In Yunnan, there is a man named Bai Tuo, in 2004, Bai Tuo was only 15 years old, a cobra lived in his home, found that he is not only not afraid of snakes but also very fond of. In this way, he began to live a "cohabitation" life with the snake. He was also known as the "Python Boy".
Because of his rich experience in snake breeding, he was also hired as a keeper by the safari park, and every time the forest police seized wild animals such as snakes, they would be sent to the zoo, but because the zoo's reptile hall facilities were not perfect, these snakes were taken home by him to take care of, and when conditions permitted, he would send these snakes to the zoo for breeding. At present, he has lived with snakes for 17 years, and his family and friends have slowly accepted the life of a snake in the past 17 years.
Every day when he returned home, he checked the status of each snake, treated sick snakes, played with a few more "well-behaved" pythons, and sometimes slept on the couch with pythons on their pillows.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="6" > snake as a cold-blooded animal, why wouldn't it bite him? </h1>
We all know that cold-blooded animals actually refer to warm animals. Is in addition to mammals and birds of animals. It means that there is no mechanism for self-regulation of body temperature in the body, and it can only rely on its own behavior to regulate the dissipation of body heat or absorb heat from the external environment to increase its body temperature.
The way cold-blooded organisms are metabolized determines that they cannot evolve brains with higher energy consumption, and also determines that the brain volume is generally smaller than that of mammals, that is, low IQ, ignorance, and poor memory. It has nothing to do with cold-blooded ruthlessness. Even in order to save brain capacity, its senses are highly specialized for hunting.
In the same way, the snake as a brain structure is relatively simple, the nervous system is not as complex as the human reptile, the IQ is not high, will not produce psychological activities and emotional identification with people, in the process of raising pet snakes, snakes will first from the new environment nervous anxiety of the kind of people too close to the attack state to adapt to the new environment and smell is no longer easy to produce tension and anxiety state.
Many people say that snakes are very close to themselves and will not attack themselves, in fact, snakes bite me Snake adapts to the environment, long-term relationships make the snake accustomed to the smell of this person, know that it will not pose a threat to it, will not treat you as prey.
In addition, if you get along with the snake for a long time, although the snake will not establish feelings with people like cats and dogs, it will form a conditioned reflex, what is a conditioned reflex, which refers to the temporary neural connection established between external stimuli and the response of the organism under certain conditions.
Wild snakes are afraid of people, mainly afraid of people hurting it, snake bites people is actually a defensive behavior. If people always touch it and do not hurt it, its defense will not be so strong, slowly the sense of fear will disappear, and it will not actively attack people. And not only to the owner who raised it, but also to other people will not take the initiative to attack, so Bai Tuo was able to get along with the snake for so long. This is why many people say that snakes can coexist with people.
Although it is possible to live with a snake, it is impossible to want the snake to have an emotional connection with you. If you put your hand next to a snake that smells of rats or other prey, the snake will still bite you without hesitation.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="35" > why Baituo has been eating for so many years</h1>
Bai Tuo has also been bitten by a snake, Bai Tuo once adopted a Burmese python that was burned by a thermos lamp, and Bai Tuo has been carefully caring for it, cleaning wounds, applying medicine, changing medicine, and often touching it. However, because of its incompatibility with the environment and smell, the Burmese python became nervous and anxious, and directly bit into Bai Tuo's forehead.
In fact, we can find that many people have been bitten in the process of raising pet snakes, such as 21-year-old girls who buy silver ring snakes online when their pets are bitten and unfortunately die; 3-year-old boys are bitten twice in two months when they secretly keep snakes.
The reason why Bai Tuo has nothing to do is because most of the people he raises are pythons, pythons are non-venomous snakes, the attack method of pythons is strangulation, pythons will also save energy by sensing the gradual weakening of the heartbeat of the prey and constantly reducing the force of entanglement with the prey, only if the heart stops beating, the python will stop attacking, thus preventing the prey from escaping.
The use of entanglement to kill prey creates a unique evolutionary advantage for pythons, which allows them to attack prey that is much larger than themselves. So although pythons usually feed on rodents and birds, pythons also hunt larger animals, such as monkeys and wild boars.
Finally, if you want to raise snakes, you must choose non-venomous snakes, but also pay attention to judging whether the snake is a national protected animal, but also pay attention to the purchase channels, can not smuggle through the customs, it is best to buy in the country, it is best to have relevant certificates. Such as milk snakes, king snakes, corn snakes, pig-nosed snakes and so on.