With the improvement of living standards, people's pursuit of spiritual life is getting higher and higher. In addition, the pressure of life is getting greater and greater, and the changes in the traditional family structure, pets have become the spiritual support of many people. Cats and dogs, which we are familiar with, have upgraded from the role of guarding the house and catching mice in the early years to the "spiritual companion", becoming the owner's playmate when he is leisurely.
Because different people have different hobbies, the types of pets are becoming more and more abundant. People are no longer limited to raising traditional pets such as cats, dogs, rabbits, ornamental fish, and turtles. They also raise spiders, lizards, snakes, centipedes, etc. Some even raise cockroaches as pets. And pets are often called " extrapet " , which is a pet that is different from conventional pets.
As international logistics and transportation becomes more and more developed, some people have turned their attention to pets that are not available in China, such as the toxic black widow spider , the foot-showing Venezuelan pink-footed bird-catching , the "strange fish" alligator gar that frequently appears in various places, huge pythons, etc. According to "2018 China Pet Industry White Paper ", the number of people raising pets in my country is as high as 73.55 million, of which 17.07 million raise "extra pets".
mentioned "sexual pet". According to media reports, on November 20, when checking emails entering the country, Haikou Customs intercepted 5 centipedes with a body length of 15-20 cm. After expert identification, these 5 centipedes are the largest known centipedes in the world, and are called the Galapagos giant centipede.
The words "Galapagos" are well known because the famous biologist Darwin visited the Galapagos Islands in 1835. This investigation also prompted him to propose the famous biological evolution theory . In 1978, the Galapagos Islands were included in the Endangered World Heritage Catalogue. The Galapagos Archipelagos Islands are rich in climate and volcanic landforms. There are a large number of strange flowers and plants growing on the island, and there are also a large number of rare birds and monsters. There are many rare animals in other places. The most famous one is the huge Galapagos tortoise. The Galapagos tortoise is said to be the longest-lived animal on the earth. Its lifespan is estimated to be 200 years old. Its body length is 1.2 meters, and the weight of adult males can reach 272-320 kilograms.
There is a huge elephant tortoise , and naturally there are huge centipedes. The entire morphological length of the Galapagos giant centipede can grow to 30-40 cm . At present, the largest Galapagos giant centipede has a body length of 62 cm. Moreover, the Galapagos giant centipede is not only big but also extremely toxic.
Centipede belongs to what we often call "one of the five poisons of " and the other four poisons are geckos, scorpions, snakes and toads. Since they are ranked among the five poisons, their toxicity is naturally not weak. In my country, centipedes are not widely distributed, and are limited to , , the southern part of Kangdian District, and , and the common ones include , thorny centipede, thorny centipede, thorny centipede, thorny centipede, red centipede, hormonal centipede, hormonal centipede, hormonal centipede, hormonal centipede, hormonal centipede, hormonal centipede, etc.
The most famous centipede in my country is the Shaoji Centipede. A blogger has been bitten by the Shaoji Centipede before. According to his description, half of his body was numb after being bitten, and he felt cold and hot. The bitten thumb was swollen twice as big as before, and he basically lost his intuition. It was not until 7 hours later that the perception of the thumb began to recover, and the numbness subsided to the forearm of the bitten arm.
The poison of centipedes is mainly used to capture prey. The larger the size of centipedes, the larger the prey, so the stronger the toxicity. The largest centipede in my country is usually considered to be red dragon centipede , and the body length can grow to 20-30 cm . The "Geography China" program team invited Mr. Zhao Li, a scientific consultant at CCTV, to go to Yunnan to find this red dragon centipede. At that time, they used chicken blood and internal organs to capture a red dragon centipede with a body length of 26 cm.In 2018, researchers from the Kunming Institute of Zoology in China put a red dragon centipede together, a teenager with a weight of 15 times that of a centipede. After the two met, the centipede was so fierce that it pounced on the little white rat . It took less than 30 seconds for the teenager to be declared dead.
But whether it is the domestic red dragon centipede or the thorny centipede, although it is quite toxic, it is a bit small compared to the Galapagos giant centipede. After all, the toxicity of the domestic centipede can only rank tenth in the global centipede ranking, and the toxicity of the Galapagos giant centipede can rank first. If is bitten by the Galapagos giant centipede, the bitten person will show fever, dizziness, headache, nausea, and in severe cases, such as convulsions and coma, and life-threatening treatment may be dangerous.
What are you buying for a big and poisonous centipede?
Galapagos giant centipede is very poisonous, what's the use of buying it? In most cases, it should be breeding as pets. It is understandable to raise pets, but raising foreign species as pets is not a good habit. For example, the crocodile gars that frequently appear in various places this year. It will take not long to incorporate one or two crocodile gars into a lake to eat all other fish in the lake. There are even incidents where children playing by the lake are bitten by the crocodile gars. As a pet, alligator gar appears in natural waters, which may be escape or artificial release, but no matter what method it is, it will have a serious impact on the local natural environment.
A fish that can only live in the water still has such great harm. It can crawl everywhere, with large and highly toxic giant centipede escapes or is released into the natural environment, and it will be completely unimaginable. In 2010, there was a report of a woman accidentally stepping on a centipede while walking outside at night. You should know that Qingdao has exceeded the boundary of centipede production under natural conditions.
There is another saying that someone bought the Galapagos giant centipede not for breeding, but for to soak in wine. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that centipedes have the effects of quenching wind and stopping spasms, detoxifying and dispersing knots, unblocking and relieving pain. It is said that the effect of using the Galapagos giant centipede to soak in wine is more powerful than that of the domestic "little centipede".
There are two ways to soak the centipede in wine. One is to burn the centipede to death with boiling water in advance, then insert the thin bamboo slices sharpened at both ends into the centipede's head and tail, straighten the centipede, and dry it before use. Another way is to place the living centipede directly into a bottle containing white wine. After putting the centipede in, seal the mouth of the bottle and soak it for 25 days to drink. But it should be noted that there should be no air left on it when soaking wine, because insects have relatively little demand for oxygen . If there is a lot of air left, larger centipedes may not die and may be bitten when opening the bottle cap. Previously, media reported that someone used live snakes to soak wine. After soaking for a while, he was bitten by a snake after opening the bottle cap.
It is necessary to remind everyone that whether it is bought as a pet or bought to soak in wine, buying living things from abroad to return to China is not an act worthy of advocacy. If you are not careful, it may lead to invasion of foreign species.
