Conjoined twin postmortem- DUW/GRAPHIC PICS

[Northstar Herp]

So, this kind of thing doesn't come around every season, so I thought for the good of mankind, I would share the pics. I don't know if I'm gonna get thanked or yelled at for posting this, I just hope my wife doesn't get too mad when she finds out I did it right in front of the coffee maker...

Here they are the day I cut them out of the egg, four days after their clutchmate. Poor little things...

Beginning the procedure, better pic of the conjoined-ness.

They look to my carpenter's eye, to be separate, but I'll listen more to you in the know on this kind of stuff than my own opinion.

The abdomen on this one must have ruptured when I froze them. I should have put them in the fridge and done the surgery that night. Oh well, maybe next time... I can't seem to rotate this picture, but you can see it just the same.

 

[triplegex]

That's pretty interesting, thanks for posting pics.

 

[thegeckoguy23]

I'm sorry Kevin,

 

[DiscoDigi786]

Their might be some here who are made queasy by the pictures, but I think we can all agree that, scientifically speaking, it is something that is interesting to observe. Thanks for posting the pics and I'm sorry about your loss. Thanks for treating the topic and presentation tastefully.

 

[monkeytechahoo]

Very interesting. Does this happen, not often, but much is what I'm getting at I guess. The 2 groups of monkeys I work with, 1 can have twins commonly, but the other isn't known to, can but doesn't, yet we've had 1 set for the past 2yrs and 3 sets since I've worked with them in 99.

 

[SFgeckos]

Hey Kevin,

I got your message, but thought I'ld just post the information here for everyone.

Jon

 

[Northstar Herp]

Jon, that's pretty cool. Yours was very different than mine. It really looks as though mine was two geckos that just happened to be fused at the neck skin, yours looks like one gecko with two bodies. Maybe it's the same anomaly, just different looks. Anyway, that's about it from here. I just thought it was interesting...