Although it is only the combination of "white black and red and yellow", the colors of admitting the wrong color will bring the killing of the body!

There are many pictures of snakes in the full text, but it has been hidden!

They all said that they were afraid of snakes, but yesterday was the World Snake Day. You have to give a snake a holiday. Don't forget that there are many small friends who belong to snakes!

But the title is too scared, but it will bring the wrong color to admitting the wrong color? This is by no means alarmist, because it is related to the "secret" of a snake world ...

In the United States, there are the following "hit shirts" snakes.

1, 2, and 3 "hit shirt" snake

No. 1 "Hit shirt" snake

Eastern coral snake (wikimedia Commons)

Scientific name: Micrurus Fulvius (East Coral Snake, American Coral Snake, Ordinary Coral Snake)

Distribution range: mainly distributed in southern United States, such as Clearona, Florida Peninsula, southern George Asia, Alabama, Mississippi, southeast of Louisiana, etc.

Habitan environment: It can adapt to a variety of environments, such as forests, rare tree grasslands, sandy ridges or streams with high terrain or low -lying.

Body type: The total length of the tail is generally 46-76cm, but in 1958 and 1996, it was discovered twice in Florida for more than 1.2m. The tail of the coral snake in the east of the male is longer than the tail of the coral snake in the east of the female, but the total length of the female coral snake is longer than that of the east coral snake.

Danger: The east coral snake belongs to the family of cobra, which is a toxic snake. Its venom can cause humans to have symptoms such as unclear mouth, visual abnormalities, and muscle paralysis, which will eventually lead to respiratory failure.

It is rare for human bite and death records. In the 1950s, two incidents that were bitten and died in the 1950s. With the application of effective antivirus serum in the 1960s, the death rate has always been lower than 20%lower. Level.

In 2006, a bite of a coral snake in the eastern part was died within a few hours after being bitten because he failed to seek medical care in time. Although the toxicity of the east coral snake is not one of the best in the poisonous snake world, it is still a very terrible poisonous snake.

No. 2 "Hit shirt" snake

Glenn Bartolotti Photo)

Scientific name: LAMPROPELTIS ELAPSOIDES (Gorilla King Snake)

Distribution range: It is mainly distributed in the southeast of the United States, located in Georgia and the Florida Peninsula.

The habitat environment: open forest, rare tree grasslands, farmland, and human activities. In spring, locals often find them in the swimming pool.

Body type: Adult scarlet king snake body is about 40-50cm long. The largest individual record is to find a 76.2cm scarlet king snake in Jones Berler.

Danger: The scarlet king snake is Lampropeltis, like most king snakes, which is non -toxic. The scarlet king snake is hidden, most of the time hidden underground, sometimes hidden under the dead bark, dead original wood, and usually comes out at night and heavy rain.

No. 3 "Hit shirt" snake

Glenn Bartolotti Photo)

Scientific name: CEMOPHORA COCCINEA (Scarlet Snake)

Distribution scope: mainly distributed in the coastal plains and Pedmont areas in the southeast of the United States. , South Carolina, North Carolina, Tennessee, Kentucky State, Illinois, Indiana, Virginia, Maryland, and Tellawa, New Jersey, Central Missouri State, and even the entire Florida. Essence

Habitan environment: Scarlet snake is extremely good at digging holes, so they like sandy soil, ground garbage, and an open forest area with organic fragments.

Body type: Adult scarlet snake includes a total of about 36-66cm in the overall tail.

Danger: No poisonous snake, even when it is picked up by humans, rarely bits, but it will release an unpleasant smell. Due to the loss of habitats, illegal capture, road crushing, direct killing, etc., the docile scarlet snake has been in a state of threat in the United States.

Where is the "hit shirt" snake easily confused?

Easy to confuse of color

You will be surprised to find that why did I not introduce their color characteristics? Hey, these three "hit shirts" snakes are the first feature that is easily confused. They have ring -shaped color blocks, and these colors are either black, red, not white, or yellow. (Nothing to indicate)

Black, white, red, yellow, black, white, black, yellow, white, white, white, black and yellow ... My mother, send it, how to distinguish it? Don't worry, let's record the color blocks appearing on them in the form of a table.

Easy confusion of distribution range

The color alone is not clear, even if it is even more terrible, these snakes still love to "make up" in one place. From the three types of "hit shirt" snakes below, we can clearly see that at least the distribution of the three "hit shirts" snakes in the ground borders of the southeast coastal states such as Florida is overlapped.

Eastern coral snake distribution range (HOWARDMORAND)

Scarlet king snake distribution range (VHS)

Scarlet snake distribution range (SREL)

Easy confusion of the habitat environment

I am not afraid in a state. In case of some snakes like to stay in the forest, some snakes like to stay in places where plants are scarce, can they distinguish which snake is according to their habitat environment? This kind of beauty stays in the spring and autumn dreams ... From the introduction of the three "hit shirts" snakes above, we can find at least two ecological environments that they like: 1. Forest; 2. Learn. Tree grassland.

It's troublesome, let me come to you, the current situation is that these three snakes "have confusing colors, the same distribution range, similar habitat environment ..."

Easy to confuse

You can bear more! The sensitive town may have found that the size of these three "hit shirts" snakes is not very different!

Qu Shigi

Judging from the general body length and the largest individual records: the overall length of the coral snake in the east of the adult generally does not exceed 80cm; but the largest individual of the adult scarlet king snake can be close to 80cm (76.2cm). However, the largest individual can also reach nearly 70cm (66cm), while the body length of the scarlet king snake and scarlet snake is roughly between 40-60cm. The weight of the three "hit shirts" snake is still not small.

The final dilemma: These three "hit shirts" snake owns:

1. Easy to be confusing color

2. The same distribution range

3. Similar habitat environment

4. The difference between the gap is not very different

Do you think you can see the ghost if you can distinguish it? But think about those aborigines living in these three snake habitats? If they do n’t want some ways to distinguish these snakes, do n’t they always send it?

Safe children's song

According to POWELL R, Conant R, Collins JT and other scholars, "Peter Sen's North American North American and Central Crane Animals and amphibians in the Wild Guide of the Wild Guide" recorded by scholars recorded that in some areas with these three types of "hits" snakes, such as Arizona, Carolina, State, local people have been a life -saving nursery rhyme by the elders from their childhood to distinguish these three snakes. The original text is probably:

"Red Next to Black, Safe from Attack; Red Next to YELLOW, You're A DEAD FELLOW,"

"Red Touching Black, Friend of Jack; Red Touching Yellow, You're A DEAD FELLOW"

"Red and Yellow Kill a Fellow"

The author has translated it for a while and sorted into a Chinese nursery rhymes of the prime minister's rhyme:

Red neighbors, don't panic.

Red neighbors, murderous madness.

Red neighbors are friends.

Red neighbors, lose their lives.

"Red neighbors, don't panic; red neighbors are friends" means that if the "red" of this snake is "black" next to it, no need to be afraid, this snake should be not poisonous, you can be friends with it, you can be friends with it. (It's just a kind of expression than a toxic snake). Let's take a look at the non -toxic scarlet king snake. Is it red next to black? Yes, non -toxic.

Glenn Bartolotti Photo)

Scarlet king snake body table "color block" schematic diagram

Let's take a look at the same non -toxic scarlet snake, which is still red next to black, non -toxic.

Glenn Bartolotti Photo)

Scarlet snake table "color block" schematic diagram

"Red neighbors, murderers; red neighbors, life lost" means, if this snake is red next to yellow, then do not provoke it and leave quickly. It is a toxic snake. Destiny.

Let's take a look at the toxic oriental coral snake. Sure enough, red and yellow are next to it, don't approach it!

Eastern coral snake (norman.benton)

Eastern coral snake table "color block" schematic diagram

Although the nursery rhymes are magical and really easy to use, it is the result of the experience of local residents. It must have omissions. For example, this nursery song is only applicable to the related snakes in the United States. It is tens of millions as the "Golden Science and Jade Law" to distinguish between the Caribbean Sea, China and the United States, and South America.

In addition, the wild guard Shane Townsend also observed that there is a unique behavior of the toxic east coral snake: if you rely on it too close, it will inhale the air into the anus and make a warning sound like a burst. If you hear this "voice of death", leave quickly!

Knowledge Link No. 4 "Hit Shirt" Snake

California Shan Snake (Dawn Ellner)

Scientific name: LAMPROPELTIS ZONATA (California King Snake)

Distribution range: Snakes in western North America are named because the main distribution is located in California.

Habitan environment: mainly distributed in mountainous areas.

Body type: adult California Shanwang snake body length is about 51-127cm

Dangerous: non -toxic

California Shanwu distribution range (red area)

Regarding this 4th hitting snake, because it is different from the first three types of snakes, it is not considered comparison, but we can still see if it can apply the song song written by residents in the southeast of the United States.

The color of the California Shanxu is mainly black, white, and red. Some individuals also appear yellow blocks, but their yellow and red are not next to them, and black and white are next to each other. "Life Rhymes". references

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Author: Qu 11, Master of History of Wuhan University,

Archaeological direction of Shang and Zhou Dynasties.

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