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3:52am July 9, 2013
odditiesoflife: The Two-Headed Turtle at the San Antonio Zoo Meet Thelma and Louise, the tiny Texas cooter. The emerald green turtle, which arrived on June 18, has two heads conjoined near the neck. Zoo officials named the Texas cooter Thelma and Louise, in tribute to the 1991 movie starring Susan Sarandon and Geena Davis about a female duo on the run. The turtle, which is actually a pair of unseparated twins, is healthy and eating with both heads. You can read more about this creature here Why is it with humans the media is careful to be plural about conjoined twins (kids teasing them, OTOH, probably just say “ha ha you have two hands” :-/ ), but with animals they treat it as one animal with two heads? I mean they actually said they’re twins here, but usually they don’t.

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The Two-Headed Turtle at the San Antonio Zoo

Meet Thelma and Louise, the tiny Texas cooter. The emerald green turtle, which arrived on June 18, has two heads conjoined near the neck. Zoo officials named the Texas cooter Thelma and Louise, in tribute to the 1991 movie starring Susan Sarandon and Geena Davis about a female duo on the run. The turtle, which is actually a pair of unseparated twins, is healthy and eating with both heads.

You can read more about this creature here

Why is it with humans the media is careful to be plural about conjoined twins (kids teasing them, OTOH, probably just say “ha ha you have two hands” :-/ ), but with animals they treat it as one animal with two heads? I mean they actually said they’re twins here, but usually they don’t.

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    And as upsetting as it is, something like this would die in the wild
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