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Chapter 597 - 597 390 Overinterpretation_1
Chapter 597 - 597 390 Overinterpretation_1
?Chapter 597: Chapter 390 Overinterpretation_1 Chapter 597: Chapter 390 Overinterpretation_1 After a rest, the research team continued their busy work.
Feng Yi resumed his search for snakes, but within close range, no snakes were found—only snake sloughs.
Inside the wetland reserve, there were also some old cement roads that had been constructed long ago. The roads were not wide and perhaps due to the passage of time, or for other reasons, there were some holes on the sides of the road.
It was under the road that Feng Yi discovered the snake slough.
Someone from the research team came over and looked at the snake slough that Feng Yi had displayed:
“What kind of snake shed this skin?”
“King cobra,” Feng Yi said.
“The integrity is very high, it must be from a young snake.” The person with the camera took photos of the snake slough, as he was responsible for photographing during the research process.
“Yes, a very healthy, very energetic young king cobra,” Feng Yi said.
Even if there was only a snake slough, it still had to be recorded, and could be placed into a sample bag to be taken back as a wild specimen for further analysis by professionals.
The person took a few pictures and asked Feng Yi, “Are there banded kraits around here? I mean, king ratsnakes.”
“Banded krait” referred to different species in different places, so the person clarified that he was talking about king ratsnakes, not any other types.
As he had been along the way, Feng Yi had pretended to look around certain areas. Hearing this question, he didn’t put on an extra act and while organizing the snake slough, he replied, “There shouldn’t be any nearby.”
The person nodded, “Right, especially with king cobras around. In my hometown, we have both king cobras and banded kraits. The older generation says that back in the day, there were no restrictions on catching snakes. There were many snakes in the mountains, and banded kraits were even used as a source of meat. During certain months, a villager could catch dozens to hundreds of pounds on a mountain trip, either to sell or to eat themselves. But later, the villagers noticed that after catching all the banded kraits on the mountains, the number of king cobras started to grow.”
“The elders still living in the village condemn those actions, blaming the people for catching all the banded kraits which allowed the king cobras to take over that place,” he continued.
The person who had been taking pictures, while manipulating the snake slough, reminisced about the past:
“When I was a child and listened to the stories from the old people in the village, it was the first time I deeply felt nature’s ‘balance’. When a species disappears from the local food chain, another fills its place, which can have a completely different impact on people’s lives.”
Those king cobras were generally aggressive and highly venomous and could grow very large—some individuals would even chase humans!
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