Following Vietnam By Bike Staff to find out the correct news of the Longest Snake In An Giang Province Mekong Delta, Vietnam.
Over the past few days, people in Bay Nui talked about a group of workers and engineers constructing solar power projects at the foot of Cam Mountain (An Hao commune, Tinh Bien district, An Giang province) to catch a solid drive. rattan tiger, of which 2 children weigh up to 60kg. Many people question this species as a rare animal, so that the capture unit can be kept in captivity or released to the wild?
Forbidden Mountain is covered by windy forest canopy, thus also hides in many mysterious stories, especially about giant giant cobra. Colonel - Hero of the People's Armed Forces Le Thanh Cu (self Hai Cu, 85 years old, Tri Ton district) said: “In the past, this area was very solid, it is very rare now.
In the past, the night buses would see a big snake lying across the black road like a fallen tree. Now caught, they must be kept in a careful manner, because just the first step outside is seen as a cage. This type of snake is extremely poisonous, biting is dead and very picky to eat so few people raise it. ”
Mr. Hai Cu said, in 1977, one of his soldiers named An - former Great Captain of the 512th Company - while going to the hill of the Gods, he swept the army and suddenly encountered a cloud of cobra of a flat size, heavy 20kg.
“I think it must be the son of the great cloud of a cobra in the cave. An shot and killed this snake and went home still panicked, because when he saw An, he had his neck raised and raised his head, and he saw that his tongue was slaughtered. Thanks to An firm gunmen shot first hit, lower it ", Mr. Cu said.
Previously, when he was alive, the "Taoist" Ba Luoi (in An Hao commune) said that the area where he lived is still very much. They went like the wind and decided to eat anyone, it was difficult for him to escape.
Once, while Uncle Ba walked from the foot to the top of the Cam mountain, he was suddenly nearly ten meters long by a tiger snake, weighed hundreds of signs from the back, his head reached high and kept on looking very hard. When he crawled to a dozen meters away, he suddenly opened his mouth and pecked down on his head. Specifically, he quickly dodged, just avoiding the shot and using his shoulder to hang on his back and neck solid.
“I launched three hits to hit his head in a row and the last time the broken blow was doubled. I had just fallen to the ground in a ready position to continue the battle to see the snake fall to the ground, head still but the body was still struggling. I have to pay 3 more blows to the head, he will just lie still and die ", he said.
After lowering the snake, Uncle Ba asked people to go to the forest to cut the meat to eat, but only more than a dozen people came because most were afraid of snakes ... revenge! The thought of human life only met a giant snake once, doubting the Ba Luoi tool also encountered this species again.
It was around 1960, the place in which there was a herd of monkeys piled up hundreds of corns. One day, the clouded tiger snake came to hunt monkey, got eaten by some snakes, so the monkeys dragged away, then Ba's dogs came into the "big" snake.
That time, Ba Luoi tooled to go to the forest to pick up drugs when the big cloud cobra appeared to attack. When he came forward, he dodged to the side and used his sword to sever the snake's head. "Although not as big as my first child, but seeing him lying down on his feet was also chilling," when Ba alive, Ba Luoi once told us.
"Terrible" snake at the foot of the mountain
Mr. Pham Bao Tran - Deputy Director of Sao Mai Group's Solar Power Project - said that two weeks ago, during the construction of the construction at the foot of Cam Mountain, the group of workers suddenly discovered rattan cobra head in the cave. At that time, the driver drove away and took some of the sack tossed in, then the group of 3 workers came to arrest him.
“They grabbed two snakes with their hands: one hand held the head, the other held the tail, because the characteristics of this snake only caught the head and stroked the whole body, it would not move. This is a very poisonous rattan snake, weighing about 60kg, 6 - 7m / head long, ”Mr. Tran said.
At present, the mother and child cobra is being cared for by Sao Mai Group in Tuc Dup Hill (Tri Ton district) to serve visitors. According to our observations, on these two cobra snakes are cloudy, most of them are pale yellow, with intermittent white compartments. This is a species that has been dubbed "going to the wind", because of its long body, rising up and down its tail when moving.
Talking to reporters, Mr. Truong Vinh Thanh - Deputy General Director of Sao Mai Group - said: “The unit is making application for permission to keep in captivity for conservation purposes, so that people can visit, but If the authorities require the release, we must comply. However, we think it is better to keep it, because it is easy to be caught and made to go out naturally. ”
Mr. Banh Thanh Hung - Head of Forest Management, Protection and Nature Conservation Department of An Giang Forest Protection Department - said: "Tiger god or tiger cloud are both snakes and IB group (endangered forest animals, rare and precious, must be collected because the establishment is not eligible for captivity. In addition, the unit catches snakes also have not registered to raise, while these snakes catch outside the wild so it must be managed by Dong Tam Snake Farm (Tien Giang). ”
Collected & Translated By Thanh Ut.