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Museum officials say that one of the snakes was "lame," and that in order for the healthy snake to survive, the two would have to be separated.
No problem right? Not quite.
"Any time you deal with animals in surgery, you don't know how long the anesthesia will last or how it will affect them," Ivanyi says. "They can awaken agitated and unpredictable."
Today, veterinarians at the museum managed to remove the lame snake from the healthy one, without pissing the deadly serpent off too much, and he will be put on display at the museum as soon as he is up and slithering.
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