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Pig snake, also known as Chinese skink, four-legged snake, often haunts the rural fields, is the childhood memory of many people, in the childhood rural summer, the roadside can often see the pig snake motionless lying on the ridge, lifeless, but when the children want to go over and grab it, it will slip into the grass, disappear without a trace, sometimes it will be like a gecko, cut off its tail to escape.
Pig snake mostly feed on small insects in the wild, sometimes also prey on small frogs and tadpoles, only once a year to lay eggs, a time can lay about 15-20 eggs, people think that the pig snake is a close relative of snakes, is because its appearance and snake is very similar, but four more paws, so in the folk also generally believe that the claws of the pig snake than the ordinary snake status is higher, there are also villagers call this four-legged "snake" called "little dragon".
Pig snake is harmless to humans, it is not toxic, children used to use a small grass rope to tie them to play, is to be careful of being bitten by it, but also can be used as medicine to lead to human treatment and tonic body, and then they become adults, remove internal organs and air dry, is a good medicinal herb, can treat body weakness, dispel wind and cold, detoxification, diuresis and the like, before the countryside will use it to make wine, it is said to replenish kidney and aphrodisiac, and because of its delicious taste and high nutritional value, so it is captured in large quantities, used for medicine or served on the table At present, pig snakes have been listed in the "China Biodiversity Red List - Vertebrate Volume" - Low Risk (LC), from the past everywhere to the current "three haves" protected animals, now privately caught a wild even if it is illegal, but now there are also pig snakes in captivity, mostly for medicinal or pet use.
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