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An incredible video captures the moment a two-headed snake called Ben and Jerry devours two mice in each of is fanged mouths.
Reptile enthusiast Brian Barczyk shared the clip to his Instagram account, which shows each of the heads slowly chomping down on a pair of dead mice.
The two-headed reptile is the result of a phenomenon known as bicephaly, which occurs from the incomplete splitting of an embryo.
This process also leads to conjoined twins in humans, although snakes and turtles are more commonly found with two heads and one body.
Ben and Jerry is a California Kingsnake and is one in 10,000 snakes that were born with two heads.
'99.9% of two headed animals never see their first birthday, but once they survive to adulthood, which Ben and Jerry are, they usually live a full life, Barczyk told DailyMail.com in an email.
'We expect them to live 20-25 years.'
An incredible video captures the feasting of two-headed snake named Ben and Jerry. Reptile enthusiast Brian Barczyk shared the clip to his Instagram account, which shows each of the heads slowly chomping down on a pair of dead mice
The video shows each head separately consuming its own meal during the feeding event, but the snake has only one digestive system.
Barczyk, who has been collecting reptiles since
