Two-Headed Neotropical Fruit Bat
These male twin bats were found under a mango tree in the forest of Viana municipality in Brazil. X-rays and ultrasonic images showed that they share two complete front limbs and two fully formed hind limbs, like a regular bat, but have two separate spines and two different hearts.
This is the third pair of conjoined twin bats recorded. In general, bats were studied in labs and out in the wild, but researchers also found out the placenta was still attached to the shared body, confirming that they were either stillborn or died just after birth. When a fruit bat can’t have at least one mango, spending his last days looking at many mangoes must have been fulfilling. That’s so much fruit to last eternity!