In this vast and boundless world, there are many creatures, there are more than 2,000 snakes in the world, including more than 170 kinds of snakes on the mainland, and the poisonous snakes that are more harmful are King Cobra, Golden Ring Snake, Silver Ring Snake, Five-step Snake, etc., and it is rumored that as long as the five-step snake bites in less than five steps, it turns back to poison and dies.
The five-step snake, also known as the sharp-nosed viper, the hundred-step snake, is a well-known venomous snake in Asia, the five-step snake is usually 1.2 meters to 1.5 meters long, the head is shaped like a triangle, the back is black-brown with black and white square patches intertwined. Loved living in a cool area near the valley stream.
Five-step snake specimen
The origin of the name five-step snake is already impossible to verify, but it means that as long as it is bitten within five steps or 100 steps, it will be poisonous and die, which shows the surprising toxin power of the five-step snake, and the investigation shows that the wounding of the Chinese mainland five-step snake is relatively common for the injured to have wound pain and bleeding, swelling, blistering, ulceration.
At the same time, the color of the five-step snake has a strong concealment in the mountains and forests, which is not easy to find, but it is extremely aggressive The head can also rotate significantly, if you are unfortunate enough to encounter, try not to grab it with your hands.
Five-step snake
The names of five-step snakes in various parts of the folk are also very different, the common ones are five-step inverted, rock-headed spot, white flower snake (Hunan, Jiangxi, Zhejiang), Qi snake (Jiangxi, Anhui, Hunan, Zhejiang), five-step dragon (Anhui, Jiangxi), hundred-step snake (Guangxi, Hunan, Jiangxi, Taiwan), five-stick snake, rock jiao (Chongqing), turning over flower (Hunan, Jiangxi), checkerboard snake, checkerboard grid, coiled snake, cassock snake (northern Fujian), upturned nose snake (Hunan, Jiangxi, Zhejiang), plowshare maker (Guizhou Xingyi), silk snake (Zhejiang), deaf snake (Guangxi) , blind snake (Jiangxi), lazy snake (Jiangxi) and so on.
Whoever illegally hunts or kills precious or endangered wild animals under national key protection, or illegally purchases, transports, or sells precious or endangered wild animals under national key protection and their products, shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not more than five years or criminal detention, and a fine; where the circumstances are serious, they shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not less than five years but not more than ten years, and shall also be fined; where the circumstances are particularly serious, they shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not less than 10 years, and shall also be fined or have their property confiscated.
In February this year, the Sen Police Brigade in Langxi County, Xuancheng City, Anhui Province, cracked an illegal hunting case, and the police found two sharp-nosed vipers, or what we call five-step snakes, in Cao's home, which were being soaked in a wine tank
Some places have the custom of soaking snakes in wine, drinking snake wine, and even think that the more poisonous the snake, the better the effect, but what they don't know is that catching protected animals is illegal, and live snakes directly into bottles is also a very dangerous behavior, snakes are ectothermic animals, it can maintain life in a lack of oxygen, water and water environment, that is to say, it can maintain life for months or even years through the "dormant state". Once the cap is opened, the snake quickly awakens and attacks the human.
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