It is said that centipedes are natural enemies of snakes. Why?

This statement has no scientific basis. But when they meet, the centipede will take the initiative to attack the snake.

However, some snakes are poisoned by centipede medicine, but it does not mean that centipede is the natural enemy of snakes, and both of them die a lot.

Qu Dajun's "Guangdong Xinyu" is also recorded. He said, "a hundred feet of pole head, two ya" is called "worm", which can subdue snakes. Every time it enters the snake's belly, the snake can't get close. "Hipsters have worshipped snakes since ancient times. In the Qing Dynasty, there was a custom of worshipping snakes all over Chaoshan, especially in Chaozhou City, where there was a "Seiryuji" dedicated to green snakes, and the incense was very prosperous.

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Hunting and survival are the survival skills of animals in nature, and often one side wins and the other side fails. However, some researchers found a natural wonder that destroyed each other on an island in southern Europe. A poisonous snake fights with a centipede of the same size. The snake swallowed the centipede, but the centipede escaped from the snake, and finally the two poisons died together.

A scientific team from Macedonia visited Dummy Grad Island and was surprised to find it when passing through the settlement of Agkistrodon acutus on the island. There is actually a huge centipede in the body of an adder on the ground. The snake broke into two parts, and the centipede's head stuck out at the fracture. The researchers were shocked by these horrible and disgusting pictures.

They extracted the centipede's body from the viper, and found that the centipede was almost as big as the viper, and the viper's internal organs were almost hollowed out. After the autopsy, the researchers thought that the poisonous snake was fighting with the centipede, trying to swallow the other person's stomach and try to digest it slowly, but the centipede struggled to survive, biting the snake's internal organs and even biting the snake's stomach to get out. The centipede almost managed to escape, but it still couldn't resist the gastric acid corrosion of the snake. Finally, the snake and the centipede died together.

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The giant centipede was swallowed by a poisonous snake and died in its stomach-People's Network