

Gordon Burdhardt, zoologist at the university of Tennessee, has studied several two-headed snakes. And every time the heads were so independent they even fought for food.
Sometimes the heads become so aggressive they can even try to eat each other!

Two-headed snakes also have a great deal of difficultly deciding which direction to do. That’s probably because one head wants to turn left and the other one wants to turn right.
A lack of understanding between two heads can lead to even greater difficulties: a predator would quickly swallow the hesitant snake.
“So their chances of surviving in the wild are nil”, – says Burdhardt. “They can be easily attacked by predators. Two heads are NOT always better than one”.
Even in captivity, there are problems. Food should be given to one head first and a moment later to the other one. If both months are busy chewing, they won’t attack each other.
On the whole, though, they can do quite well in captivity, says Burdhardt.



Thelma and Louise, a two-headed boa constrictor was born in Ney0York. Experts don’t know why she was born this way. Indy the snake has 26 brothers and sisters but because she’s one of the kind, she could one day be sold for about $500,000 to a zoo or a collector.
Right now Indy’s second head can’t eat, drink or breathe but it flicks its tongue and looks around.

The two-headed monsters of myth may have a basis in reality!

SuperAnimals !

Some animals can do much better than the famous sportsmen! Sea snakes can dive 100 meters deep and stay under the water for up to 5 hours. Some sea snakes can swim at the rate of 1 meter per second.



Incredibly, the sailfish can swim faster than a cheetah can run. Its top speed is 109 km an hour.

Squirrel monkeys sometimes leap straight into the air from the tree tops to catch insects. Sometimes these leaps are up to 60 meters.

The Shaggy Spider- Formiddable Enemy Of Birds

This being is very big (it can be for 15 cm) and poisonous. They inhabit only in the tropics. There may be roughly 600 species of spider-robbers. Some of them, which are the largest, are not poisonous for people. Another spider’s stings are mortal for people.



Big spiders hunt in the night. They don’t like sunlight and hide in the grass, under ground in the holes, under trees roots. Spiders don’t have so paws so as a mole but they can dig rather deep hole. Shaggy spiders don’t make web, they usually attack their prey. Thanks to little hairs on the spider’s paws they can climb along the trees. Spiders can fall from the highest trees and don’t hurt oneself: their paws help like a parachute. Hairs are very thin and brittle on the spider’s paws, so you don’t touch he: these hairs are like splinters and your hand can get inflamed because of them.

Where do they Get FOOD From!?

Predation is a biological interaction where a predator (a heterotroph that is hunting) feeds on its prey (the organism that is attacked). Predators may or may not kill their prey prior to feeding on them, but the act of predation always results in the death of the prey. The other main category of consumption is detritivory, the consumption of dead organic matter. It can at times be difficult to separate the two feeding behaviours, for example where parasitic species prey on a host organism and then lay their eggs on it for their offspring to feed on its decaying corpse. Selective pressures imposed on one another has led to an evolutionary arms race between prey and predator, resulting in various antipredator adaptations. Most animals feed indirectly from the energy of sunlight. Plants use this energy to convert sunlight into simple sugars using a process known as photosynthesis. Starting with the molecules carbon dioxide (CO2) and water (H2O), photosynthesis converts the energy of sunlight into chemical energy stored in the bonds of glucose (C6H12O6) and releases oxygen (O2).


These sugars are then used as the building blocks which allow the plant to grow. When animals eat these plants (or eat other animals which have eaten plants), the sugars produced by the plant are used by the animal. They are either used directly to help the animal grow, or broken down, releasing stored solar energy, and giving the animal the energy required for motion. This process is known as glycolysis. Animals who live close to hydrothermal vents and cold seeps on the ocean floor are not dependent on the energy of sunlight. Instead, chemosynthetic archaea and bacteria form the base of the food chain.

Who Classified 'em?

Aristotle divided the living world between animals and plants, and this was followed by Carolus Linnaeus (Carl von Linné), in the first hierarchical classification. Since then biologists have begun emphasizing evolutionary relationships, and so these groups have been restricted somewhat. For instance, microscopic protozoa were originally considered animals because they move, but are now treated separately.


In Linnaeus's original scheme, the animals were one of three kingdoms, divided into the classes of Vermes, Insecta, Pisces, Amphibia, Aves, and Mammalia. Since then the last four have all been subsumed into a single phylum, the Chordata, whereas the various other forms have been separated out. The above lists represent our current understanding of the group, though there is some variation from source to source.

The Scientific Definition

Animals are a major group of mostly multicellular, eukaryotic organisms of the kingdom Animalia or Metazoa. Their body plan eventually becomes fixed as they develop, although some undergo a process of metamorphosis later on in their life. Most animals are motile, meaning they can move spontaneously and independently. Most animals are also heterotrophs, meaning they must ingest other organisms for sustenance. Most known animal phyla appeared in the fossil record as marine species during the Cambrian explosion, about 542 million years ago


The word "animal" comes from the Latin word animale, neuter of animalis, and is derived from anima, meaning vital breath or soul. In everyday colloquial usage, the word usually refers to non-human animals[citation needed]. The biological definition of the word refers to all members of the Kingdom Animalia, including humans