Grand Kaimada Island
There is a terrifying island in Brazil, which is 35 kilometers away from São Paulo, the largest city in Brazil.
Because there is no human activity on the island, the trees are lush and the scenery is pleasant, but it is definitely not a holiday destination, on the contrary, it is one of the most dangerous islands in the world, which can be said to be a purgatory on earth.
If humans venture to the island, they basically can't live for more than an hour, it is the big Kaimada Island, folk called Brazil Snake Island.
lighthouse
In 1909, Brazil's navy took great risks to build a lighthouse on the island in order to pilot the sea, and later hired a family of five— a couple and their three children — to guard the lighthouse.
But one night, not knowing whether the door was closed or for whatever reason, several poisonous snakes crawled into their house and bit the man. The others fled in a panic, and were bitten to death by poisonous snakes on the side of the road or hanging from trees, and none of them survived.
When the Navy landed on the island to check, they found the bodies of the family of five lying in 5 different places, all bitten by poisonous snakes, and then had to transform the lighthouse into an automated operation.
Since then, everyone has talked about the discoloration of the island, and the government has issued a ban on local residents and foreign tourists from landing on the island.
After studying Snake Island, researchers found that the density of snakes on this island has reached an astonishing 1-5 snakes per square meter, and the snakes on the island are all golden headband highly venomous snakes, the most poisonous of which is the golden spearhead pit viper, and its venom toxicity has reached 5 times that of similar poisonous snakes on land! It can be said to be the most poisonous snake in the world.
If a human is bitten, it will suffer from cerebral hemorrhage, kidney failure, and dissolution of the skin and muscles, and will die in 40 minutes without injecting serum.
In fact, 11,000 years ago, the island and the land were connected together, but then because of the violent crustal movement, it was slowly separated from the land, and then the sea level rose, flooding the island and the land passage, and it became an isolated island.
Becoming an isolated island also means that there is no food source, and the island is only 430,000 square meters, the island's ecosystem is not complete, food is extremely limited, in this case, carnivores will soon prey on the island's vegetarian animals, and then can only kill each other, the food chain collapses, and it is sooner or later that the food chain collapses.
Snake hibernation
As cold-blooded animals, the venomous snakes on the island can hibernate in winter, greatly reducing the loss of energy, which will naturally gain a survival advantage on the island where food is scarce, and even because food is too scarce, some snakes have evolved the ability to sleep.
Migratory birds on the island
When they are not sleeping, they are starved by insects such as cockroaches and centipedes. In addition to this, they also have an annual migratory bird feast: migratory birds make short stops on the island when they migrate, and this is their opportunity to improve their diet and replenish their energy.
In this way, the survival of the fittest, the survival of the fittest, the viper eventually occupies the entire island.
Although migratory birds come to the island every year to give heads, it is not so easy to eat. In terms of size, the island's venomous snakes do not have an advantage, and the strategy of venomous snakes to prey on large animals is generally: bite, and then follow it until the poison attacks, and then eat heavily.
But migratory birds can fly, snakes can't keep up at all, and if the bitten migratory birds fly out of the island before the poison attack, then the final result is to fall into the sea and feed the fish. Even if you don't fly out of the island, even if you flutter a few times and fall to other places, the density of the snakes on the island will definitely become the meal of other snakes.
Migratory birds that have been bitten by venomous snakes but have not eaten
So in order to compete for food, the snakes on the island competed and began to roll inside. Only those snakes that are so poisonous that they can kill with a single blow can eat enough and have enough energy to breed offspring, while those snakes that are not strong enough to eat enough food will slowly be eliminated. This has evolved from generation to generation, and now the golden spearhead pit viper on the island is 5 times more poisonous than its land counterpart!
As a bug on Earth, there are a hundred ways for humans to destroy the poisonous snakes on the island, but this is not necessary. So the majority of netizens thought of honey badgers. Will dropping them into the island capture Snake Island?
Honey badgers are also known as flat-headed brothers, because of a temperament of life and death that is not satisfied with it. In the eyes of the flat-headed brother, even the most venomous snakes are walking hot strips, even if they are accidentally bitten by the snake, they will just sleep, wake up and find the snake and chew it up (if the snake does not go far).
Honey badgers enter snake island just like people who like to eat spicy noodles enter the spicy strip factory, have a big appetite, and will soon attack the city, occupy snake island, and then be full of warm thoughts and desires, and breed on an island with enough food and no natural enemies.
But when the number of honey badgers increases to a certain extent, the number of snakes will slowly decrease, and once the balance is broken, the honey badgers will face a food crisis, after all, the flat-headed brother cannot catch fishing and cannot catch migratory birds. And there is a predilection for young people, and at this time, cannibalism is inevitable.
As the last honey badger starves to death in the winter, the hibernating snake and the small snake that breaks out of its shell will reoccupy the entire island, so releasing the honey badger may not occupy the island for long.
In fact, compared with the various high-tech means of human beings, the creatures on the earth are more afraid of being labeled as delicious, replenishing, and able to cure diseases. After studying the island's golden spearhead pit viper, scientists found that their venom can fight high blood pressure, anti-aging and even anti-cancer potential, and applied for a patent.
After that, the price of the golden spearhead viper also rose, many people took risks, risking their lives to poach poisonous snakes on the island, in 2014, its price on the black market has risen to 10,000-30,000 US dollars, and the buyers are mostly pharmaceutical, health care researchers and rich people who like to eat wild game.
The island's most venomous golden spearhead pit viper has decreased by nearly 50 percent over the past 20 years, because only this island has one, one less to catch, and international organizations have listed it as critically endangered.
In the past, it was forbidden to land on the island for fear of people's lives, but now, it is afraid of snakes.