This is a snake meerkkat, also known as the red-cheeked meerkat, as the name suggests, was born as a natural enemy of poisonous snakes.

Its claws are sharp, its incisors are well-developed, it is alert and flexible, its body hair is as bright as if it has been coated with a layer of glaze, and the two cheeks on its face are as red as a burning fire. This snake meerkat also has a name, called the mongoose.

There are many types of meerkats, including crab-eating meerkats, red-cheeked meerkats, short-tailed meerkats, ring-necked meerkats, Javan meerkats, Ho's mongooses, Spanish mongooses, etc., not all of which can fight snakes. In our country, only the red-cheeked mongoose has the ability to bite and kill cobras.

This is a meerkat with a story. His story has also been retold by many people, and each time it is told, it is equally evocative.

It is said that a zoo somewhere in Yunnan Province holds a meerkat cobra show every Sunday in order to generate income. In a tent theater with a capacity of more than 300 people, a four-square-meter gladiatorial arena was carved out of the central clearing, covered by a huge glass cover, and a two-meter-long cobra with a thick bowl mouth was placed first, and then a meerkat with a much smaller body than a cobra, and under the light of the spotlight, the meerkat and the cobra fought each other. The cobra stared at the glass bead-like eyes, spitting out the blood-red forked snake core and striking like lightning, and the meerkat deftly dodged left and right, avoiding the sharp edge of the fangs, and coldly bit at the snake's deadly seven inches. This meerkat has such a talent for acting, and it can be said that it is rare to be able to fight out the artistic taste and stage effect in the process of fighting snakes.

But not all red-cheeked mongooses are eligible to perform snake fights. Some mongooses look obscene and do not please the audience; some meerkat looks trembling under the fangs of the cobra, although they can kill the snake in the end, but they lack a heroic spirit that is not afraid of danger; some mongooses bite the snake's head as soon as they come up, and the audience can only see two things entangled together and plop and roll, and after a while the cobra becomes a rotten grass rope, the process is too simple to meet the special psychological needs of the audience; some meerkat reactions are not flexible enough, their skills are not vigorous enough, and they have not been able to put the cobra to death after fighting for a long time, and the two sides are exhausted, and they each huddle at one end of the gladiatorial arena, wheezing and wheezing, and no longer move for a long time, causing the audience to applaud and applaud。

Anyone who has seen the meerkat fighting a cobra will be overwhelmed by its superb snake fighting skills. It was not sent to the gladiatorial arena in an iron cage like other meerkats, but was carried into the tent theater by a young lady in a green dress and red pants.

Once inside the glass cover, it will lie on the glass wall in a stupid manner, and the cobra will arch its neck and sneak up from behind, and the blood-red snake core will spew out, and it will be motionless as it looks like it is about to bite its neck. The audience could see it clearly outside, their hearts were in their throats, the ladies and ladies were pale, their palms were sweaty, they were so nervous that they were about to faint, and some of them even screamed. The cobra's flat neck was slightly arched, and its triangular head shot like an arrow, and then it suddenly kicked its front paws on the glass wall, twisted its waist, and with a rebound force, it swooped out, rolled around, and appeared behind the cobra.

And the cobra because of poor eyesight, can't see the existence of the glass cover, bang, the head hit the glass hard, the snake's face is twisted, a fierce, stunned and painful look, slowly sliding down the glass wall, quite funny, causing the audience to laugh.

In the fight that followed, it behaved even more extraordinary. It seems to know what the audience needs, and it will not bite the head of the snake all at once, and even if there is such an opportunity, it will not use it. It always makes the cobra angry first, waiting for an opportunity to grab a bite on the snake body or snake tail, the snake oozes red and condensed blood, jumps wildly, and dances dazzlingly in the glass cover, while it is like a rope skipping master, jumping flexibly, and will never let the long cobra be entangled. It calmly dissected the cobra one bite at a time with its sharp incisors like a scalpel, tore off the silk snake meat and chewed it with relish, and performed an unprecedented live eating cobra, which was really bold and brilliant. Twenty minutes later, the hapless cobra was torn to pieces, turned into a bloody snake, and collapsed on the ground dying, and then it calmly walked over, stretched out its mouth like a gentleman, and bit the pair of white and black-hearted spectacle markings on the back of the snake's neck.

In the past two years, it has performed hundreds of sold-out performances, and has become a shining star of the zoo.

Yunnan is mountainous, the climate is warm and humid, and there are endless cobras. The zoo also opened a snake restaurant at the entrance of the park, and the dead cobras were immediately sent over to cook, and there was no waste at all. The meerkat is really a cash cow and a cornucopia for the zoo. Everyone was very kind to it, and in order to commend its merits and expand publicity, they also specially asked someone to make such a stone sculpture for it: a cobra wrapped around it, and it bit the snake's head tightly. The stone carving is named the meerkat fighting the snake. Less than a month after the stone carving was completed, suddenly one day, it was bitten to death by a cobra.

The death of the mongoose, the death of an over-inflated vanity. Meerkat is indeed the natural enemy of snakes, and under normal circumstances, red-cheeked mongooses can indeed win in a confrontation with a cobra. But we should never forget that although the meerkat has innate immunity to snake venom, it cannot be ignored that every battle is a life-and-death struggle and must not be taken lightly.

Other ordinary red-cheeked meerkats do not have the excellent snake fighting skills of the meerkat in comparison, but there is one thing that is stronger than the meerkat is that it is highly vigilant in front of the cobra, engrossed, and does not dare to relax or miss the slightest. They either bite the snake's head at the first opportunity and never let go, or they jump and hide vigorously, and do not attack easily when the cobra is exhausted, they never bite the inconsequential snake's tail, and they do not take unnecessary risks; although they do not get the applause of the audience, do not enjoy the treatment of celebrities, and do not wear the laurel crown of the meerkat at the same time, they also rule out the possibility of being bitten to death by a poisonous snake. Meerkat does have extremely high snake fighting skills, and it is only natural that it will win flowers and honors.

Generally speaking, honor is a manifestation of value, which can make people more confident and sprint towards higher life goals. However, honor often stimulates a kind of vanity, especially in the midst of praise, which can be fluttering and forgetting how many pounds and taels you have. It's easy to get intoxicated in front of honor, and it's easy to get carried away. Behind success often lies the danger of destruction. The meerkat was carried away by the barrage of victories and the applause, forgetting the grim reality that a cobra bite could kill you. It has earned its reputation by amusing the cobra, prolonging the fight, and creating thrilling effects, and in order to maintain its honor, in order to get more flowers and applause, it has gone further and further on the perilous and risky road, to the point of lying on the glass wall and pretending to be stupid and eating snake meat alive.

These technical things are useless tricks for meerkats. When something is referred to as a god, it means that it has gone to the extreme, and then it is going downhill. What people demand from God is omnipotence and transcendence, when in fact no one power can be infinite. There are no meerkats in the world that can be bitten by snakes, so there can be no meerkats in the true sense of the word. When it is elevated to the status of a god, it can no longer deal with cobras like other common meerkats, and it can only perform the more thrilling and unrealistic art of snake fighting in order to match its own godhood. It transcends the limits of its capabilities, and in this sense, when people praise it as a mongoose, it actually pushes it to death.

The Heavenly Master Laifu happened to pass by here, and after learning about this, he sighed and was speechless for a long time. Then he spent a lot of money to buy the corpse of the mongoose and brought it back to life with great mana. But after this understanding of life and death, this meerkat realized the spell and was reborn with the help of the Heavenly Master.

Today, the fight to the death is staged again.