The hand is punctured with skin, and someone's first reaction is to put the finger in the mouth and suck the wound hard, regardless of whether this "soil method" is effective or not, the risk is inevitable.
If it happens to be a poisonous animal that stabs a person, it is hot and paralyzing, and the heavy is fainting and dying, and a dazzling (deadly) small bird living in Papua New Guinea is the black-headed forest partridge, which is this poisonous presence.
It is said to be eye-catching because the feathers of this bird are black and orange, the head, wings, and tail are shiny black, and the front chest and back are bright orange.
It is said that it kills people, because this bird has poison from its skin to its feathers, and if humans are scratched and stabbed by it, even if they touch their feathers, it may cause burning, numbness, and pain.
Perhaps because of its special appearance, the indigenous people of Papua New Guinea have long noticed the presence of the black-headed forest harrier and described it as a bird with a foul smell, strong legs, a strong beak, and a violent temperament.
In the local language, the black-headed forest partridge also has a slightly strange name, the bitter bird, which is used to highlight the bitter taste on their skin, and people even nickname it "waste bird" because it is inedible.
In fact, not only indigenous, ornithologists showed enough interest in the black-headed forest partridge as early as the mid-19th century, not only mentioned in the handwriting, but also made some specimens to display in museums.
But at that time, people did not know that the black-headed forest partridge was poisonous.
It wasn't until the late 1980s and early 1990s that zoologists again noticed the black-headed forest wren, because in the process of catching the black-headed forest harrier many times, they often encountered when their fingers were broken by them.
Like ordinary people, they also tried to carry out the initial treatment by sucking the wound with their mouths, and the result was that without exception, they started numbness while the mouth was full of bitterness, and this intuitive feeling made them decide to conduct a detailed inspection of the feathers of the black-headed forest partridge, and the secret of the "poisonous bird" was revealed.
After identification, although it is a bird, the toxin contained in the feathers and skin of the black-headed forest partridge is a highly toxic toad toxin, which is similar to the toxin contained in the poison frog, which can act on people and animals, making their nerve centers spasm, and even out of control, and seriously affect the respiratory system and then die.
Scientists once extracted the toxin of the black-headed forest partridge and injected it into the body of the mouse, and the result was that the mouse convulsed several times and then died.
And according to estimates, an adult black-headed forest partridge skin contains the highest toxin, reaching 20 micrograms, followed by feathers, organs and bones, all of which add up to another 800 mice, which is extremely aggressive.
So the question is, we know that there are many poisonous animals, such as scorpions, centipedes, snakes, etc., there are not too many poisonous birds, so as a bird, why is the black-headed forest partridge so "poisonous"?
Scientists have come up with the idea that the black-headed forest harrier is poisonous at first only to avoid the infestation of parasites on the surface of the body, that is, to drive away harmful insects, and then the toxins became more and more severe, rising from dealing with small insects to "dissuading" all predators.
As for the source of the toxin, it may be a species of insect of the family Fluorite family, and the black-headed forest harrier collects high concentrations of toxins in the body by eating this insect and secretes it through the skin to the feathers, but how the black-headed forest harrier avoids the effects of this toxin is unknown.
Perhaps because of the smell and toxicity, the natives avoided the black-headed forest harrier, trying to avoid skin burns caused by touch, not to mention eating, touching is not willing to touch, which also makes the black-headed forest partridge never face the danger of population reduction, and it is also a good way to protect itself.