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TotalBiscuit
2004-11-12, 09:33 AM
Shell shock at two-headed tortoise
The two-headed tortoise
The tortoise's heads work independently of each other
A two-headed tortoise has come out of its shell in Dorset to find itself in the media spotlight.

http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/40518000/jpg/_40518409_tortoise203_sun.jpg

The unusual case of a Mediterranean spur-thighed tortoise, born two months ago in an incubator, made the headlines in various papers on Friday.

Owner John Jones, from Dorchester, who has 37 tortoises and has kept them for 55 years, said: "I was really surprised - I had never seen anything like it.

"It is perfectly healthy and is running around with all the other tortoises.

"I think each head has its own little brain because they do try to move in different directions."

Although it is an unusual case, it is not unique. In 2003 another two-headed tortoise was found in South Africa.

In the genes

And Jill Martin, of the Tortoise Trust, also hatched one in south Wales in 2001.

She said: "They are very rare but not unknown. It is believed to be a congenital, rather than incubation, problem that causes it."

"These tortoises can't be imported any more like they used to be, but there are breeders in this country.

"They will charge about �100 for a tortoise, but it is impossible to say what a conjoined tortoise would be worth."

Mr Jones, 66, from Dorchester, said he had named the tortoise Solomon and Sheba as he was not sure what sex it was.

"It likes lettuce, tomato, cucumber, cress and runner beans - but its favourite food is thistle milk," he said.

"Both heads eat and sometimes they start on the same piece of food and meet in the middle."

FlamingPotato-J
2004-11-12, 09:34 AM
It will take over the WORLD!!!! AHHH!!!

Jennyboo
2004-11-12, 09:34 AM
Omygod cool :D Thats kinda creepy :lol:

Hamma
2004-11-12, 09:43 AM
:eek:

Hezzy
2004-11-12, 11:37 AM
God damn. I was going to post this, you cunt :-(*

Sputty
2004-11-12, 11:47 AM
Cute
I love turtles and tortoises

TotalBiscuit
2004-11-12, 12:35 PM
God damn. I was going to post this, you cunt :-(*

You lose at news posting :groovy:

I'm wired into bbc.co.uk/news most of the day, so y'know ;)

TB.

Hezzy
2004-11-12, 12:37 PM
It was in the mirror for me. Saw it at dinner time.

AztecWarrior
2004-11-12, 03:07 PM
I want one.

I'll mount a helmet-guided laser beam on its shell, and it'll run around like an attack helicopter- one head moves around, the other fires.

Glaynor
2004-11-12, 03:41 PM
I want one.

I'll mount a helmet-guided laser beam on its shell, and it'll run around like an attack helicopter- one head moves around, the other fires.


That was clearly one of the best lines in a LONG time. That and Squeeky's rail comment. If I had a sig,. or got around to deciding what one would be good for me, those two would definitely be placed in it.

JetRaiden
2004-11-12, 08:21 PM
kinda reminds me of pokemon.

Rbstr
2004-11-12, 08:52 PM
lol
aztec: seeing the tactical aplicability of a twisted genetic freak tortoise.

i wonder if the head comunicate with one another neuraly, and if both minds have full control of motor functions of if one has some stuff and the other has the rest

AztecWarrior
2004-11-12, 09:33 PM
lol
aztec: seeing the tactical aplicability of a twisted genetic freak tortoise.

i wonder if the head comunicate with one another neuraly, and if both minds have full control of motor functions of if one has some stuff and the other has the rest
Speaking of tactical applications, we have to try out our bombing idea.