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This is a unique snake in China. Dingli revealed that some climbers and poachers paid a high price for the snake and searched in the wild for many years, but found nothing.
Three years ago, after squatting for several days and nights, he finally found the small head protruding from the snake cave, capturing the male and female snakes.
He raised the snake carefully for three years. Recently, the research team led by him and the cooperators of Xihua Normal University and Sichuan Academy of forestry finally overcome the problem of breeding the snake. The first batch of eggs was successfully hatched.
It has beautiful patterns, mild temperament and no poison. It is also known as elegant female snake, horizontal jade snake and horizontal jade snake.
The first batch of snake eggs hatched successfully.
From the picture, the dark green body surface of the snake is dotted with black pearl necklace like stripes. Ding Li said that in the Latin scientific name of the snake, it means "pearl chain".
Ninety eight years ago, in 1929, Stejneger. L, an American scholar, first discovered the snake in Ya'an, Sichuan Province, China. He captured a male snake and took its specimen to the United States. Since then, for decades, the snake has not been found again, so it is even suspected that it exists.
Dingley said, not to mention its individual, even its photos and images, are very precious.
In 1980, 1987 and 1988, the snake was collected three times and identified as an independent species. However, due to the small number of individuals found in the field, this independent species has been controversial.
In 2017, Dingli et al. Published a paper based on genome information and morphological characteristics, and determined that the genetic relationship between the two snakes was the closest, and that they were different species.
According to Dingli, in the wild, snakes usually take three years to mature. The adult snake is about 1 meter long and its thumb is thick and thin.
After three years of breeding, Dingli finally got to know their habits. He lay down most of the time every day, came out in the early morning to forage for a short time, mainly devouring young rats, which was helpful to control the damage of plateau rats.