Have you ever seen this animal?
Recently, a creature was found in the Hunhe River in Shenyang, and according to Han Xiaohu, a teacher at Shenyang Agricultural University, it is a peach blossom jellyfish known as the "giant panda in the water", and it is also a nationally protected animal!
National protected animals were fished out of the Hun River
"When I first saw them, it was amazing!" Swallow told reporters that it was really hard for her to believe that these "little elves" were actually found in the Hun River in our big Shenyang.
It turned out that on August 25, a team of Shenyang caring volunteers patrolled along the Shenyang section of the HunHe River. On the banks of the Hun River near the town of Gaokan on the waterfront road, volunteer swallows were attracted by something in the hands of a young man: a glassware containing several nearly transparent flocculent creatures that looked like jellyfish.
The young man's surname is Zhao, and according to him, they were just fished from the Hun River. Coincidentally, Swallow has been engaged in wildlife protection for many years, and out of her keen sense of wildlife protection, she realized that the young man was probably holding a nationally protected animal, the peach blossom jellyfish.
She immediately took out her mobile phone to check the Internet, and the results showed that these "elves" were extremely similar to peach blossom jellyfish. But here's the problem: online information shows that peach blossom jellyfish are generally produced in the Jiangnan area, and the northernmost border is also near Beijing, while there has never been a record of it in the northeast.
Peach blossom jellyfish are distributed all over the world, mainly in the southern region of China
In order to further identify what kind of creatures these little guys are, at the invitation of the parties, the reporter contacted Han Xiaohu, a teacher at the College of Animal Science and Veterinary Medicine of Shenyang Agricultural University. The other party did not dare to be sloppy at all, and carefully brought the little ones into the laboratory...
After nearly a week of waiting, the scientific identification results came out - on the morning of August 30, Han Xiaohu sent a positive answer: after scientific identification, these white transparent creatures found in the HunHe River are 99% similar to the Peach Blossom Jellyfish found in the waters of Zhejiang Province! According to this identification feature, it can be determined that Mr. Zhao's fishing in the Hun River should be The Peach Blossom Jellyfish of Suo's, which is a major discovery!
According to reports, there are more than 10 species of peach blossom jellyfish, and Suo's peach blossom jellyfish is one of them. According to the data, peach blossom jellyfish is distributed all over the world, including Japan, South Korea, the Philippines, Russia, France, Britain, Italy, Belgium, Sweden, the Netherlands, Spain, the United States, Canada, Panama and other places, China's peach blossom jellyfish is mainly distributed in Sichuan Province (Chengdu, Dujiangyan, Panzhihua, Luzhou), Zhejiang Province, Hubei Province, Jiangxi Province (Nanchang), Hunan Province (Changsha), Fujian Province (Xiamen), Henan Province (Xinyang) and other places.
Why is it in the Hun River?
Han Xiaohu excitedly told reporters that peach blossom jellyfish generally live in clean rivers and lakes, and the life cycle consists of asexual reproduction and sexual reproduction.
Because it inhabits freshwater, it is called freshwater jellyfish in English. In recent years, with the changes in the ecological environment in many places in southern China and the pollution of river water, the living environment of jellyfish is worrying, and its natural wild resources are becoming less and less, and it is in an endangered state. The emergence of peach blossom jellyfish in Shenyang confirms the improvement of the water quality of the Hunhe River.
According to the data, the peach blossom jellyfish has very strict requirements for water quality and temperature: the water temperature needs to be 18 ° C to 32 ° C to survive, if the water quality is up to standard, but the temperature and other conditions are not suitable, the jellyfish will sleep in a hydra state. According to the records, in China, the northernmost border of peach blossom jellyfish appears in Beijing, and it is safe to say that the Discovery of The Tao's Peach Blossom Jellyfish in the Hun River in Shenyang is the first time.
Han Xiaohu told reporters that peach blossom jellyfish were found in the Hun River, and he analyzed and guessed that there may be two situations: first, in the spring and summer of this year, the peach blossom jellyfish may be hidden in the body of turtles and fish, and these turtles and fish are brought back by the citizens from the south and released in the Hun River; the second, they may be naturally wild in the Hun River, but this possibility is very small, because in the northeast, the water temperature in winter is too low, and it is difficult for the peach blossom jellyfish to survive. But special circumstances cannot be ruled out: when the winter is cold, the peach blossom jellyfish becomes a very small hydra state for hibernation.
At present, it is impossible to determine which situation it belongs to, and we can only wait until next summer to see if there are still peach blossom jellyfish in the Hun River, and then the answer can be revealed. However, Han Xiaohu suggested that the relevant departments should take action to protect the peach blossom jellyfish currently in the Hun River and carry out artificial intervention and breeding, so that the peach blossom jellyfish can settle down in the Hun River for a long time.
Source: Shenyang Evening News, Shen Bao all-media reporter Tang Kuiyang, Shenyang Net
Editor: Wang Peiting