A Missouri boy found a rare two-headed snake with two independently thinking brains, according to a report.

Cody Kannir, 10, was playing outside his home Friday when he discovered a baby black rat snake with two heads hiding in a tree stump in Delta.

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"And then I picked up a piece of wood and he was under there," Kannir said. "I said, 'Oh my gosh, it's a two-headed snake.'"

Kannir brought the snake to show and tell. But the next day, he and his mother Marilyn decided to turn over the strange find to the state's Conservation Department's Nature Center in Cape Girardeau.

Experts said the snake is only about a week old and they are having to take extra special care to feed it.

The heads may move in different directions or even try to attack each other, since the brains are independently thinking, according to the report.

"They have two different brains so they're both thinking differently. So you have to get both of them ready to eat at once and then one willing to take it to get down to their stomach," education specialist Jeremy Soucy said.

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