The information comes from the customs release.
Passengers brought snowcock feces into the country and were investigated
Recently, the Dulata Customs in Urumqi, Xinjiang, is working intensively. Because of the remote location, there are always many people who want to be greedy and cheap, and habitually think that the customs supervision here may be relatively loose, so they try to carry some prohibited items to enter the country, so the workload of the customs in these areas is actually greater and more severe.
The customs officers of Dulata will supervise the forbidden things almost every day, and they are not surprised, but a contraband found recently still makes the customs officers a little embarrassed and speechless. When they carried out the supervision of inbound passengers, they found that the CT machine image of a person's backpack was abnormal, and he seemed to have brought a bag of similar medicinal herbs into the country without declaring it.
According to laws and regulations, after opening the bag and inspecting it, they actually found a bag of semi-dry animal manure!
Half-dry! How smelly! Oh, my God! The bag weighs 640 grams, and according to the identification of the customs inspection agency, the feces came from the snowcock, a national second-class protected wild animal in the mainland. Some people think that the manure of the snowcock can be used as a "home remedy" for disease treatment and nourishment, so they collect its feces from abroad for rough processing.
Feces may contain a large number of bacteria, viruses and other pathogens, of course, they cannot enter the country casually, especially this kind of semi-dry, which has not been disinfected at all. Bird droppings are particularly dangerous, and they can carry cryptococcus, which causes lung infections in humans, as well as variants of various avian influenza viruses.
Snowcock
Since the snowcock is mentioned, it is definitely necessary to talk a little about this animal.
Snowcock is a species of the genus Snowcock of the Pheasant family Pheasantidae, this name is a general term, there are 5 species of snowcock known in the world, namely: Altai Snowcock, Caspian Snowcock, Caucasian Snowcock, Dark-bellied Snowcock and Light-bellied Snowcock, the main distribution in the mainland is the Dark-bellied Snowcock and Light-bellied Snowcock.
The snowcock roams leisurely on the top of the towering mountains of central and southern Asia, from the snow of the Caucasus to the mountains of Turkey and east to the Soviet-Mongolian border. In China, snowcocks are found in Xinjiang, Tibet, Qinghai, Gansu and western Sichuan, all in the high mountains. In winter, they move down to forest belts to avoid low temperatures; In the summer, they climb to an altitude of 8,000 meters.
They really look like quails, but they are much larger, often weighing more than 2 kilograms, and look chubby. Their feathers are earthy brown or reddish-brown with black-brown beetle markings; The throat is white, and the head is brownish-gray; The wings appear slightly rounded, with large white spots; abdomen and lower thorax whitish-gray with black longitudinal stripes; The overall color is similar to the bare rock environment in the alpine where they live, and it must be a protective color.
Both the female and the male have basically the same color scheme.
It is a social bird that usually moves in small groups of 10-20 individuals, sometimes in large groups of more than 30 individuals. As soon as the morning dawns, they start to forage for food, after all, the temperature in the alpine areas is low, and food is relatively scarce, so other animals will be preempted if they don't find food sooner. Their diet is mainly plants, and the roots, grass leaves, tubers, bulbs of various plants are good choices, and occasionally they will eat some insects.
They are very timid, and when they are foraging or resting, the old birds in the flock will stand on a high place for everyone to let out the wind, and when they see a possible threat, the old birds will let out a long, loud chirp, and then the snowcocks will run away quickly. They run particularly cutely, waddling, with their tail feathers standing up high; If the predator is fast, they will also take off with their wings flapped, but they are actually very good at flying and may just decide that running is more convenient.
In May~July, snowcocks breed in alpine areas with permanent snow, and they will build their nests on cliffs, even under hidden bushes, which naturally reduces the possibility of being found by predators. Their nests are rudimentary, made of a variety of dried plants and feathers, and the females lay 5-16 eggs in them, and then the females take on the task of hatching, going out once a day to forage for food, and the rest of the day to hatch the eggs.
After 29-31 days, the baby snowcocks will hatch.
At present, all five species of snowcock are included in the 2012 Red List of Threatened Species of the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), and two species of snowcock existing in mainland China are also included in China's national second-class protected animal list. The reason for their declining numbers is naturally due to human poaching.
their value
According to Baidu Encyclopedia and various information on the Internet, the meat of snow chicken has extremely high nutritional value and medicinal value. It is said that their meat can be used as medicine after drying, can treat women's diseases, epilepsy and other diseases, and also plays a role in nourishing and aphrodisiac, calming, detoxification, and the taste is particularly delicious, because of nutrition and deliciousness, they are quite valued by people. It is also from this that they are classified as second-class protected animals.
However, I can't help but wonder if I see the "nourishing aphrodisiac", which is a "nourishing aphrodisiac" in many misconceptions about wildlife nutrition, such as tigers and pangolins, but it turns out that they don't have these effects. I don't know anything about medicine, so I won't say much about it here, but in short, the snow is very popular.
However, whether the manure of the snowcock has various curative effects, this is really a folk remedies, and this is rarely mentioned in the formal snowcock breeding industry.
In order to protect the snowcock, but also to give full play to the economic value of the snowcock. The artificial breeding of snowcocks was carried out on the mainland, and it was quickly successful. The flight ability of artificially bred snowcocks has become very weak, and basically they do not like to fly if they are not high, and they are originally social animals, so farmed snowcocks can be raised on a large scale like ordinary chickens.
They are easy to feed, the feed is mainly phytophagous, the cost is very low, and the price of a single is very high, so it is a new breed that develops high-yield, high-quality and efficient poultry industry.