- Can bats eat them in the end?
Inscription: Only after the 20th year of this century, there have been two major outbreaks, and while people are examining their own lifestyles, they also focus their original sin on a small wild animal, which is a bat. To be precise, bats are also the original inhabitants of the earth, for thousands of years, silently living in their own world, day and night, looking for food and reproduction, and there is no conflict with other animals, which can be said to be "harmless to humans and animals". There is no cause or evidence of causing plague, including animal plague. But why focus on it both times? Or how much magic do bats have to attract so much hatred? This article explores the "magic" of bats, and can only use this word to describe it.
<h1 class= "pgc-h-arrow-right" > the origin of "foreign rats"</h1>
—— The Jianghuai region calls bats foreign rats.
This "ocean" is not the ocean of the West, and it is called like the "foreign oil" and "foreign fire" of the moorif. Bats are native creatures, and the reason why they are called this way is that they look like rats and squeak like rats. Then it can actually fly, and it flies silently, up and down like a piece of goose feathers, more flexible than a bird. I think it should be "飏" instead of "foreign", but the history of Zhengshi does not remember slang, and it falls into the colloquial "foreign" word.
- Bats in biology are clear.
The history of bats is older than that of humans. It can be said that when there were no people on the earth, there were bats. There is no need to deductive reasoning data data here, only physical evidence. To date, fossilized hominid skeletons, found in Ethiopia in 1992, belong to the archaeopteryx, ancestors of humans, 4.4 million years ago. However, the bat fossil found in Wyoming, USA, is 50 million years old, called the index finger is the god bat. The million level of the era and the tens of millions of levels, this gap is a bit large.
There are more species of bats than humans. Expressed in biological terms, there are 962 species of bats, and only 4 species of humans. Although the classification criteria are not very different, it is enough to prove that bats are a large species.
● There are more bats than humans. According to the zoological classification, humans and bats belong to the mammalian class, and bats occupy an absolute advantage in numbers. Conservative estimates are that there are 20 billion in the world, three times as many as humans. Most typically, there is a cave in Texas called Blanken's, 20 miles from San Antonio and 11 miles from the U.S. Joint Air Force Base in San Antonio-Randolph. It is said that this cave is the largest bat cave in the world, gathering 20 million bats from March to October every year, which attracts the International Bat Conservation Organization to buy all the land to protect it. At the same time, it also affected US military aircraft, and the airport often published news of bat attacks on aircraft.
- The gorgeous family of bats.
● The largest bat. The fox bat, also known as fruit bats, distributed in Southeast Asia and Africa, has wings spread up to 2 meters and weighs more than one kilogram. What's strange is that every October, 8 million fruit bats flock to Zambia's Kasanka National Park, where they inhabit an acre of woods during the day, so much so that the trees weigh 8,000 tons a day.
● The smallest bat. A species that grows in Thailand is called bumblebee bats, also known as pig-nosed bats. Mainly the body is too petite, bumblebee so long, 3 cm. And the nose shape is strange, like the nose of a pig, so it is also called a pig-nosed bat. Look at its proportions on the fingers, but it is not a hummingbird in a bird, a teacup dog in a dog.
● The fiercest bat. A species of bat distributed in the Americas, it is ugly and vicious in appearance, small in size, and weighs more than 30 grams. This guy sucks blood for a living, sucks the blood of animals, like a blood-sucking mosquito, with sharp teeth so sharp that it can't feel it when it pierces into the skin, while secreting anticoagulants, sucking more than half the weight of blood at a time. Because of its behavior and appearance, it has become the material prototype of the vampire in Western literary and artistic works. Artistically reproduced, it is extremely disgusting and terrifying.
<h1 class= "pgc-h-arrow-right" > the heavens and hells of bats</h1>
——The auspicious totem of China's traditional culture.
In human cultural consciousness, there will be reverence for things and phenomena that are not yet recognized. Bats lived in the world before humans, and their habits were reversed, they came out day and night, and stayed in the dark during the day. It is born with a sense of mystery and is harmless to humans and animals. The key is because of the name of the voice, accounting for a "Fu" sound, so the whole image is plumped up, very early became a cultural totem, never said it is bad. For example, auspicious and ruyi, the ancient "old man's music", Empress Dowager Cixi's inlaid with five bats, called Wufu Fengshou. All the auspicious totems, the Five Blessings Linmen, and the Fulu Shouxi Fortune are bats carrying girders, and they cannot leave it.
This aspect does not need to be examined, from human beings have a way of expressing ideas, such as rock paintings, clay sculptures, and later words and paintings, bats are totems of blessing. We can casually look at the traditional pictures and texts, and all the blessed ones are bat patterns, that is, taoist auspicious clouds, all from the bat image.
- Bats are originally beneficial beasts.
Bats can fly, but they cannot be classified as bird families, but mammals, orcs. The Ming Dynasty writer Feng Menglong (1575-1646) had a work called "Laughing House", similar to today's jokes. There is a special talk about the attributes of bats, and the literary style is explanatory:
Phoenix Shou, hundreds of birds asahi, only bats do not arrive. Feng Zhizhi said: "Ru ju wuxia, why be proud?" Bat Yue: "I have enough feet and belong to the beast, why is He Ru?" "One day, the unicorn is born, the bat does not arrive, and the lin is also responsible." Bat: "I have wings and belong to birds, so why should I be congratulated?" Lin Feng met, said and sighed at each other, "Nowadays, the world is evil, and it is really helpless to give birth to such a non-bird and beast-less person!" ”
On the birthday of the phoenix of the king of the birds, all the birds came to celebrate the birthday, but the bats did not come. The phoenix scolded it: "I am your leader, why dare to be arrogant to me?" The bat replied, "I have feet, but the beast is not a bird, and it is not in your control." Another day, the birthday of the king of the hundred beasts, Qilin still did not go, and Qilin blamed it. The bat said, "I have wings, a bird and not a beast, so why should I give you a birthday?" When the phoenix and the qilin met, they both felt very helpless, and sighed: "The world is getting worse, and there is really no way for this guy who is not a bird or a beast!" ”
Then again, why bats can coexist peacefully with people, and why they are so revered, in addition to the mysterious factor, bats are helpful to humans. Or the aforementioned Blanken Bat Cave in the United States, what is the concept of living 20 million bats? Nearby is a cotton-producing area, and the local agricultural department has statistics that these bats eat several tons of cotton pests every night, saving cotton farmers $740,000 a year in pest control costs, not counting the factors that increase production.
This is also the reason why our ancients loved bats. For example, in summer nights, where there are bats, there are fewer mosquitoes. A bat can eat hundreds of flying insects a night, like a cat catching a mouse dog watching the door, and is a good friend of mankind. Unlike Wong Tai Sin, he also catches mice, but he is very hungry and steals chickens, so people don't love it.
- Sealed demons.
From the events of 2002, people focused on bats and found that they actually carried so many viruses. Therefore, there is no time to think about why millions of years have not infected humans, do not consider why they have caused people, and do not introspect their own problems, and push the responsibility to the bats first. As a result, people are relaxed, and the bat does not know if he has been wronged, and he will not say it anyway. I heard that some places are still engaged in what extinction bat activities, and it is believed that it will be extinct, and the virus will be gone.
In fact, this problem of carrying the virus should be figured out by scientists, why has it not infected humans for so many thousand years, but now it is coming? The legends of the ancients were not like this. To say that it is not only harmless to disease, but also the whistleblower of the plague. Before the plague came, it would fly to people's houses to report the news, and people would see the dying bats and know that the plague was coming. So he made a fire to remove the virus from the bats, put it back in the cave, and then took enough dry food and supplies, hid in the mountains, waited until the plague was over, and then went home, first smoked the house with bamboo leaves, and then returned to live and work in peace.
< h1 class= "pgc-h-arrow-right" > whether bats can eat or not</h1>
Bats can indeed be eaten.
On the island of Pemba in Tanzania on the east coast of Africa, the largest native bat is the fruit bat, which is called the flying fox bat. Because it is large, eats fruits and nectar, and the meat tastes as delicious as chicken, it has become a local delicacy, so that it is about to become extinct, and in 1992 it was listed as an endangered species by the International Union for Conservation of Nature, and protective measures were taken.
Some parts of our country also have the habit of eating bats. Su Dongpo wrote a poem during his demotion of Danzhou, "Smelling from Skinny Ear to Rare Meat", describing that among the foods eaten by locals, there are bats:
The natives ate taro and recommended burning bats with lavender rats.
Old smell honey taste vomit, slightly closer to shrimp toad edge customs.
Most areas do not eat it, including Cantonese people with a wide range of recipes. It can be said that those who fly in the sky, those who run on the ground, and those who swim in the water have no living things that they do not eat. But don't eat bats, and swallows, treat them as good friends, and kill them without eating them.
Bats really don't eat.
Not only don't eat bats, but don't eat all the wildlife. More than four hundred years ago, Li Shizhen warned that the meat of wild animals is poisonous. In order to remember in his "Compendium of Materia Medica" is very detailed, almost including the main wild animals.
But there is a very bad thing in Chinese food culture, that is, it is particularly prominent in the social nature of food. Unlike the Western people's food attitude, it is about nutrition, followed by taste. We are talking about face, followed by taste, and the least concerned is nutrition. The so-called face is to overemphasize the social attributes of food, things are scarce and expensive, full of warmth and lust, talk about face when you have money, and eat scarce food as a show off capital. Bats, pangolins, civets and other small and pitiful, naturally can not escape the bad luck of being eaten.
Most of the people who eat wild animals are learned, at least not illiterate. When eating, it is not necessary to be compassionate, but also know that it is not as nutritious and taste as poultry and livestock. But face is a big deal, and eating it is like suffering from a loss of heart, regardless of it.
Besides, all wild animals, not to mention what viruses they carry, how can the taste catch up with domestication, otherwise the tens of thousands of years of human domestication of animals will be wasted. It is a very simple phenomenon, wild boar has no domestic pork aroma.
Bats are already in crisis.
Explained from a theological point of view, every species has the necessity of existence in the creation of heaven. Mosquitoes, for example, hate it for biting people and sucking blood, and think that they should not have it. However, from a historical point of view, mosquitoes have a great role in human beings. We all know that in the Western Middle Ages, a Y technique was popular, and people would faint under certain agitation conditions and seriously die. Their bloodletting L method is very effective and immediate. This method has been in Our country earlier, summer heat stroke, commonly known as sha, if not in time to treat L there is a risk of life. The most effective way is to bleed, and the tip of the middle finger or arm will puncture a little blood, and it will be fine soon. Mosquitoes actually play this role, so that you are often in a state of light bloodletting throughout the summer, not to get heat stroke, so that you can spend the summer safely.
Not to mention that there are places to exterminate bats recently, according to the 2011 news of the World Bat Year, more than half of the world's bat species are endangered. This data makes people believe that the food of bats is insects and fruits, nectar. The proliferation of pesticide use, the endangerment of bees, and the large reduction of bats are not difficult to understand. Just imagine, bats are really going to disappear, what benefits can people get? Therefore, when we protect ourselves, we must protect the living environment and lifestyle, not to eliminate other creatures. Treat bats and never eat them.