A man in Foshan, while chatting with the residents of the village on the cement floor, found a cobra. When encountering the snake, the villagers did not choose to avoid it from a distance, but beat it to death. After a while the snake did not move, and the man went forward to check, but he did not know that the cobra suddenly burst out and bit the man's right foot.
Not long after being bitten, the foot swollen and the symptoms of breathing difficulties appeared, and the situation was very critical. Fortunately, with the help of the police and the police car, the man was sent to the hospital where the cobra serum was stored in time, and after treatment, the man was released from the danger of life and discharged from the hospital to recuperate at home.
Although the man was out of danger of life, the question did not diminish: Would the cobra really pretend to be dead? Will they retaliate against those who injured and killed them?
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="4" > snake's revenge</h1>
In fact, this is not the first case of a snake bite suspected of being dead, and there have even been records of dead snake injuries.
In 2014, a chef in Foshan beheaded a cobra while cooking snake soup, and the snake's body was cooked into a snake soup, and the snake's head was discarded to the side and discarded.
Unexpectedly, about 20 minutes later, the discarded snake's head suddenly burst out and bit the cook.
In 2017, the lady owner of a hotel in Guangdong was also bitten by a snake head with a severed head while cooking snake dishes. According to reports, when the snake soup is usually cooked, the snake's head will be cut off, and this time when the boss lady is cleaning up the kitchen waste including the snake's head, the snake head suddenly bursts out, biting the boss lady's finger and bleeding.
After being bitten, the lady boss has appeared numbness, dizziness and nausea and other symptoms, and when she arrived at the hospital, she already had symptoms such as slurred speech and difficulty breathing, fortunately, after timely treatment, she was out of danger of life.
In other words, the Foshan men may have really killed the snake, but the dead snake is still very dangerous, and they may also hurt people. So what's going on here?
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="11" Why does > a dead snake hurt people? </h1>
Many people will interpret the dead snake injury as "death does not blind", or that the snake has a strong sense of revenge, even if it dies, it will bite the other party. This is not the case.
Under normal circumstances, after the animal's head is removed, the animal's life will end with it, and the activity behavior will disappear. But snakes don't.
Curiosity Labs conducted an experiment in which the heads of short-tailed pit vipers, silver ring snakes, and cobras were cut off, and it was found that the short-tailed pit viper and silver ring snake were still active for the next 20 minutes, with the cobra being the most active, but after about 10 minutes it stopped moving.
They are still very dangerous for about 20 minutes after they have just died, and when they perceive danger around them, they will even jump up and hurt people and release venom.
Many people think that the snakes at this time are not dead, but in fact they are dead, and the reason why they are still active and even aggressive is mainly because of "conditioned reflexes".
It turns out that our mammalian nerves are mainly concentrated in the brain, and once the head is cut off, the whole body movement will stop. Snakes, however, are reptiles, and their higher nerve centers are not well developed, while the lower centers are more capable, and the nerves that command the conditioned reflexes are distributed throughout the body, so that even if the head is cut off, their heads and bodies will still writhe due to conditioned reflexes.
At this point, they still react to external stimuli, and if they rush close to them, they may still hurt people.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="19" > the correct way to encounter a snake</h1>
In fact, the best thing to do when encountering a cobra is not to kill it, but to avoid it. Moreover, there are several wild cobras that belong to protected animals, and they may be legally responsible for killing them.
Secondly, although cobras are very poisonous, cobras rarely take the initiative to attack people, and they can avoid them from a distance when they encounter cobras, and they do not have to provoke them.
If a cobra enters the courtyard, it can be helped by the fire brigade instead of disposing of it yourself.
If you accidentally step on a snake and get bitten by it, be sure to take pictures of the snake to help the doctor identify what the snake is and whether it is poisonous. After that, bandage the limb near the heart, the bandaging is neither too tight nor too loose, and the bandage is loosened every 5 minutes or so to avoid ischemia and necrosis of the limb.
After being bitten by a snake, it is necessary to first determine which hospital has a snake venom vaccine, and send it to the hospital in the shortest possible time, as long as it is treated in time, the general bite will not have a big problem.
Finally, I hope that this accident can teach everyone a lesson: don't hit the snake casually, and don't approach the dead snake at will.