1. Viper nemesis snake badger
The snake badger, also known as Montgot, is about 75 cm long, with a small head, a pointed mouth, a slender tail, which once accounted for more than half of its body length, and is covered with gray and a small amount of brownish-yellow hair, and is a typical omnivorous small animal, especially the snake meat, including the discolored cobra.
Snake badgers seem to be inherently snake nemesis, similar to the relationship between cat and mouse. There was a classic experiment: putting a captive snake badger and a cobra together. At first the cobra saw the snake beast frightened, shrunk into a ball, and trembled, at the same time, the snake badger was so nervous that all the hair on his body stood up.
When the cobra is lying motionless on the ground, the snake badger will come forward and tease it. The increasingly enraged cobra erected its front body with its abdomen as a support point, its neck expanded several times as if it were filled with air, its eyes stared viciously at the snake, constantly making a "whirring" sound, and its head suddenly reached out to the snakeger from time to time, trying to bite it.
The snakeger is small and agile, and with a slightly neat flash, it runs behind the cobra's body. After a few rounds of playing, the cobra was exhausted and exhausted, exhausted and breathless, and the snake badger took the opportunity to grab the cobra's neck and hit it fatally, and then ate the snake meat and ate a good meal. You know, this captive snake badger has never seen a cobra before, including other snakes.
What's more, a plastic toy snake is waved in front of the snake badger, and the snake badger immediately "shakes spirits" like chicken blood, runs over to grin at the cobra, or pounces on it to bite, or keeps teasing. Therefore, it is not too much to say that snakes and snakes have a feud.
Why don't snakes bite snakes and eat snake meat, so why aren't they poisoned by "snake venom"? There's a lot of attention to it. Generally speaking, snake venom is divided into three kinds, one is neural snake venom, one is viral snake venom, and the last is mixed snake venom, of which the virus belongs to the kind that can kill people in a short period of time, and the toxins of the latter two are relatively weak. The study found that the above snake venom has no effect on snake badgers, and there are multiple explanations for how snake badgers dissolve these toxins.
Some experts believe that the answer lies in the digestive tract of the snake badger, the digestive tract and surrounding organs will secrete an acidic substance, which can just decompose and clean up the snake venom; in this way, the snake venom will not be immersed in the blood, and naturally will not endanger the life of the snake badger. Wild snake badgers sometimes experience brief paralysis if they are bitten by a venomous snake containing strong neurosenteric snake venom, which seems to confirm the above statement. However, the acid has not yet been extracted from the snake badger.
Another group of experts believe that it may be related to the food that snake badgers eat. Snake badgers have been active in the wild for a long time, and when swallowing certain plants and melons, they absorb the special substances inside, which can just decompose snake venom and reduce its toxicity. The paradox is that snake badgers have long been artificially fed, and the food they put in is fixed, and there can be no special ingredients. There is also another explanation that a certain substance secreted in the body of the snake badger bears a certain function and demand, and happens to have the effect of decomposing snake venom. In other words, whether it is a wild snake or a domestic snake badger, it will be secreted normally regardless of whether the toxin is present or not.
2, snake badger in Dalian Snake Island is probably in a difficult situation
Snake badgers see poisonous snakes, kill toxins, eat poisonous snakes like eating snacks, so what kind of scene will it be if the snake badger is placed in Dalian Snake Island in China? This issue has triggered a heated discussion among netizens, and the final result is that the snake and badger, which has always been invincible, may return home.
Dalian Snake Island is the most well-known among the 6 snake islands in China, the island is 1500 meters long, 800 meters wide, an area of 1.2 square kilometers, the highest main peak is 216 meters, and there are cliffs on all sides, located in the Bohai Sea northwest of Lushun, and the nearest distance from the land is 7 kilometers. There are 20,000 black-browed pit vipers on the island, making it the only snake island in the world inhabited by a single snake species.
In addition to the black-browed pit viper, there are migratory birds and brown rats, of which the brown-browed pit vipers, which have escaped to the island in recent years from fishing boats on the shore, are now entangled in a difficult fight with the black-browed pit viper. In addition, there are some small reptiles on Dalian Snake Island.
Why is it said that the snake badger is in a difficult situation after entering Dalian Snake Island? They may even starve to death.
The snake badger bites the black-browed pit viper like a snack, which is simply delusional. About 100 million years ago, due to the separation of the crustal movement snake island from Dalian, the original lush island ecosystem was simple and fragile, and it was unable to bear the food needs of the original organisms on the island, and one by one died one after another, leaving only a few animals with strong vitality, including the black-browed pit viper.
The Black-browed Viper has developed a special skill to survive better. The black-browed pit viper eats only a short few months a year, encounters a harsh environment of lack of food, and can survive until the spring of the following year without eating food throughout the year. Moreover, in order to further reduce energy consumption, the black-browed pit viper not only hibernates, but also sleeps in summer, which is the only snake species in the world that sleeps both winter and summer. In other words, it is not easy for a snake badger to see it.
In addition, the snake venom of the black-browed pit viper is also stronger than that of the average pit viper. It is reported that 1 gram of snake venom can poison 30,000 pigeons and 1,000 rabbits, and a big man cannot withstand 0.1 grams of snake venom. Because for hundreds of millions of years, the food on Snake Island is pitifully small, which makes the black-browed pit viper more and more poisonous, because only by killing migratory birds can they fill their stomachs. Moreover, the snake venom of the black-browed pit viper belongs to the neurotype, although it is unlikely to kill the snake badger immediately, but it can make it temporarily paralyzed, reduce the efficiency of action, and leave time for other black-browed vipers to escape.
More critically, snake badgers are mainly active in Hainan, Guangdong, Yunnan and other areas with high temperatures in China, and snake badgers with four distinct seasons on Snake Island may not be able to withstand it. Even if they can endure the torture of cold winter, the rats and snake badgers of Snake Island have burrowed into caves and hidden in winter, where to forage for food?
So when the black-browed pit viper doesn't give the snake badger a chance to fight, how can the snake-brow viper eat the black-browed pit viper? A snake expert once said: Even if you send 2 poisonous snake busters flat-headed brother and snake badger, there is a high probability that you will starve. In fact, this is only a hypothesis, since 1981 China has set up the entire snake island as a protected area, to know that the price of the black-browed pit viper has soared in recent years, comparable to gold, and researchers have extracted effective substances for the treatment of tumors from snake venom, and their in-depth development is being intensively promoted, and they are not willing to let it take risks.
Original: Old High