Poisonous snakes bite themselves into suicide to avoid imprisonment

A rustic dry snake (scientific name: Trimeresurus mucrosquamatus) bit into its body to "kill itself" after being caught and locked in a cage.

This rare story happened in Nantou County, Taiwan (China).

Nam Dau district protection team caught a poisonous snake of a mature dry wood species, about 1 meter long and locked it into an iron cage to hand over to the relevant department for handling.

Illustration.(Source: ellison.idv.tw)

However, everyone was surprised to see firsthand an extremely rare sight. The poisonous snake above opened its mouth in the middle of its body to "kill" its life soon after.

A member of the defense team said that often poisonous snakes are not the attacks that release the venom because doing so will be very harmful to their bodies.

Although it has not been determined whether the aforementioned dry snake snake has been killed by its venom itself, it is surprising that it opened its mouth and opened its mouth.

'Probably because of the imprisonment, the snake had the most time to think ,' said another funny officer.

News Network of China quoted a researcher on snakes, said that if snatching both poisonous snakes and non-poisonous snakes into a cage, poisonous snakes often bite dead venom-free snakes, rarely heard snakes. poison bites itself on his body.

The case of the above may be due to the arrest of the protective workers who have hurt the brain part of the snake, causing it to become disordered and out of control.