Recently, the Hainan food blogger "Ah Zhuang Pot Himself" has been in trouble because of the live broadcast of eating conch stalls. On May 11, the official microblog of the Hainan Provincial Public Security Department said that the Qionghai police had taken food bloggers "Ah Zhuang Guo himself" into criminal detention according to law for eating the national second-level protected animal "Faluo".
After the news came out, many netizens expressed their support, thinking that bloggers should not eat indiscriminately, at least before eating to understand whether the snail is protecting animals in the end, but there are also some netizens who do not understand, this year to eat a snail is also so big a sin, what is this snail, what is the use of protecting it?
The slow-swallowing Dafa snail is actually the protector of the seabed
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The snail, also known as the anchovy snail, belongs to the mollusk phylum gastropod inlaid snail family, the adult shell is about 33 cm long, is the largest of the inlay snail family, together with the Marlboro, Tangguan snail and Nautilus and called the world's four famous snails. The snail is spindle-shaped, with a milky white shell and dark brown markings, and often inhabits coral reefs or rocky seabeds in the intertidal zone or at depths below 20 meters.
Four famous snails
Although the surface of the snail has a nodular protrusion, the shell wall is very thick, so it has a high ornamental value after polishing and smoothing, in addition, after the snail grinds off the top of the shell, it can also make a "whining" sound. According to the Buddhist scriptures, when Shakyamuni spoke, the sound sounded like a large conch in all directions. It is also for this reason that the Dharma Snail is also a lip-vibrating instrument that Buddhism plays during religious ceremonies.
In Buddhism, the sound of the Dharma snail represents the sound of the Dharma, and it is said that sentient beings who hear the sound of the Dharma snail can eliminate the obstacle of sin and enter the world of bliss. In ancient times, the snail was also used as a trumpet by tribes and armies. Qi Jiguang, a general of the Ming Dynasty's anti-Wu Dynasty, said in his military work "Ji Xiao Xinshu And Orders": "Whoever blows a snail wants the soldiers to get up.", and this is the law snail.
It can be said that China has had the habit of catching snails since ancient times, but since February 5, 2021, after the latest version of the "List of Wild Animals under National Key Protection" was announced, the snails have been listed as national second-level protected animals, and have been officially promoted to the "snails under the bottom of prison" in the mouths of netizens. Some people may wonder, why eat well, suddenly do not eat?
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Don't look at the snail with a weak appearance, but it is a fierce snail with the name of a protective god, and often plays a heroic role in the ecological balance of the seabed.
Fat lobster
On the seabed, the most beautiful creatures are corals, and corals are also the largest "real estate developers" in the marine ecology, and the calcium carbonate bones produced by countless corals are constantly accumulated to form coral reefs of various colors and shapes, which provide a good and affordable place for marine life. Lobsters, crabs and marine fish can hide from predators in coral reefs, eat and drink, and fall in love with children, which ultimately provides humans with abundant seafood resources.
Bustling coral reefs
But the coral bushes have long been inhabited by a vicious force, the long-spined starfish. Longthornous starfish feed mainly on corals, and the amount of food is staggering, with each starfish eating hundreds of square centimeters of coral per day on average. When there are more than 30 spiny starfish per hectare, the reef ecology is unbalanced, with the result that many marine life is displaced and populations are reduced or disappeared.
The evil forces of the sea, the long-spined starfish
And the long-spined starfish has a strong vitality, called the undersea Wolverine, even if it is shredded and thrown into the sea, it will not die, and these fragments will eventually grow into a new long-spined starfish, which can really be described as "killing one me and thousands of me". Over the past 60 years, Australia's Great Barrier Reef has experienced three eruptions of long-spined starfish, devastating coral reef ecosystems.
However, one thing drops one thing, and for the extremely evil molecule long-spined starfish, the conch has a natural bloodline suppression. With a well-developed olfactory system, the snails can find and hunt long-spined starfish in complex coral reefs, and after chasing the sea star, they will wrap their teeth and tongue predators around the starfish, and use their body weight to suppress the long-spined starfish.
Long-spined starfish: Feel like your body is hollowed out!
Then, they will put the predator into the mouth plate of the abdomen of the long-spined starfish, and use its rough tongue teeth like a file to scrape the starfish into tiny pieces and swallow it into the abdomen, the whole process is as simple as you take a spoon to pick up the watermelon, at this time, even if the long-spined starfish is "Wolverine Ben Wolf", it is difficult to escape the fate of returning to the Western Heavens. Over the years, because of the over-collection of snails, the outbreak of long-spined starfish has become more and more frequent.
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As the patron saint of corals, in fact, many places abroad have long listed the french snail as a protected animal, for example, as early as 1982, the french snail was listed as a protected species in Australia, and its collection and import and export have been strictly restricted. Therefore, it is also wise for China to list the snail as a second-level protected animal in time, after all, past experience tells us that once the ecology is out of balance, it is quite difficult to repair it through human means. Finally, remind everyone that if you encounter strange creatures, remember not to rush to boil water, first understand whether it is to protect the animal, so as not to bring unnecessary trouble!