Is the golden ring snake toxic? What level of animal protection is it?

Golden ring snakes are distributed in Jiangxi, Fujian, Guangdong, Hainan, Guangxi and Yunnan in China. like other ring snake snakes, they move slowly, do not like to attack humans, and mainly feed on small vertebrates. Is the golden ring snake poisonous? Which is more poisonous than the silver ring snake? What level of animal protection is it?

Is the golden ring snake poisonous? Which is more poisonous than the silver ring snake?

Golden ring snake is a kind of venomous snake with front groove teeth, together with cobra and squirrel snake, known as "three snakes", is a famous edible snake species. The golden ring snake has thick stripes of gold and black and is similar to the yellow ring forest snake (a primitive venomous snake with venomous fangs at the back). The golden ring snake has a protruding spine on its quilt, so the profile of the body is very triangular.

Gold ring snake and silver ring snake have the same characteristics, one is yellow ring, the other is white ring. At the same time, these two kinds of venomous snakes are neurotoxins, which will paralyze the nerves and lead to respiratory paralysis and death after being bitten, which is particularly dangerous.

Don't mess with silver, but don't mess with silver. This sentence shows that gold ring snake and silver ring snake are more toxic. These two kinds of snakes are very toxic, but the silver ring snake is much more powerful than the golden ring snake. It is one of the most poisonous snakes in Chinese mainland. Generally speaking, if you can't get antivenom for half an hour after being bitten, it will be life-threatening. Compared with the silver ring snake, the gold ring snake is less toxic. As the saying goes, it doesn't matter if you are bitten by the gold ring snake and play a few cards and then go for treatment.

These two kinds of snakes are very different, both are black and white or black and yellow patterns, gold ring snakes are black and yellow, silver ring snakes are black and white. The golden ring snake's tail is blunt compared to the silver ring snake. They are afraid of light and usually come out at night, but gold ring snakes are more active than silver ring snakes, and sometimes come out during the day. When they encounter the sun, they will tuck their heads under their bodies. If you are bitten by a snake at night, the impression is not deep but very painful, you may be bitten by these two kinds of snakes, and you should see a doctor nearby as soon as possible. Although poisonous snakes are very poisonous, they generally have their own space for movement, and as long as people do not influence them and provoke them, they generally do not harm human beings.

Second, what level of protected animal is the golden ring snake?

The number of golden ring snakes in the wild has been extremely rare, because it is one of the famous edible snakes, snake body wine and snake gallbladder are also used in medicine, for a long time a large number of domestic sales or exports, resulting in a 50% decline in the number of golden ring snake species between 1997 and 2007. At present, this species has been listed in the list of terrestrial wildlife under state protection or important economic and scientific research value issued by the State Forestry Administration of China on August 1, 2000. Note that illegal hunting and killing of wild animals protected by the state will be punished by criminal law.