Is the five-step snake protecting animals?

The five-step snake is known as Agkistrodon acutus, with a total length of 120 to 150 centimeters, with a large head of more than 200 centimeters and a triangular head, which can be clearly distinguished from the neck. It lives in mountainous or hilly areas at an altitude of 100 to 1400 meters above sea level and is widely distributed in China. Wuyi Mountain and the mountain area of southern Anhui have the most reserves. Let's take a look at whether the five-step snake is a protected animal.

Is the five-step snake protecting animals?

The five-step snake is a protective animal. The five-step snake is a national second-class endangered protected animal and a second-class protected animal in Anhui Province. According to the sampling survey on the number of Agkistrodon acutus purchased by various provinces and key producing areas over the years, there are still 10 million wild Agkistrodon acutus in China and about 10 000 in artificial breeding in snake gardens.

What are the nicknames for the five-step snake?

There are many different names of five-step snake in different places, and the common nicknames are five-step inverted snake, rock head spot, white flower snake (Hunan, Jiangxi, Zhejiang), Qi snake (medicinal material name). Jiangxi, Anhui, Hunan, Zhejiang), Wubu Snake (Zhejiang), Wubu Snake (Anhui, Jiangxi), Baibu Snake (Guangxi, Hunan, Jiangxi, Taiwan), Wubao Snake, Jiao (Chongqing), turn over Flower (Hunan, Jiangxi), Checkerboard Snake, Checkerboard Snake, Pan Snake, Saffron Snake (Northern Fujian), Snake with warped nose (Hunan, Jiangxi, Zhejiang), Plough head Snake, three days and two days Disease (Hunan, Jiangxi), nose Snake (Leishan, Guizhou), The plough maker (Xingyi, Guizhou), the silk snake (Zhejiang), the deaf woman snake (Guangxi), the blind snake (Jiangxi), the lazy snake (Jiangxi) and so on.

What are the habits of the five-step snake?

1. Environment: Baibu snake mainly lives in evergreen and deciduous mixed forests at an altitude of 400 to 700 meters above sea level. It likes to move around the ditches of Shanwu in summer. The requirements for habitat conditions are cool, ventilated, trees and water, as well as in tea gardens, farmland and firewood piles. They can climb trees and enter human rooms. In winter, they often spend the winter in natural holes formed by tree roots or in old rat holes.

2. Activity: the annual activity cycle of Baibu Snake is about 9 months from the Waking of Insects to heavy snow. The main factors affecting the activity are temperature, humidity and food. When the air temperature is 20-30 ℃, the activity is the most frequent. When the air temperature is as high as 35-38 ℃, the activity is concentrated in many directions. It is sensitive to use pine handle lighting at night and has reaction to torch attack. When using flashlight, there is almost no obvious trend of temperature.

3. Food: the hundred-step snake found social rats, canine foot rats, yellow weasels and thorn-breasted frogs by gastric section, and the distribution in the mountain dock was related to the distribution and number of thorn-breasted frogs. Yellow-breasted rats were also found by gastric section, indicating that Agkistrodon acutus entered the human room, and bird feathers were identified as green woodpeckers, feeding frogs and mice in snake ponds, and young snakes were seen catching Orthoptera insects as food.

4. Reproduction: the secretion of the stinky gland at the base of the tail of the female snake has a special smell, which can attract the male snake, there is a mating phenomenon before mating, the eggs are intertwined with each other during mating, the eggs are mostly laid in the natural cave, and the tunnel is shallow, short and dry. The entrance of the cave seen in a terrace is 10 centimeters, and the tunnel is only 25 centimeters. The number of eggs varies, the young female snake lays eggs early but the number is small, the old female snake lays eggs late but the number is large, generally 12-18 eggs, egg white, oblong, egg shell soft, touch like paper, egg weight 16-18 grams, the size is 42-45 × 25-30 mm. Most of the eggs lay in a circle and stick together. they usually give birth in 1-3 days, hatch young snakes in about 24 days, grow 19 cm long when they come out of the shell, begin the first peeling 10 days later, and peel for the second time 49 days later.

5. Hibernation: the hibernation period is about 3 months from heavy snow to the following year, and the hibernating cave is deep. Snakes often live together, and sometimes live in the same hole with Agkistrodon halys. When the air temperature is 8 ℃, the snake body surface temperature is equal to the snake body surface temperature. When the temperature is higher than 8 ℃, the snake body surface temperature is always 1 ℃ lower than the air temperature. When the temperature is lower than 8 ℃, the snake body surface temperature is slightly higher than 1 ℃. When the snake body surface temperature is above 11 ℃, it can bite people. In the young snakes raised in captivity, the pupil did not move when the temperature was lower than 17 ℃, and the mouth was opened and bit when touched by tweezers at 12 ℃.