NEGRO KILLS FREAK SNAKE
South Carolina has a snake With two heads. This is no figment of the imagination, but a reality. J. A. Crawford, director of physical education at the University of South Cdrolina, received it recently from a negro in Edgefield County, who killed it in capturing it. ' • ' The snake had a head perfectly formed at each end of its body, which was about 30in long. Mr. Crawford said the negro's account of the snake's being able to raise both heads and-protrude its tongues probably was true. He doubted, however, a statement by the negro that the reptile could crawl in either direction.
Dr. Raymond L. Ditmare, of the Zoological Gardens in New York, has requested, the snake for study, ,
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Auckland Star, Volume LXIV, Issue 15, 19 January 1933, Page 10
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