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A girl climbs a mountain and meets a poisonous snake, so she comes forward for a group photo
Recently, Ms. Zhan and her friends went to Mangshan Mountain in Yizhang County, Hunan Province to climb.
If you are a friend who likes to pay attention to animals, do you think of the famous snakes when you hear this place name? Because they were too rare, they were made up many settings, making them a hot topic of marketing numbers. Ms. Zhan was lucky to meet her this time.
When they reached a certain step, they suddenly saw a green mottled snake curling up on the step to rest. Because they had checked the data of Mangshan before, they soon recognized that this was the first keyword that jumped out of Mangshan: Mangshan brand iron head snake! All kinds of information about this snake are constantly emerging: "national first-class protected animal", "worth 5 million in the black market", "giant panda in snakes", "world-class endangered species", "less than one thousand in the world"
A series of famous keywords made Ms. Zhan suddenly lose her sense of fear. She forgot that the Mangshan iron head was also a poisonous snake with blood poison. She actually sat two steps away from the snake and took a picture with it. Later, she published the picture on the Internet.
This kind of behavior has not unexpectedly caused controversy, but it is not a controversy. Basically, people on the Internet are accusing this woman of her behavior. The first is to completely disregard their own life safety, and the second is to disturb wild animals.
A reporter went to interview Ms. Zhan. Ms. Zhan said that at that time, she felt very honored to take a group photo with such a rare animal. In addition, she had heard that it was OK for someone to eat and sleep with Mangshan soldering iron head, so she thought the snake was very docile. In fact, the so-called eating and sleeping together was studied by researchers in a cage.
Now that we are talking about this rare snake, let's get to know it a little.
Zhaoermia mangshanensis
Mangshan Iron Head Snake is actually the old name of the species. Its official Chinese name should be Mangshan Protobothrops mangshanensis. It is an endemic species only distributed in China. At present, it can only be found in Yizhang County of Hunan Province and Ruyuan Yao Autonomous County of Guangdong Province, with a narrow distribution range.
Mangshan Agkistrodon halys is a medium and large poisonous snake, and its maximum body length can exceed 2 meters. Even snake scares have to sigh: they are really gorgeous. Their bodies are covered with bright green and brown speckled scales, but their tails are white. This magical combination can obviously make them perfectly integrate with the forest ground, and more convenient to ambush prey. The white tails are used to imitate larvae, attracting small mammals or birds to throw themselves into the trap.
The biggest misunderstanding about them for a long time is their toxicity. Because of their rarity, they are always said by the marketing number to be the most toxic poisonous snakes in China and even in the world. In fact, according to research, the median lethal dose of Agkistrodon mangshanensis is only 4.3 mg/kg in the abdominal cavity, which is far lower than the average level of most venomous snakes in China. However, this does not mean that their toxicity is not worth mentioning. Their venom is mainly blood poison, and there is a small amount of neurotoxin. After being injected with the venom, patients will have serious blood coagulation dysfunction, and the wound will continue to swell.
present situation
Their beautiful appearance and seriously overestimated toxicity have attracted wide attention, but unfortunately, there are also some real poachers among those who pay attention to them. Agkistrodon mangshanensis is favored by outlaws in international pet trade, animal collection and venom collection. Long term poaching and continuous habitat loss have led to the continuous decline of the wild population of Agkistrodon mangshanensis.
The species was first described in 1989, but at that time they were rarely found in the wild. In 1994, the National Action Plan for Biodiversity Conservation listed Agkistrodon mangshanensis as "an endangered species of international priority protection", and its priority was even higher than that of pandas, so it seemed not appropriate to call it "giant panda in snakes".
In order to better protect this species, Mr. Chen Yuanhui, a famous snake expert and the team who discovered Agkistrodon acutus in Mangshan, studied its status and distribution from 2007 to 2010. They believed that the total population of this species was estimated to be 462. Chen Yuanhui also studied various aspects of the snake, and only with data can we find ways to protect it, He even amputated a finger when it was bitten by a spear head of Mangshan Mountain.
The current habitats of Agkistrodon mangshanensis are listed as national nature reserves, which are Mangshan National Nature Reserve in Hunan Province and Nanling National Nature Reserve in Guangdong Province. Their protection level has made them strictly protected. In addition, the Mangshan Agkistrodon acutus has repeatedly reported successful artificial breeding, and has tried to release it to its original habitat.
I can't find the data of the current quantity, so it must have improved.
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