With the advent of winter, snakes will gradually enter a state of hibernation, but recently there have been some abnormal phenomena, some snakes not only do not hibernate, but break into the environment of human life, bringing no small trouble to human beings.
A resident of Changde, Hunan Province, actually came to the home of a snake, after the resident called the police, the firefighters came to the scene to quickly catch it, and then took it to the wild for release. In Xuzhou, Jiangsu Province, residents found several snakes in the corner of their own walls, hiding in the self-built insulation wall, after the fire officers and soldiers locked the location of the snake, the insulation wall was demolished, and the snakes were clipped out one by one with the snake trap.
Many netizens said: Go and prepare for hibernation. Usually when the outdoor temperature drops below about 13 ° C, the snake must find various caves underground to hibernate. Now that the temperature in most parts of our country has fallen below double digits, why do snakes behave so abnormally and haunt human homes?
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Usually, in late autumn, as the temperature drops (below 13 degrees Celsius), the snake will hibernate in a suitable place, such as in a hollow tree trunk, cave or rock crevice. If the outdoor temperature is below 0 degrees Celsius, it is a fatal low temperature for snakes.
Recently, china's temperature has plummeted, and there has been a large-scale cooling in the country, why do snakes have a series of abnormal behaviors that haunt human homes? The main reasons are outdoor temperature and food.
The outdoor temperature plummeted, which is a cliff-like cooling in China in October, and many places in the country have a feeling of entering winter in seconds, and even some places began to snow overnight. In the face of sudden cooling, most organisms in nature are very unsuitable, such as vegetables, large-scale yield reductions, animal clock disorders, and there is no time to find a suitable place to overwinter.
Snakes are no exception, in the face of sudden cooling, the body temperature of snakes also plummeted, resulting in snakes having to find a suitable habitat as soon as possible, the fastest way is the environment where humans live. As a result, the snake hid in the homes of the inhabitants.
Would a snake choose to overwinter in an environment where humans live? This situation is basically impossible, and snakes appear in human habitation environments, only temporarily sheltered. Wait for the outside temperature to be right, and the snake will choose to flee. Because snakes are not capable of attacking (protecting themselves) when they hibernate, humans will pose a very serious danger to snakes.
It is understood that during the hibernation of the snake, the body temperature drops to 1 to 9 degrees Celsius, the breathing is weak, the heartbeat becomes slower, and the sensitivity to external stimuli decreases.
The second is food, in the human habitation environment, the food activity of snakes is very high, in the golden autumn october, human habitation environment, harvest a lot of grain, which also provides rich food for rats, snakes appear in the house, can catch a large number of hibernating food, can be stored for hibernation a lot of food.
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Snakes are a class of animals under the phylum Chordata, reptiles, and belong to the category of cold-blooded animals. During hibernation, snakes usually choose multiple snakes to gather together to maintain body temperature.
Once the hibernation is over, it is very likely that they will kill each other, the main reason is that after the hibernation, the snake needs a lot of food to replenish its physical strength, and the fastest way is to be around the food. Some snakes choose to go out in search of food, such as preying on rats near houses where humans live.
Do snakes eat food during hibernation? In fact, snakes prey on large amounts of food before hibernation, and then enter hibernation, during which they consume food and fat obtained throughout the summer to overwinter.
This is also a law of nature, and many animals go into hibernation when food is scarce. Therefore, the phenomenon of hibernation is a way to adapt to the bad environment in the struggle for animal survival.
When animals hibernate, they will not starve to death without eating for a winter. Because before hibernation, they have long begun to prepare for hibernation, that is, from the summer, they gradually accumulate nutrients, especially fat, inside their bodies.
When the hibernation period comes, the accumulated nutrients in the body are quite a lot, so it appears to be obese. These nutrients are accumulated enough to meet the needs of the body throughout the hibernation process.
In summary, the snakes officially entered hibernation and gradually disappeared from people's field of vision. According to the speculation of meteorological experts, the world will usher in the La Niña effect in the winter of 2021, and China is likely to encounter cold weather in 2008, and it is very likely that a large number of snakes will disappear.
Both the emergence of cold and high temperatures will cause a sharp decline in populations, but also will cause the destruction of the underlying ecosystem, resulting in large-scale reproduction of some species due to the lack of natural enemies, which will cause serious damage to agricultural production.