Hello everyone, it's time for "Tao Ge Blind Vernacular" again, and today I am nagging you about an extremely dangerous seabed bug.
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Beautiful things are not always intoxicating, and sometimes they hide frightening objects.
Take, for example, the Blue Reef Aquarium, which is mostly haunting, located in Cornwall, at the southwestern tip of the United Kingdom. Although Cornwall has a very low presence in the UK, it has caused a lot of movement thanks to the Blue Reef Aquarium.
Blue Reef Aquarium
The marine life here is diverse and is a favorite spot for locals
One day thirteen years ago, a staff member of the Blue Reef Aquarium came to the curator's office after work and reported that in recent weeks, there had been frequent reductions in the number of fish in a tank dedicated to displaying small fish from shallow waters.
Relying on intuition and experience, the curator thought that the fish should be killing each other in a state of starvation, so he went to the fish tank where the incident occurred to observe carefully, but he found that most of the fish tanks were groupers, bass and moon butterfly fish that were no more than 30 centimeters in size, and it was reasonable to say that it was impossible to swallow each other when food was plentiful.
The curator was puzzled, but the matter did not end with his disappearance, and in the following days, not only did the fish disappear inexplicably, but even the coral was seriously damaged, and one piece of coral was even split in half by external forces.
This apparent anomaly was finally taken seriously enough that the curator decided that the water tank would never be peaceful if the "murderer" was not removed - so they set traps and set up a large number of "fish block" baits, hoping to find the annoying guy, but the baits and traps disappeared mysteriously again.
Helpless, frustrated and frustrated, the curator decided to take a thorough look, he took out everything in the water tank, every piece of water grass and every grain of sand and gravel poured out, at this time, he was surprised to find the "culprit", a Bobbit worm more than 1 meter long.
The culprit, Bobbitt Worm
The aquarium people named the bug "Barry", and after determining that it was the murderer, people did not dare to put it back in the tank again, nor did they dare to throw it into the outdoor waters. Finally, the Bobbitt worm was cut into a dozen pieces and thrown into cornwall sewers.
Realistic version of "The Worm of Death in Mongolia"
A generation of genius, Genghis Khan. Legend has it that the Mongol Khan, who had conquered most of Eurasia with iron hooves and sabers, was buried near Ulaanbaatar.
Just as emperor Yingzheng built countless terracotta warriors to guard the underground imperial tombs, legend has it that Genghis Khan also chose a special force to ensure that his resting place was not invaded, the Mongol Worm of Death.
In rumors, this horrible murderer is like a ghost coming out of a science fiction movie, with a huge body, hiding in the deserted sand and gravel all day long, once someone or animal approaches, they will suddenly drill out, spewing out deadly venom or bioelectric current, even if the prey is several meters away.
In order to further dispel the world's coveting of Genghis Khan's mausoleum, the Mongols did not hesitate to describe the horrors of these royal guards in the most exaggerated terms - about five or six feet, the whole body was dark red and speckled, there were countless legs, the head and tail were like ears of wheat, the organs were very blurred, it was difficult to distinguish between eyes, nose and mouth, and the most loved creature was the camel, and its venom was powerful and corrosive enough to melt the hardest metal in the world.
But in any case, this strange creature is still the wishful thinking of most people who are considered to be of Mongol descent, after all, no one has really seen a living thing. But a small number of people, especially some entomologists, insist that the Mongolian Dead Worm is real, and the strongest evidence is the Bobbitt Worm, which in any way belongs to the Mongolian Desert Death Worm.
The size of bobbitt worm is biologically limited to 3 to 3.5 meters, but the current observable live body is generally between 1 and 2 meters, in other words, the one that disturbs the people in the Blue Reef Aquarium in the United Kingdom is not as good as the passing line of the species - not a particularly strong, particularly destructive one.
Bobbitt worm looks like a fierce water snake, but in fact it belongs to the animal phylum, and the common earthworm and ant in our lives are the same door. This explains why aquarium people are so slow to discover it — for most of the time, bobbitts are buried like earthworms on the seabed of rubble, mud or coral, and only come out to commit crimes at night after people are asleep.
The feeding strategy of Bobbitt worms is quite ferocious and extremely uncomfortable.
Since it does not have a large body and a prominent long-distance running ability, its only chance is to become an excellent chance hunter, and the success rate of the sneak attack determines whether it is hungry tonight.
With muscular mouthparts, combined with sharp jaws, as long as the small fish and shrimp passing by let their guard down, it is easy to be attacked by Bobbitt worms. It is worth noting that Bobbitt worms have not evolved eyes, and there is no way to locate the exact position of the prey through stereo vision, but their tentacles can accurately sense the fluctuations of the water flow to feel the direction of the prey.
The poor creature that was targeted by the Bobbitt worm, even if it was not bitten in half on the spot, would be dragged into the dark cave, and as for what would happen after dragging it down, the indescribable nightmare light would shudder in the brain.
So, you may ask, Brother Tao, is it possible that the fish can escape the burrow of the Bobbitt worm if they are strong enough? Won't it be okay to be dragged in and then climb out?
Not really. According to Mexican zoologists, this "marine version of the Mongolian Death Worm" injects anesthetic toxins into the prey, and when the prey tries to struggle, the toxin can quickly incapacitate it to ensure that the Bobbitt worm can eat calmly.
Bobbitt worms have no natural enemies in the narrow sense, and the only thing that can cause them trouble is some fish that are accustomed to "trick-or-treating". For example, the Bream and some social sea bass, which use water currents to blow sand near bobbitts from a safe distance, exposing their hiding places, is a disaster for bobbitts that can only ambush, and they are likely to starve to death because they cannot successfully hunt for a long time.
The origin of the name Bobbitt worm is also quite dramatic.
As early as 1993, a 22-year-old woman in the United States, because of her husband's long-term alcoholism and domestic violence, broke into the bedroom on a Sunday night carrying an 8-inch knife, chopped off the genitals of her husband who was unconscious because of drunkenness, and ignored her husband's wailing, drove out of the door and discarded it like garbage in the field 3 kilometers away.
After returning home, the tough lady still denounced her husband's various "crimes", and then, out of anger, she chose to turn herself in and confessed to the police the place where she abandoned her husband's life. After more than an hour of searching, the police finally found the damn thing and took her hapless husband to the hospital.
The surprising thing is that the doctor has been busy for more than 2 hours, and this genital has been successfully picked up!
At a court hearing a year later, prosecutors and the jury agreed that the woman was not guilty because she was mentally in a "non-healthy" state at the time of the injury, and the final verdict was to send her to a state psychiatric hospital for 2-week observation.
This sentence is obviously tendentious, but the unfortunate husband did not pursue too much, he felt that his life was already good, annoyed the other party, in case he did it again and again, he would not be worth the loss, and he was blessed by misfortune, after the operation, not only some functions recovered as before, but even more excellent than before the injury, he took this step into the adult world and became a star.
The discoverer of the Bobbitt worm is an underwater photographer, according to him, when he saw the scene of the bug ferociously cutting the prey in two, he inexplicably thought of the heroine of this sensational domestic violence case in the United States, so he used the name of the lady on the bug - the name of the lady, called Lorena Bobbitt.
Well, I am a Tao brother who loves fishing and can talk, if you like it, pay attention to me.