Playing with snakes like this, the heart is really big~
For pets, Xiaomei has always believed that this is personal freedom, and others should not be too harsh.
But this does not mean that any animal can be used as a pet.
especially snakes,
Moreover, it is still a poisonous snake!
According to the Harbin Daily, the emergency department of Heilongjiang Provincial Forest Industry General Hospital recently received patients who were bitten by pet snakes.
Among them, there was an 11-year-old little boy, the doctor learned after consultation, it was the child himself from the Internet to buy a "small green snake", want to raise it as a pet, the result of playing, the middle knuckle of the right hand, accidentally bitten by the snake, when sent to the hospital, the child's hand, has swollen into "two big"!
After injecting him with 3 serums in succession, the injury was considered to be better, and afterwards according to the child's own narrative, the "little green snake" that bit him was green in appearance, looked very beautiful, and the scientific name was called bamboo leaf green snake.
For this matter, Xiaomei does not want to blame the child's parents, did not fulfill the responsibility of care and education, things have happened, more to say is useless, I believe they have learned a profound lesson from this matter,
In this issue, Xiaomei mainly wants to talk to you about this bamboo leaf green snake that looks very beautiful, but it is extremely dangerous.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" > bamboo leaf green snake</h1>
The bamboo leaf green snake is a pipe tooth venomous snake of the genus Bamboo leaf green snake in the family Viper family.
Morphological characteristics
The head of this snake is large and triangular; the neck is thin, the tail is short, and it is winding; the maxilla has hollow tube teeth, has a buccal fossa, and has venom glands.
The maximum total length of males is 77 cm, and the maximum total length of females is 98.1 cm,
The biggest feature of this snake's appearance is that the back is green and looks very beautiful, but the tail back and tail tip are scorched red, which contrasts with the green of the whole body.
Their eyes are orange-red and have a longitudinal line on the side of the body that is half white, pale yellow, or red and white.
When judging the gender of this snake in appearance, it is mainly to look at the longitudinal lines on the side of their bodies, and the longitudinal lines on the side of the male snakes are red and white, reaching the angle of the mouth or the lower angle behind the eyes, and reaching the middle or base of the tail;
Females have lateral longitudinal lines of white or yellowish markings that occupy only the center of the most lay dorsal scales, are thinner, and the anterior end is less than the neck, and never reaches the posterior lower angle of the eye, and the posterior end to the base or anterior end of the tail.
Habits of life
Bamboo leaf green snakes like to perch on trees, especially in the bushes next to caves,
They are mostly active on rainy days, but can also be seen in the early evening on sunny days, especially in the evening and at night.
At night they have a habit of putting out fires, so campfires or torch-like incendiary materials do not have much deterrent effect on them.
They are suitable for small temperature difference range of activity, generally between 22-32 ° C,
The personality is neurotic, and when he is slightly frightened, he will take the initiative to attack.
Feeding on frogs, tadpoles, lizards, birds and small animals, generally except for hibernation in January and February, it can be eaten all year round, and it is more resistant to hunger, and can remain healthy without eating any food for more than 5 months.
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Although there are many people who raise pets now, some various animals can also be used as pets.
But for the bamboo leaf green snake, Xiaomei gave the answer:
Resolutely can not be kept as a pet!
It is mainly based on the following two reasons:
First, the policy definition is not clear
Bamboo leaf green snake is mainly distributed in China, Cambodia, India, Vietnam, Laos, Myanmar and other countries, because of its wide distribution, the existing large number, and the population is unlikely to decline too quickly, can not be counted as threatened, although it is classified as a "non-endangered" population by the IUCN,
However, on September 30, 2020, the State Forestry and Grassland Administration issued the Notice on Regulating the Scope of Classification and Management of Forbidden Wild Animals on its official website, which stipulates that breeding activities for edible purposes are prohibited for 45 species of wild animals such as bamboo leaf green snakes, but it is allowed to be used for non-edible purposes such as medicinal use, display, and scientific research.
Although the Notice does not explicitly state that it cannot be kept as a pet, it also does not expressly stipulate that individuals can keep such snakes as pets.
Personal breeding safeguards will have some loopholes, and snakes are creatures, there is a small slit can drill out, once run out, do not cause harm, in case of harm, it will inevitably bring unnecessary trouble to the individual breeder!
Second, the bamboo leaf green snake is a poisonous snake, which is very harmful
Bamboo leaf green snake in China is one of the top ten poisonous snakes,
Although this type of snake only excretes a small amount of venom when biting people, the average is only 30 mg, among the top ten poisonous snakes, it belongs to the lowest fatality rate, only about 1%.
However, the toxin of the bamboo leaf green snake is a circulating venom, which has a wide variety of toxins and extremely complex components, mainly to attack the cardiovascular and blood systems.
Once a person is bitten by it, the wound will produce a sharp pain sensation, and the affected area will show a burning state in a short period of time, local redness and swelling, and even ulceration, which is similar to the fire poison symptoms of Chinese medicine, so the toxin of the bamboo leaf green snake is also called "fire poison"!
In addition, because the bamboo leaf green snake is emerald green, colorful, very charming and hidden, it is difficult for people to find their existence when passing by or approaching them.
In addition, this snake likes to inhabit the branches of the trees that are entangled in high places, and it belongs to the kind of neurotic, sensitive creatures that will suddenly attack the approaching person, and the attack site is often the head and neck of the person, so the harm is extremely great!
Expanded information: China's top ten poisonous snakes
Ten species of snakes with high venom exist in China, which are divided into sea snakes, barramundi snakes, silver ring snakes, king cobras, Zhoushan cobras, original spearhead pit vipers, white-browed pit vipers, white-lipped bamboo leaf greens, round-spotted vipers, and golden-ringed snakes.
In the end, Xiaomei wants to say that whether it is the bamboo leaf green snake or other snakes, they are all very attractive creatures, whether it is because of their strange crawling methods, or their attractive and beautiful appearance, or their terrifying fangs and horror images.
No matter where it is, as long as there is a snake, it will often attract a large group of people to come and watch, especially the children, who are even more excited.
In short, people's impression of snakes is both scared and curious!
But Xiaomei feels that don't because of this special feeling, desperate to raise one to play, after all, we are not "three brothers", there is no divine protection body, there are so many types of pets to raise, why do you have to raise snakes?
At least Xiaomei did not dare to try, after all, the goods, just looking at it are extremely mad ~ ~