Yangzi Evening News Network November 29 news (correspondent Zhou Qin reporter Wang Guozhu) On the afternoon of November 28, Mr. Zhang, a citizen of Taizhou, went fishing by the Zhibao River as usual. From time to time, there was a suspicious baby crying nearby, he followed the sound and found a strange fish with four legs lying motionless in the water, the sound was actually made by this fish, and he quickly called the police. After the police arrived at the scene, they used the basin to fish up the strange fish, and after expert identification, the strange fish was a baby fish, a national second-level protected animal.
giant salamander
On the afternoon of November 28, Mr. Zhang came to the Zhibao River in the eastern part of the city to fish, during the fishing process he always heard a kind of baby-like crying, but there was no one around, after carefully discerning the sound was from the river, he searched along the river, and found a strange fish with four legs at the stone, lying motionless in the water, and the cry was from here, Mr. Zhang was surprised, so he immediately called the police for help.
The police are dispatched
Taizhou Hailing Public Security Chengdong Police Station after receiving the police, quickly rushed to the scene, only to see this strange fish about 70 cm long, with frog-like limbs, catfish-like mouth, the whole body without scales, black brown, with mobile phone photo query, found that it is suspected of baby fish.
The police immediately contacted the Taizhou Zoo, and after preliminary identification by experts, it was confirmed that this was a giant salamander, which belonged to the national second-level protected animal, commonly known as "baby fish". Because the baby fish was motionless, the police were worried that the baby fish might be injured, and under the guidance of experts, they carefully carried the baby fish to the bucket with their hands and brought it back to the police station for temporary placement.
Experts said that under normal circumstances, the baby fish is a long-term life in the cave in the Clear Creek, and the room temperature can not exceed twenty-three degrees Celsius, Taizhou's wild waters are not suitable for the growth of baby fish, this time in the wild waters baby fish is very rare, the next step, they intend to send this baby fish to the Jiangsu Provincial Fisheries Department for further study and observation.
It is reported that the baby fish, scientifically known as the giant salamander, is the largest and most precious amphibian in the world. Its call is very similar to the cry of a baby, so people call it a baby fish. In China, baby fish is a national second-level protected animal, and it is strictly forbidden to catch, trade and eat.
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