The wound is 5-8 cm! Alligator gar jumps up and bites tourists at Paleozoic Museum, scaring girls into crying
During this time, the alligator gar became a "net celebrity", and alligator gar appeared in many places. The reason why everyone pays more attention to the crocodile gar is that the crocodile gar is an exotic species and is extremely ferocious. There are almost no natural enemies in the water, and one crocodile gar can eat up the fish in the entire lake. As a ferocious fish, sometimes alligator gar will attack people. No, there are tourists who are bitten by alligator gar in the ancient zoo. The alligator gar jumped to bite the tourist
The incident occurred at about 2:30 pm on September 11, 2022, when there was a A tourist was bitten by a crocodile gar in a fish tank while visiting the China Paleozoic Museum. The alligator gar is a prehistoric fish that has lived on the earth for more than 100 million years, and the China Paleontological Museum is a national-level natural science special museum under the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, Chinese Academy of Sciences. Alligator gars are housed in the museum. It is reported that this crocodile gar has been living in this ancient zoo as early as around 2013. It has lived in the fish tank of the zoo for many years. Its body length has grown from the original fifty or sixty centimeters to seven or eight now. Ten centimeters. Safety was considered when purchasing the fish tank, so a fully enclosed fish tank was selected, and the height of the fish tank reached 1.57 meters. The staff would only open the tank cover when feeding, so it did not appear during this period. had similar things. Witness Ms. Huang said that she was talking with her daughter about the situation of the alligator gar next to the fish tank. A tourist opened the lid of the fish tank, and then a female tourist in light purple clothes wanted to cover the fish tank. As a result, when the female tourist just reached out to the top of the fish tank, the alligator gar suddenly jumped up and bit her hand. The wound was 5-8 cm, and the girl at the scene cried. Tourists left on the spot. For safety reasons, the China Paleozoic Museum will add some relevant reminders next to the alligator gar's fish tank in the future, and will also take reinforcement methods such as locking to ensure safety. Alligator gar bites boy
This isn't the first time someone has been bitten by an alligator gar. There was an alligator gar in a landscape pool in a community in Taizhou. At that time, a little boy was bitten by it while playing by the pool. On the second day, the community property staff caught the alligator gar in the water. This is a crocodile gar with a length of about 70 centimeters, and its weight has exceeded 10 pounds. The landscape pool of the community is a closed water area. In theory, the crocodile gar will not swim from other waters by itself, so some people think that the crocodile gar The gar appeared in the pool, maybe some people raised it and released it into this landscape pool, and this happened to bite the little boy's 3 fingers. Fortunately, the little boy was fine. The alligator gar
The alligator gar has lived on Earth for more than 100 million years. In the extinction event, even the dinosaurs were extinct, but the alligator gar was able to carry it over, which is enough to show that the alligator gar's ability to survive and adapt is extremely strong. Although the adaptability is extremely strong, the alligator gar was not originally distributed all over the world, but was native to North America, and was later introduced to China. The crocodile gar is a giant freshwater carnivorous fish. Under normal circumstances, the body length of the crocodile gar is between 1-2 meters. The largest crocodile gar is said to grow to about 3 meters. The largest of the eels, and one of the largest freshwater fish in North America. When it comes to the adaptability and survivability of the alligator gar, we have to talk about its very special respiratory system. In addition to breathing through gills, they have also evolved thick, spongy and high blood vessels that can assist in breathing air like lungs. Swollen swim bladder. Even in extreme hypoxia, alligator gars can use their swim bladders to obtain oxygen. So, in those oxygen-deprived bodies of water, most other fish would probably suffocate, but the alligator gar would survive, even if caught on the ground for a while. It is estimated that this powerful respiratory system allowed them to survive the mass extinction event 65 million years ago. Because the alligator gar has a protruding snout like a crocodile, and its mouth is full of extremely sharp teeth, it looks a bit like a crocodile's mouth, and can easily eat other fish in the water. Although alligator gars have sharp teeth, they have no chewing ability, so when eating, they generally use the movement of the head and jaw bones to generate strong suction to swallow the prey. It can be said that alligator gars are almost not picky eaters. As long as they are living things in the water, they will eat them, which is one of the reasons why they can survive for such a long time. In addition, the crocodile gar is covered with super-hard enamel scales that are as hard as teeth, which is harder than ordinary steel, so when there are many ferocious carnivores, the crocodile gar can basically deal with it. There are few natural enemies. At present, in the waters of our country, alligator gar basically has no natural enemies, so once they are released into the water, they will eat up other living things in the water.