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Why do snakeheads have python stripes and why can they move after death?

Gustavo 'Gus' Fring
2020-12-22 17:01:02
The black and white patterns on the body of snakehead fish are very similar to python patterns, but this does not mean that snakehead fish has a close relationship with pythons, but only a kind of fish patterns. The python is a reptile, the snakehead is a fish, and they are not too close. Fish have many patterns, one of which is the python pattern of snakehead. Some people think that they have similar patterns, so snakehead fish may have evolved from pythons, but this is wrong.
Why do snakeheads have python stripes and why can they move after death?

1. Why does snakehead have python patterns

? Snakehead is a common fish in China. Their appearance characteristics are more prominent, especially their color. There are many black and white patterns on their body surface, which are similar to python patterns. Because the snakehead's body shape is longer, it looks more like a snake from a distance, and even some people dare not touch the snakehead. In fact, although snakeheads have patterns similar to pythons on their bodies, they are not directly related to pythons. Fish have more patterns, and snakehead patterns are just one of them. Pythons are reptiles, snakeheads are fish, and the relationship is not particularly close.

However, some people believe that reptiles evolved from amphibians, and amphibians evolved from fish, so it is understandable that the pattern of pythons is somewhat similar to that of snakeheads. However, it can not be considered that snakehead and python are directly related, nor can it be considered that snakehead and python belong to the same class of animals.

2. Why can snakehead move

after death? It has been introduced above that snakehead is one of the common fish in our country. When some people observe snakehead fish, they find that they can move after they are dead. Actually this is a kind of more normal phenomenon, snakehead belongs to fish, it is vertebrate. Vertebrates basically have this feature, even after their brain has died, the body will take some time to die, not immediately stop activity as the brain stops activity. So when the snakehead's brain shuts down, its neural reflex arc causes the muscles to twitch as if they were still moving. In fact, not only snakehead, but also many other fish.

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