On December 7, 2014, in the vast Amazon rainforest, a huge forest borer was opening its bloody mouth and trying to swallow a heavily armed man from the head.
But the man did not resist, but was willingly entangled and devoured by the snake.
It turned out that the man's name was Rossori, and he risked his life and was personally swallowed by a snake to conduct experiments.
What is he doing this for? And what kind of experiments require snakes to swallow people? It all starts with these gigantic snakes.
"Black and white, touch the grass and trees to death", Liu Zongyuan of the Tang Dynasty described the snake in "The Snake Catcher".
They are a terrible animal with a strong virulence, and we often stay away from snakes in life.
However, in the ancient civilization of the mainland, there is a full worship of snakes, and it is said that our ancestors Nuwa and Fuxi were all human-headed snakes, half-human and half-snakes.
There is a record of "Gonggong Clan Snake Body ZhuFa" in the Classic of Mountains and Seas, so snake culture is an important part of Chinese culture.
Today, with the development of cities, the habitat of snakes is shrinking and the number is also decreasing sharply, and many snakes have become protected animals.
Snakes that used to be everywhere along the rivers and ditches in the mountains and forests of the mainland are now very rare.
On July 27 last year, a farmer in Yuxi, Yunnan Province, reported that his ducks in captivity had been eaten by a sudden giant snake.
After the fire brigade went to the scene to investigate, it found a 3.6-meter-long, 39-pound Burmese python.
Pythons are not poisonous, mainly by strangulation to catch prey, their large and powerful torso is always frightening.
This 3.6-meter-long python is so huge in our eyes, but if it is compared with the borer in the Amazon tropical forest, it is a small witch.
Huge bushhopper
Abroad, there is a series of horror films called "The Scourge of The Python".
Unlike the frightening ghosts and demons in other horror movies, this movie successfully evokes the fear of "snakes" in people's hearts.
The prototype of the terrifying giant snake in "The Scourge of Pythons" is a forest hopper from the Amazon rainforest.
The vast Amazon rainforest is the largest rainforest in the world, and as the "lungs of the earth", it not only has the largest area of all the rainforests, but also the largest number of species.
Black caimans, piranhas, poison dart frogs... A variety of poisonous insects and beasts have made the Amazon rainforest a "forbidden area for human beings", and ordinary people dare not easily set foot here.
Among them, a variety of snakes are always frightening, and the green forest grasshopper is also one of them.
However, although it is the prototype of the giant snake that swallows people in the movie, there is no record of the green forest grasshopper swallowing people so far, and the one who clearly has a record of swallowing people is a reticulated python from Southeast Asia.
As one of the largest surviving snakes, the reticulated python can grow up to more than 12 meters and is the longest snake, while the green forest borer is the heaviest snake.
Villagers in a village in Indonesia once found a huge, bloated python so bloated that it seemed as if it had swallowed a person.
So everyone worked together to kill it, and finally found a human body in its stomach.
In this way, the rumor of "snake swallowing people" spread like this, so the huge python green forest grasshopper, which is equally famous as the reticulated python, was also rumored to eat people.
Some local people will rely on the head of the green forest grasshopper and let it carry this black pot when it is missing, but there are no reports of the green forest grasshopper swallowing people.
In fact, although there is no record that the green forest grasshopper will take the initiative to swallow people, there are indeed "no life" cruel people who are begging to be swallowed by the green forest grasshopper.
Armed at all points
I have heard of "sheep into the mouth of the tiger", but has anyone heard of "man into the mouth of the snake"? Rossori from the United States is one of them.
As a scientist, Rossori went to the rainforest once when he was young.
Since then, he has fallen in love with this magical and magnificent forest and is committed to protecting the rainforest, calling himself an "environmental protector".
Therefore, in order to attract people's attention to the South American rainforest, let everyone work together to protect the local endemic wildlife of the rainforest;
Rossori did not follow the usual path, and made a cruel move, that is, he was swallowed by the green forest grasshopper from the rainforest on tv.
However, this is not an easy task, after all, to be swallowed by a snake, the major event of human life is at stake, and it cannot be played.
Therefore, under the premise of satisfying the audience's curiosity, how to ensure his own safety has become the first thing Rossori needs to consider.
So he spent a lot of money to create a special protective suit and armed himself.
This set of protective clothing is not simple, first of all, its material is a high-performance chemical protective clothing, which can prevent the corrosion of the snake's stomach acid.
At the same time, the exterior is also covered with a layer of chain armor protective clothing to prevent impact and bite, which can be described as a two-pronged approach.
At the same time, Rossori is also equipped with a body temperature-controlled vest and a carbon fiber helmet, as well as an oxygen mask to avoid hypoxia caused by being swallowed.
In this way, Rossori fully armed himself and prepared himself for the experiment.
With his team in tow, Rossori walked into the mysterious Amazon rainforest, and his team was equipped with various props such as cameras, ventilators and communication equipment.
Although Rossori has armed himself with various high-tech props, he looks like a soldier in Star Wars.
But the staff next to him is still afraid of an accident, as long as Rossori feels that the situation is not good, he can immediately contact the staff with equipment to rescue him.
Man into the mouth of the snake
In this way, after being fully prepared, Rossori began a long journey to find the snake.
While televising live and searching in the forest, Rossori looked around in the forest, wanting to see the figure of the green forest grasshopper.
After more than an hour of searching, Rossori saw a green forest grasshopper resting in the shade under a large tree.
Seeing that the "experimental object" that I had been looking for for so long was in front of me at this moment, and the complete preparation before existed for this moment.
So Rossori immediately walked over, ready to start the experiment.
The green forest grasshopper is 6 meters long, but it seems lazy to pay attention when it sees humans coming towards him, and even wants to escape.
In order to make the experiment go smoothly, Rossori began various provocations against the green forest grasshopper, and even coated his protective clothing with pig blood to stimulate the green forest grasshopper's desire to hunt.
In this way, the green forest grasshopper was provoked by Rosori's success, and snaked towards him.
Green Forest Grasshopper wrapped his body around Rosori's waist fiercely, and then opened his blood basin mouth and swallowed it towards Rosori's head.
You know, although the green forest grasshopper does not have the deadly venom of a venomous snake like the king cobra, it has also evolved its own hunting method in natural evolution - strangulation.
It has no poisonous fangs, but four rows of sharp teeth, and a very advantageous trunk, which uses entanglement to suffocate its prey.
Apparently, Rossori underestimated what a terrible snake the green borer was.
Experiment or show
As the heaviest snake in the world, the Green Forest Hopper naturally has the greatest winding force.
Although the protective clothing worn by Rossori was very stressful, more than three times the strength recorded by the Green Forest Grasshopper, he still could not withstand such a large squeeze.
Moreover, the green forest grasshopper will only eat dead prey, not live prey.
Pretending to be dead may fool the bear, but it can't fool the snake, they can feel the heartbeat and breathing of the prey, which means that only when Rossori's heart stops beating, the green forest grasshopper will swallow it.
Under the vigorous squeeze of the green forest grasshopper, Rossori felt difficult to breathe, dizzy, and even the heart rate suddenly soared above 180!
Rossori, who lived the rest of his life, once said that his feelings at that time were:
"I felt like the blood in my head was being squeezed dry and my bones were about to break, and I felt the need to stop at the moment."
In this way, when the green forest grasshopper had just swallowed Rossori's head, he hurried to the rescue and stopped the experiment.
The experiment was forced to end at the beginning, many viewers did not buy it, and everyone began to argue whether this was an experiment calling for environmental protection or whether Rossori was simply putting on a show.
The experiment was just swallowed and the experiment was concluded, which is certainly not the result that the audience wants to see.
What they wanted to see was whether Rossori would survive after being swallowed all the Green ForestHoppers into his stomach.
Many viewers joked: "Looking for snakes for an hour and a half, but the result is to tease you, he just wants to hang a little color on his arm." ”
Some netizens even took photos of their pet dogs gently biting their fingers and uploaded them to social platforms to satirize Rossori, saying that they can also be on TV, right?
In addition, people from animal protection organizations say that Rossori is not a so-called call for the protection of animals at all, but abuses the innocent forest grasshopper.
For a time, everyone was discussing more than once, and Rossori also became the object of many people's condemnation and became a thousand fingers.
After all, it is broadcast live on TV, so many viewers are waiting to see the wonderful and exciting "snake swallowing people", but what they are waiting for is to be swallowed by the green forest grasshopper.
But Rossori still said: "I felt the large mouth of the bushhopper already biting on my helmet, and I could hear the sound of panting." He said he would be in danger of his life if he didn't stop.
The farce is over
Netizens on the Internet to Rossori all kinds of ridicule, all kinds of sarcasm, because they are completely unaware of the dangers involved.
Without this special protective device, ordinary people would be easily killed by the Green Forest Hopper in less than ten seconds.
And even if Rossori is fully armed, the pressure of the Green Forest Crab when strangling the prey cannot be underestimated, if Rossori does not stop the experiment in time, it is really possible to risk his life.
After all, Rossori's life is more important than the audience's curious eyes.
It's like when someone who can't think straight wants to jump off a building, and the ruthless spectators around him don't worry about his life, but urge him to jump quickly.
People only care whether their curiosity is satisfied, and they do not care whether Rossori who is doing experiments is dead or alive.
But I have to say that foreigners are really bold in many things.
In addition to various "death" experiments, all kinds of extreme sports that challenge human limits are also indispensable to the figure of foreigners, which makes people stunned.
Rossori's affair was over, though not so complete.
But it has to be said that if it is really according to Rossori's own purpose, he is to attract people's attention and attach importance to the protection of the rainforest, it is indeed a good starting point.
In recent centuries, with the development of globalization, human beings have quickly extended their "claws" to the primitive tropical rainforest.
As the largest tropical rainforest in the world, the Amazon Rainforest is located in Brazil for a large part of its territory.
So, in 1970, in order to improve the poor and weak lives of the people, the Brazilian president made a terrible decision: to develop the Amazon region.
Soon, with the continuous development of people, the area of the Amazon tropical forest is decreasing sharply every year. Until 1975, Brazil's forest area had been reduced by a full half.
As the Amazon rainforest was destroyed, a series of problems arose.
Like wetlands, rainforests not only conserve water, but also regulate the climate and maintain biodiversity.
Originally, the Amazon rainforest, as the "lungs of the earth", produced a large amount of oxygen to the earth while having a strong carbon dioxide absorption capacity.
Oxygen is what every living thing on Earth depends on, and according to statistics, the Amazon forest produces one-third of the oxygen on Earth.
At the same time, the Amazon rainforest's water conservation cannot be ignored, and its total amount even reaches 23% of the world's total surface freshwater.
Therefore, the destruction of rainforests not only destroys biodiversity and displaces many animals, but also causes great losses to humans.
The reduction of plant photosynthesis has also led to an increase in the concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, accelerating the process of global warming.
Therefore, these rainforests do not only belong to the countries in which they are located, but are a valuable asset for human beings all over the world.
According to research, 90% of human diseases can be treated by species in the Amazon rainforest.
"A butterfly in the Amazon rainforest, flapping its wings, can create a hurricane in Texas, USA."
As the classic "butterfly effect" we are all familiar with, a small error can trigger the overall direction of things, not to mention such a huge rainforest.
In fact, the mainland also attaches great importance to the country's tropical rainforests.
In 2016, the Mainland Forestry Bureau compiled the National Tropical Rainforest Protection Plan, with the goal of building a land ecological spatial planning and planning system.
Snakes, once ubiquitous, have become scarce now, even as Rossori's experiments fail.
But his original intention to make people pay attention to rainforest protection is good, and we should also pay attention to protecting the environment and protecting the nature that nurtures us.
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Edit | Ah Yan
Resources
Friends of Nature: Environmental Warnings of the 20th Century