It's amazing! The UK is flooded, with 200 million giant rats soaring in a month, each weighing more than 10 pounds, larger than a domestic cat, and eating rat poison can not be poisoned.
However, a friend of mine traveled to the UK some time ago and claimed that there is a large rat infestation here, very many
At first I thought it was a prank by a friend, but then I saw the news and didn't expect it to be true.
These giant rats wreaked havoc in some British towns and cities, almost digging mountains to the point of collapse.
Are these mice really that big? So what do they eat? Is it really that scary?
My friend travelled to Wales, England, where there is a place called the town of Tenby in the south.
It is said that the tourism industry is very developed there, people like to see the beach there, where the sun reflects the golden sand, the sea is incomparably blue, there are cliffs, and there are many many huts, connected in a row, picturesque scenery.
But what exactly is the giant rat that my friend said?
It turns out that there is a place called Castle Hill in this town, where there are many giant rats, mice are as big as rabbits, and the burrows are also very large.
It seems that the rats regard this castle hill as their beautiful home, and the feeling that the mountain caves are connected to each other, and they will collapse in a heavy rainstorm.
You might say, fortunately, only in this attraction! Then you are wrong, these rats are still in the town below the mountain, scurrying around and making their home.
And some time ago, a British poet Clive, who was sleeping in his small apartment, suddenly felt something hit his leg hard.
As soon as he opened his eyes, he was startled, it turned out to be a very large mouse, this mouse is half a meter long, it has a big tail like a cat's tail.
These giant rats are also very good at choosing places to make their home, and most of their homes are scenic places, such as in the parks of this town, there are also many rat holes.
These giant rats make people frightened every day, the bold even dare to come out, and the timid do not dare to go out of their own doors. It is said that a few years ago, an engineer caught a giant rat up to one meter and two meters long in the playground, which really shocked him.
Of course, some people say that mice have grown so big because the British love to feed seagulls sugar and high-protein things, because these are the favorite foods of mice.
Why do you say they are Chinese rats? Because the British did a genetic test, these mice live in mice in northern China.
This super mouse is resistant to over-the-counter drugs and has teeth that are so strong that they can bite through concrete.
The incident caused concern among local residents, some even fearful.
In addition, giant rats have long become invincible in the process of evolution over the years. It is said that more than 20% of rats in the UK carry various disease-causing genes.
Now that the giant rat is further infested, if Johnson's government turns a blind eye to it, there will be three major consequences.
Imagine how you would react if you ran into such a big mouse.
However, in 1967, at Guangzhou Baiyun Airport, an Englishman was ready to take two dirty mice out of customs.
Live animals by plane are to go through the check-in procedures, and the security check is also very strict, the mainland's customs staff immediately noticed that there was something different, normal people who take mice out?
Two rats were randomly detained at once, who would have thought that this would instead fall into the trap of the British.
After this Englishman's mouse was detained, he was not in a hurry at all, and his eyebrows revealed a smug look, what secret is hidden behind this?
The customs staff did not dare to take it lightly, and immediately sent Chen Tianbao, who was on duty, to send the two mice for testing.
On the road, the two mice were very restless in the net cage, jumping up and down, and spitting out food from time to time, and Chen Tianbao finally sent the two mice to the detection agency.
Unsurprisingly, these were two rats with severe plague. After receiving the news, customs officer Wang Lide immediately detained the British man at the police station.
The Englishman, Chris, came to China alone to work two years ago, changed ten jobs in different cities in two years, and finally settled in Guangdong, and married a local wife from Chaoshan in Guangdong, but his wife died of illness not long after.
After interrogation, it is learned that Chris is a spy sent by the British, and this time the last task is to spread the plague virus in the crowded airport.
Some people who saw it said that this mouse is very large, seven or eight times that it is ordinary mice, and can weigh up to 17 kilograms.
This seems to be a rumor, but this kind of rat is real, rats have caused panic to a certain extent, some people speculate that this is because the rats stole chemical agents and then mutated, and some experts came out to refute the rumors.
This is not a mutant mouse, but an invasive species called the beaver rat. Unlike the disgusting rats we usually say, the beaver rat belongs to the rodent beaver rat family, it is not a native Chinese animal, it is very easy to see it in Brazil, Argentina, Uruguay and other South American countries.
Unlike mice, the beaver rat has short forelimbs and flippers on the hind limbs, which allows it to live in the water, and its dexterous body churns wantonly in the water, looking for aquatic plants such as reeds and snapdragon algae to eat when tired of playing.
Sometimes it may eat some mussels or mollusks such as loaches and earthworms when it consumes too much energy because of play, so strictly speaking, it is an aquatic animal.
Although the beaver rat eats very plainly, it will still gain weight if it eats more, and there are so many resources in the water, so it develops horizontally without restrictions.
Of course, beaver rats often live together as a family, digging holes and setting up shelter together, because they feed on aquatic life, so they often choose the address near the river dam when building their houses.
Sometimes the beaver rat stays in the water enough and will go ashore to breathe a few breaths of fresh air, once it comes ashore, it is not dexterous in the water, it has no way to coordinate its limbs, it will only jump forward, so once it encounters natural enemies or humans, it is easy to die. But once you let it slip into the water, it's hard to catch it.
But you know what? It took a lot of effort to bring in the beaver rat from abroad.
As early as 1956, the mainland invited this kind of mouse from the big brother of the Soviet Union, and after about twenty or thirty years, the country has already large-scale breeding of beaver rats, why should we breed this black animal?
Second, rats steal food and gnaw at the roots of crops, causing food production to decrease, which was also abhorred in an era of food scarcity.
Finally, rat teeth have been growing, and they need to grind their teeth to delay the growth of their teeth, in addition to gnawing at furniture and appliances, they will also bite cable defenses and precision instruments, resulting in heavy losses in industry and communications.
These just confirm why rats crossing the street are the reason why everyone shouts and beats. There are many ways to eliminate rodents in the early stage, the most common is the biological rodent control method, which uses natural enemies to restrict the growth and reproduction of mice.
At that time, wild cats, domestic cats, foxes, snakes, owls and other animals were in battle, monitoring the movements of mice all the time, and when they saw it, they swooped over and destroyed them fiercely.
This method is quite effective, but the environment is relatively limited and it cannot be completely removed. Coupled with the strong fecundity of mice, they can make a comeback in a short period of time and sweep the rivers and lakes, which also makes people have to find another trick.
In addition, mice are also very adaptable and can survive even in the face of human hunting. Moreover, no matter how harsh the environment is, they can still prosper.
This human-mouse war lasted for thousands of years, and it still could not be eliminated, and in the end it could only coexist with it, helplessly watching it set off a storm.
However, the local farmers are somewhat helpless against them, as an alien creature, their natural enemies are very few in the mainland and difficult to contain.
Have you ever seen that giant mouse that weighs thirty pounds and can reach half a meter in length?
As one of the victims, the lotus root growers in Xingda Village reported that these rats ate the freshly produced lotus buds in the spring and the lotus roots in the autumn, and the farmers had poor harvests and suffered heavy economic losses.
Its main habitat is mostly swamps and rivers, and it likes to eat rhizomes, mainly feeding on the rhizomes of reeds, water lotuses, grasses and other plants.
The value of the beaver rat is very high, its blood can be used in medicine, used to treat gastrointestinal diseases, the tendons on the tail can also be used for medical purposes, through processing means to make absorbing protein sutures, such sutures can be used to suture the wound of the patient without the need to remove stitches.
Its fur is soft and wear-resistant, very thick, can be used to make fur coats, excellent warmth, and its meat quality is very tender, delicious, nutritious, anti-aging and health care are very good, because of its extremely low fat content is not easy to lead to obesity, many weight loss people love to eat.
In the eighties of the early century, the mainland implemented the policy of opening up to the outside world, and many new things were introduced to our country, and the beaver rat also relied on its large size, strong survivability, easy breeding, and good fur quality for making tanuki coats.
Successfully gaining the favor of merchants, some farmers managed to bring them from South America to China, hoping to make a fortune by raising beaver rats.
One of the typical examples is a man named Li Tianguo, who discovered the secret of getting rich behind the beaver rat, carefully set up a scam, through public opinion to hype the economic value of the beaver rat, many farmers found the business opportunity and began to breed beaver rats in large quantities
Subsequently, Li Tianguo raised the price of beaver rats in his hands through high-priced acquisitions, and in the wave of breeding booms, the price of beavers soared from the initial 300 yuan a piece to 30,000 yuan a piece, seriously deviating from the law of value.
Although some people realize that something is wrong, there are also many people who have been carried away by profit and are trapped in this money vortex. Fortunately, the central government exposed the scam in time, and everyone finally woke up, and the price of beavers fell rapidly with the exposure of the scam and the shattering of the dream of becoming rich.
In this regard, many netizens have heated discussions:
First, now our country has garden communities, and there are also similar to those said, except that Chinese rats are not so big. I worked in a factory a few years ago, I saw a rat at least 30 centimeters, not afraid of people at all, smashed the mouse with a brick, the mouse looked at me, ran slowly, and did not smash to death.
Second, there is a good effect of rodent control, that is, after catching an adult mouse, stuff a soybean into the anus of the mouse, and then use needle and thread to close the anus of the mouse, and then release! When the soybeans in the rat's body swell, the mice still can't be discharged, and the rats that rise are six gods and masterless, they will specifically bite the same kind of mice! Until the rats rise to death!
Third, in 86, at her aunt's house in Changsha, Hunan Province, her family had a few mountains, and the kitchen was on the left hand outside the hall, and rats of twenty or thirty centimeters ran around, and they saw that they had lost their feet on the beam and fell into the cauldron. The cousin grabbed it, dragged her tail and lit kerosene and set it on fire, and she circled the open space in front of the hall. It's miserable! Remember!
Fourth, anyway, Chinese species go to foreign countries, can grow crazy, the size is larger than the place of origin, such as American carp, can grow to dozens of pounds, has flooded, the reason may be climate problems, especially conducive to their growth, may also be pollution problems, mutated, do not look at the current foreign blue sky and white clouds, in fact, in the fifties and sixties, the United States and other Western countries rapid industrial development, pollution than our country, although improved, but toxic pollutants can not be removed, precipitated in underwater soil.
Fifth, the mice on the mainland have not been treated badly, eat well and live well, but they have not grown so big, don't dunk the basin on our heads, just like there were no mice in Europe before, Eurasia is a continent at all.
Sixth, when I was in elementary school, the father of the classmate caught a big rat in the reservoir, never seen such a big one, as big as a rabbit, locked up in a rabbit cage, what impressed me the most was that its teeth were red, its tail was thick and long, it looked very fierce, and the classmates did not dare to approach it.
This is why Britain brought depleted uranium bombs to Ukraine, because the storage of depleted uranium bombs is very difficult, not only costly, but also highly radioactive, so British rats become giant rats after being irradiated.