As we all know, Chinese foodies are well-known in the world, as long as there are animals where there is a flood, other countries will first think of asking for help from China. And the first thing Chinese netizens think about is whether they can eat? How to eat it to be delicious? Even frying and steaming can be fantasized without repetition.
This is not the recent flood of African red pigs, African netizens began to ask Chinese netizens for help on the Internet, hoping that China will introduce African red pigs to solve this disaster for them. This request for help immediately fried the pot, African friends eat meat can not ah, pigs can actually flood, this is not the onion ginger garlic plus a handful of pepper thing? But the truth is far less simple than Chinese netizens think.
The African Red Pig is infested
The African Red Pig, also known as the "Red River Pig", or "African Wild Boar", is the smallest type of pig in Africa. This pig has a characteristic, that is, it looks particularly good, the fur of the whole body is orange or reddish brown, standing in the pig herd like the "noble of the pigs", it is reasonable to say that in Africa, where the strange insects and beasts gather, the African red pig is so conspicuous, it will definitely be hunted by many parties, the number should plummet, but why is it flooded? What causes this?
In fact, the main reason is the loss of the constraints of natural enemies. The natural enemy of the African Red Pig is the leopard, but due to the large number of hunting of the leopard's beautiful fur and the migration of habitat, the African Red Pig has lost its restraint and began to breed and expand. The breeding ability of African red pigs is particularly strong, and can give birth to two litters of piglets every year, each litter of piglets will have 3 to 6 piglets, which is about 10 a year, and in the second year, the piglets will mature and can also continue to breed and produce cubs.
Once this vicious circle begins, it will trigger a series of chain reactions, just like the Chinese carp flooding the United States, the hare wandering around in Australia, and the flooding will be very difficult to manage after the disaster.
The second is that Porco Rosso's ability to adapt to the environment is particularly strong. When it was small, in order to avoid the pursuit of predators, it would often lie on the ground and pretend to be dead, and the hunter would lose his appetite when he saw it, so that he could be saved. When it grows up and escapes faster, it will disdain the use of low-level death skills, it will quickly escape, or jump into the river when it sees it, because its swimming ability is also very strong.
And the African red pig is not picky eaters, it is an omnivorous animal, basically what to eat, such as branches, cassava, tender grass, roots, soil are on its recipe, even insects, lizards, carrion it can eat one by one. The lack of natural enemies and the abundance of food have also allowed the African Red Pig to develop rapidly.
Finally, the African Porco Rosso is very fierce. As the saying goes, "one pig, two bears and three tigers", the position of the pig is in front of the tiger, and it can be seen that the strength of the pig should not be underestimated. They often live in groups of 6 to 10, and when they encounter an invasion, the African Red Pig will not hesitate to rush to the enemy and fight the enemy together.
It will also take the initiative to attack humans, and its fiery temper will not stop until it arches the human beings. Although the African red pig is small, the adult boar can also reach 115 kilograms, and more than 100 kilograms of objects rushing towards you can also cause a lot of damage. Porco African Porco has two small protruding fangs on either side of its nose, which protect the face from injury when hitting the enemy, and on the other hand, the fangs can be inserted into the enemy's body and cause substantial damage to the enemy.
Most of the time, African red pigs forage at night, and they often stumble on farmland to find their favorite food, destroying crops and causing a lot of harm to the locals. With the proliferation of African red pigs, the contradiction between man and pig has escalated. But africans have never done anything substantial precautions, because they don't eat pork?
Why don't Africans eat Porco Rosso?
In Africa, half of the population is Muslim, and the followers of Islam cannot eat pork because their Allah God, who mentions in the Quran, forbids the eating of blood, pork, etc. So the African Porco ross can eat everything while Africans are free from living mouth.
As for the remaining half of the Africans who eat pork, they think that the African red pig is particularly dirty, because they eat carrion, insects, people are worried that the red pig carries the virus, so they generally only eat domestic pigs. The price of pork in the market is even cheaper than cabbage, and Chinese favorite pig's trotters will be cut off and thrown away as scraps. Many rich Africans never eat pork, which only the people at the bottom will eat.
Of course, more of the reason may be that the African Porco Rosso cannot be caught, its movements are agile, and it is generally difficult to catch. In order to control the flood of red pigs, the local government used 700,000 yuan as a prize money to hold a pig hunting competition, but the effect was minimal, and the prize money was never taken away. In recent years, many people who like to hunt will hunt Porco Rosso, although there are small results, the number of porcolets hunted is only a dime of the number of porcolets.
African red pigs still threaten locally grown crops, and the density of a population was originally controlled at 1 to 6 heads per square kilometer, but now the density of flooded red pigs has reached 18.4 heads per square kilometer. In this regard, Friends in Africa thought of asking for help from China, hoping that China could help Africa and introduce African Red Pig.
African Porco introduced to China?
As a major pork producer and pork consumer, China led the way in 2017 with a production of 53.4 million tons, which is 30 million tons more than the second place European Union. In recent years, mainland pork has been in a state of shortage. Some scientists predict that the pork gap in 2020 will be 100,000 tons, and the pig gap in 2021 will be 88 million heads.
African red pig is a typical lean pig, the meat quality will be more flexible, for the introduction of China is also a good thing, and the professor of Henan Animal Husbandry And Economics College, the development of the meat tender pig is based on the African red pig as the father for breeding and breeding. For China, this can not only solve the gap in China's pigs, but also enrich the table.
However, the introduction of any species carries risks, and we cannot predict that this organism will not develop into a different form in the next few decades. Just like the Fushou snail we used to eat often is a typical example, fushou snail was widely loved because of its delicious taste when it was introduced, but now it has become a street rat that everyone shouts and beats.
Moreover, we cannot predict whether the introduced African red pigs carry African swine fever. As a natural reservoir host, the red pig will not have clinical symptoms after infection with the virus, and once infected with local pigs, it will cause immeasurable losses. Moreover, the introduction of African Porco Rosso may carry parasites or viruses, and blind introduction may bring many new problems.
In fact, the wild boar flooding countries are not only In Africa, like the Flood of Radiation Wild Boar in Japan, the number of which has reached 30,000, which is the real wild boar that no one dares to eat, but it also gives rise to a new pig hunting profession. American wild boars even sent helicopters to hunt and kill. Africa could follow the example of other countries' methods of eradication, or it could domesticate the African red pig in captivity, which may be more beneficial to Africa.