A legendary Chinese cryptid known as [//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ Zhenniao] (鴆鳥), they are poisonous birds said to have existed in the mountainous regions of southern China. It gained its notoriety of being poisonous from eating venomous viper heads. A famous Chinese idiom "quenching by drinking Zhen" (飲鴆止渴) references the cryptid to express "resorting to reckless/inconsiderate action for solving imminent problem."