In Maominghua Prefecture, Guangdong Province, a supermarket owner found traces of a snake in a warehouse behind a shop. After disposing of two of them on their own, he found that there were more and more snakes, so he asked firefighters to help. Firefighters spent two hours pulling out 14 more baby cobras, but never found the big snake. Therefore, the search scope was expanded, and some shops in the surrounding area and some suspicious points outside the house were checked to determine that there was no trace of snakes before the team was closed.
However, the people around them still showed concern, afraid that the big snake would retaliate against the people around him if he found out that the little snake was missing.
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After the end of the snake hunt, someone in the local area said that a friend around him once killed a snake, and as a result, there were different snakes in the family every three to five years, and sometimes there were two or three at once, and all of them were big snakes. During this period, he had returned to his hometown, and there had never been a snake in the original house, but a day or two after he returned, a large snake appeared.
Another person said: There was a news in the local (Guangdong) that a "snake" restaurant cooked snakes, and after cutting off the snake head of the cobra once, he went to dispose of the snake's body and forgot to throw the snake head into the trash. When the lady of the restaurant came to the back kitchen to handle the kitchen waste, the snake's head was "resurrected" and bit her finger. The lady boss suddenly had numb fingers and weakness in her limbs, and went to the hospital to get better after taking the serum.
In addition, some people have even moved out of "myths and legends". Here's the answer: the big snake won't take revenge! The things described by the locals above have indeed happened, but there is another mystery, and we will use science to uncover the truth behind it.
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Driving away the snake attracts more snakes, but in fact, the snake wants to "cross the tail". When a snake is in heat, it secretes pheromones (volatile, special-odoring fluids) that attract the opposite sex. If you come into contact with a snake at this moment, whether the snake is dead or not, it is easy for people to be contaminated with pheromones. The sense of smell of snakes is very sensitive, so some snakes are thousands of miles away, and the former servants come one after another to seek "cross-tail", and the illusion of "where people go, where the snakes go" appears.
Snakeheads "resurrect" to bite people because the brain is underdeveloped. Mammalian action commands are mostly innervated by the brain because we have more central nervous systems in our relatively large brain volumes. Reptiles have a small brain volume, nerves are mainly distributed throughout the body, they often "but the brain" is controlled by local nerves when they move, and it is easy to have conditioned reflexes.
For example, a doctor will hammer a knee with a small hammer, and a normal person will instinctively have a kicking action. Because the human "knee jump reflex" only passes through the spinal nerves, not the brain. After the snake's head is separated from the snake's body, the body will still twist and be controlled by local nerves. Similarly, even if the snake dies, a large number of nerves distributed on the snake's head are still active in the short term. When the lady boss touched the snake's head, the snake unconsciously bit it and released venom based on spontaneous neural reflexes. So this is a kind of neural reflex phenomenon of snakes "without thinking".
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Snakes, as cold-blooded animals, most do not raise their offspring. Snakes are born in separate births and eggs, the Amazon's forest hopper belongs to the fetus, the small snake has the ability to prey after birth, directly parting ways with the mother, while most other snakes are mainly oviparous.
Since snakes are cold-blooded (warmer) animals, their body temperature is consistent with the environment and cannot bring the eggs warmer than the ambient temperature, so they incubate the eggs is a superfluous move, and they generally choose to lay eggs in the hot season, so that the eggs get more heat from the environment.
Can you recall whether you have seen a warm picture of a large snake carrying a group of small snakes in reality or in "Animal World"? It is estimated that no one will answer "yes". Because only during the "tail" period will snakes appear in pairs, and there will be disasters such as earthquakes that will cause snakes to move.
During the breeding season, the snake will find a mate to cross the tail and then go its separate ways. Females will find a shelter or cave to lay their eggs and then go out to hunt. Before the juvenile snake breaks its shell, the female snake occasionally comes back to see, and it is gone before the shell is broken. Most small snakes do not know who their mother is after breaking their shells, and live independently from an early age. The female snake also does not know who her child is, so there is no such thing as revenge. There is also the fact that the female snake is gone, and it is impossible to know that her child has been captured.
June-August is the hottest time in Guangdong and the best season for snake eggs to hatch on their own. However, the rain is abundant from July to August, and in recent years, extreme weather has been more frequent, and torrential rains have come and gone, and typhoons have repeatedly landed. Therefore, the snake cave is easily flooded by rainwater, the snake can only look for high places, hidden places to reproduce, and the cluttered, dark warehouse is a good choice, so this happened.