Rare two-headed snake born at Berkeley pet store beating the odds: Meet Angel and Zeke

They person managed to past for 7 months, contempt these creatures having an incredibly debased endurance complaint successful aboriginal life.

BERKELEY, Calif. (KGO) -- A uncommon occurrence of 2 brains successful 1 assemblage astatine a Berkeley favored store.

One hatchling calved astatine East Bay Vivarium turned retired to beryllium a two-headed snake.

They're antheral California kings with a fused spine, named Zeke and Angel, and their commencement was a 1 successful 100,000 occurrence.

Further beating the odds, they person managed to past for 7 months, contempt these creatures having an incredibly debased endurance complaint successful aboriginal life.

"At this constituent we expect to live, you know, a emblematic king snake's beingness span is 20 to 30 years. We deliberation these guys volition beryllium present conscionable arsenic long," Alex Blancherd, East Bay Vivarium owner.

"Like you tin see, they're some reasoning antithetic things. Sometimes you tin spot them fight, similar 1 wants to spell right, 1 wants to spell left," said Angel Hamilton, East Bay Vivarium employee.

They some person power implicit the body, but Angel is the ascendant head.

They're conscionable similar conjoined twins - meaning a azygous embryo partially divided during their development.

East Bay Vivarium does not program to merchantability the snake. It'll turn to beryllium astir 4 feet long.