SSSSStroke of luck! Chinese scientists breed one of the planet's rarest snakes
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SOT, Ding Li, Associate Research Fellow (Mandarin): "In the past this snake was found very little, so there has been little research on this kind of snake, the biological data of the understanding of it is very small, but in recent years, we have found the snake individual, probably from the beginning of 2013, 2014, we started to pay attention to this kind of snake."
SOT, Ding Li, Associate Research Fellow (Mandarin): "In the future, we will investigate the snake's distribution, the exact number and size of the snake, and study the endangered mechanism of the snake."
Chinese researchers at Chengdu Institute of biology have managed to breed what they call one of the rarest snakes on the planet, footage from Thursday shows.
The snake, shown in its container, lives in conditions finely tuned by Chinese scientists. According to researchers, the horizontal spot Jin snake is one of the rarest species of snakes, and that seeing a living one is nothing less of a stroke of luck.
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