Originally published at: Janus the two-headed tortoise turned 25 | Boing Boing
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Janus is a great and appropriate name for this very cute tortoise.
But don’t two-headed animals deserve two separate names? Conjoined human twins, even the rare ones who share a single central body, generally get separate names.
Proving the link to the Reuters article you quote would be most helpful.
Sure, you could argue that, but I think naming the turtle after the god who is always depicted as having two faces is very appropriate.
Their competitive eating of the lettuce:
When two tortoises go to war, one shell is all that you can score.
Since each head has its own brain, does this make the tortoise a combined 50 years old?
Came here for this.
Of course, you could always ask him…
Badum, tish!
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