Look at the monitor lizards, look at the monitor lizards! Accompanied by an excited shout, cadres from Mucheng Township, Longling County, Baoshan City, Yunnan Province, quickly picked up their mobile phones to photograph this precious moment. On the 10th of this month, it was reported that the cadres were patrolling when a monitor lizard was suddenly spotted on a rock. As a wild, it is generally rare to see very rare animals, but I did not expect to find a difference this time. I have to say that this is really surprising and unexpected.
At the same time, it needs to be understood that whenever rare animals and plants are found, on the one hand, there will be this happy psychology. On the other hand, I believe that I am also very pleased, after all, the emergence of rare creatures generally has very high requirements for the original ecology of the environment. Our country has always practiced the concept of protecting the ecological protection environment to protect it well, and with the accumulation of results, now our country can say that the speed of improvement in the effectiveness can definitely be called the world's first.
At that time, due to the recording of this video, and then after the identification of experts, it was officially confirmed that it was an extremely rare animal called "round-nosed monitor lizard"! To say how rare it is, I believe that the text may not be able to express, but if you say that the country has now listed it as an endangered wild animal, and the number in China has been too small to count, in Yunnan Longling has not been shown in the wild for more than ten years, I believe this will be more intuitive understanding. Let's take a look at the situation of this newly discovered wild species.
The round-nosed monitor lizard is a species of monitor lizard, and it is well known that the world's largest lizard is the Komodo dragon living on the Indonesian island of Komodo Dragon, but in fact, the round-nosed monitor lizard is only secondary. According to relevant statistics, the round-nosed monitor lizard is the second largest and most widely distributed lizard on the earth! The round-nosed monitor lizard is 2 meters long, and the adult body size can reach 2.5 meters, which is even more frightening, this monitor lizard has a tail that is nearly 1.5 times the length of the body, and the total length can be up to 6.25 meters.
The appearance of this monitor lizard is the same as the name, both the pupils and the face and the head are rounded. One of the interesting things about this shape is that when it encounters danger, it will try to puff up its "cheeks", and the whole head is super round, accompanied by some noise, trying to scare off the enemy. In addition, the outer skin of this round-nosed monitor lizard is also very characteristic. Its appearance is covered with pale yellow and off-white, accompanied by a small number of black spots, and with the scales on the back of the tail, it is not too rough.
It also has to be said that the round-nosed monitor lizard stomach is really good. With a keen sense of smell, they can eat anything as long as they are hungry, and it feels like they can swallow everything, from insects, crabs and even snakes to their own kind, beasts, lazy cats, and shrews, from water to land. However, it is very cruel that when there is a great lack of food, they will even put their own children in their mouths and swallow. In fact, it is not the only cannibalistic dragon, as is the world's largest Komodo dragon.
Komodo dragons
Round-nosed monitor lizards are aggressive by nature, and one of the ways mentioned earlier when encountering enemies is to scare off the other party, and more often than not, it is another way to be tough. The round-nosed monitor lizard will spit out the food it has just eaten, and use the interference to either escape first or take advantage of its unintentional sneak attack. In the face of the enemy, it will pose as a fighting stalemate with the opponent, and then look for an opportunity to slowly approach the opponent with its tail to "fan" the opponent. Its tail is long and scaly, and the natural effect of hitting the body on the face is immediate. After all, it still has the advantage of retreating into the water, so this may also promote its aggressive habits.
The current number of round-nosed monitor lizards is too small to be counted, and because of this, it has been listed as a list of wild animals protected by the state, and has become a national treasure of the same level as China's giant pandas and tigers. Just a few days ago, everyone also knew that the news had been announced that the giant panda had been demoted, so it was calculated that this type of round-nosed monitor lizard was even rarer than the giant panda.
At present, the round-nosed monitor lizard has two forms: artificial cultivation and natural growth in the wild. In captivity, they are mainly fed fish, beef, refined pork, frogs, guinea pigs and so on. The round-nosed monitor lizard that grows in the wild is looking for food on its own, relying on the principle of "as long as you live to eat", coupled with its super "amphibious" ability to survive. But despite their super adaptability, why are round-nosed monitor lizards so scarce? In fact, the reason is very simple, this kind of human intervention is indispensable!
In the statistical report on the export volume of Indonesian round-nosed monitor lizards released from 2005 to 2014, it can be seen that 99.82% of round-nosed monitor lizards are artificially caught in the wild and sent to human tables around the world, or other markets. For China, in recent years, the protection has gradually increased, and perhaps it is precisely because of this round-nosed monitor lizard that it will reappear in the wild of Longling.
Wild animals and plants are our friends, only the ecological environment is restored, these rare animals and plants can return to our living home. Coupled with the increasing development of technology today, artificial farming has become an important way to continue their descendants.
In the future, for round-nosed monitor lizards, not to mention the influence of external factors, if we can restrain ourselves from eating them, there is no trade without the market, and I believe that their survival status will improve a lot, otherwise the "national treasure" of the animal kingdom may really be gone.