Tuesday, August 26, 2014

Decapitated snake 20 minutes bites and kills Chinese cook

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When the Cook Chinese Peng Fan decapitated a serpent to prepare one of their specialties, snake soup cut, never thought the spell would turn against the magician and the snake still had a Word to say.

The "story" unbelievable snapped in the Chinese province of Guongdong and was told today by The New Zealand Herald: twenty minutes after the chef Peng Fan beheading the serpent â€" a naja siamensis â€", the head and bit the Cook jumped, hitting him fatally.

The phenomenon is strange but cannot be considered rare. "There's nothing special about this case," explained Treehugger herpetologist Wolfgang Wuster at the, University of life sciences in Bangor. "This may seem strange to us humans because, like other mammals, have a high metabolic rate and we need a constant supply of blood and oxygen to the brain. If it is stopped for mere seconds, we die, "he explained.

In the case of snakes and other reptiles, the scenario is different. "Snakes and reptiles have a much slower metabolic rate, including in the brain, and can stay alive and functional long after the blood supply being cut".

According to Wuster, the snakes can remain active for up to an hour after their head or other part of the body being cut. This period of time is related to the temperatures and the part of the body from which the head was hacked off.

"If the poisonous glands, nerves and muscles used pair bite and raise the poison has not been damaged, then the head of the snake can bite, as a reflex, and probably many other senses of the serpent also [remain assets]," concluded Lee Fitzgerald, A&M University herpetologist, in Texas.

Foto: Rob Bixby / Creative Commons

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