"The total weight of human beings on the earth is 350 million tons, and the poultry and livestock raised by humans for their own food are as high as 700 million tons.
But humans are not satisfied, and have their appetites set their sights on wildlife, and all the other wildlife in the world add up to less than 100 million tons."
From SARS to the present, civets have basically become street rats, but this guy is actually more cute.
Its face is also called "flower-faced fox" because of its fancy face.
Civets are fat, with a short neck and shorter four legs, so they feel very cute.
Civets belong to the carnivorous and civet cat family in the biological world, preferring to inhabit mountain forests, living a diurnal and nocturnal life, going out to forage at night, and the peak period of activity is dusk and before sunrise.
They are good at climbing, have a keen sense of smell, and rely on their sense of smell to find food.
In China, civets are distributed in a large area south of North China, and there are also a small number in the Beijing area.
I believe that many people living in the northern countryside should have seen civets.
Especially at night, it is not difficult to find it, because at the foot of the mountain there are fruit trees with fruit growing fruit, and there are civets to move.
When many farmers plant fruit trees, the most feared thing is that when the fruit grows, the civets come down and eat it.
Although civets are carnivores, they live an omnivorous lifestyle and like to eat a variety of fresh fruits, hence the name. When food is scarce, it also feeds on leaves to feed its hunger.
Of course, as a carnivorous animal, all kinds of meat are not rejected, and civets in the southern region also have records of eating fish.
Civets have short legs and run slowly, tend to climb trees when encountering enemies, and release pungent gas bombs when enemies approach, which civets will use to "fart" away from enemies.
Although the civet cat looks very cute, the wild civet cat is very dangerous, because it has strong immunity, is not easy to get sick, becomes an intermediate host for the spread of SARS and other viruses, and carries a variety of internal parasites, including trichinella, Schistis fluke, etc., which can damage human lungs and central nervous system;
However, people have regarded civets as treasures in the mountains since ancient times, and in the 75 times of the "Dream of the Red Chamber", there are depictions of eating pickled civets, which shows that the upper class at that time regarded it as a delicacy.
"Out of the mix, always have to pay back", SARS in 2003 let us pay off a debt.
After that, the civet cat changed from a delicacy in people's eyes to a "plague god" in their hearts, and they avoided it.
But what about this civet?
Civets are state-protected animals that are forbidden to be hunted and eaten, but... But...... In the case of complete procedures, civets can be farmed, only need to go to the Animal Husbandry Bureau to apply for a breeding license.
Civets are bred to bring them to the table and to peel off their skins to make clothes, because the civets have excellent skins and can be made into furs.
To that, I just want to say...
I'll go......
With the current living conditions, any restaurant, any vegetable market, you can eat or make hundreds or more dishes, you have to live with civets?
The total weight of humans on the earth is 350 million tons, and the poultry and livestock raised by humans for their own consumption are as high as 700 million tons.
But humans aren't satisfied, and have their appetite for wildlife, which the world's other wildlife has combined to less than 100 million tons.
Seeing this data, how can we say that civets harm humans?
Hopefully, giving civets a peaceful life can also make us humans more peaceful and less thrilling.