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Boomslang

Dispholidus typus

Ne din ho asɛm: The name comes from Dutch and Afrikaans, meaning "tree snake": boom is "tree" and slang is "snake".1

Ɛtumi kumƐtumi kum wo sɛ wɔanhwɛ wo yareɛ a. Sɛ ɛka wo a, hwehwɛ mmoa ntɛm.

Awɔ a wɔn bɔre se wɔ akyi

KaƆdi: Nam

Asiane ma nnipa: Asiane kɛseɛ womƐtumi kum onipa a wɔnhwɛ no yareɛ.

The boomslang is a highly venomous tree snake from Sub-Saharan Africa. It spends most of its time in trees and bushes, though it also hunts and shelters on the ground. Its venom works slowly, so a bite can look harmless at first and still be life-threatening.1

Ɔte

Sub-Saharan Africa, from West Africa through Central and East Africa to much of Southern Africa1

Abibirem

Fie

It lives mainly in forests but also in karoo shrubs, savannahs, lowland forests and grasslands. It is an excellent climber and is mostly found in trees, but it often hunts or shelters on the ground and sometimes hides underground in harsh weather.1

Tenten

1 m kɔsi 1,8 m (3,3 ft kɔsi 6 ft)1

Mu duru

175 g kɔsi 510 g (6 oz kɔsi 1,1 lb)1

Ntɛm a ɛsen biara

bɛyɛ 6 km/h (3,7 mph)

Asaase so, susuo kɛkɛ

Ɛdi deɛn?

It eats chameleons, other arboreal lizards, frogs, and occasionally small mammals, birds, and eggs from nests. It swallows its prey whole and will also eat other snakes, including members of its own species.1

Boomslang mfonini — Boomslang. Mfonini: Miguel da Fonseca. CC0, Wikimedia Commons.

Sɛdeɛ wobɛhunu no

Adult males are light green with black or blue scale edges.1
Adult females are often brown.1
Very large eyes and a distinctive egg-shaped head.1
Average adults are 100 to 160 cm long, including the tail.1
Hatchlings: males are grey with blue speckles, females are pale brown.1

Bɔre ahoɔden

Bɔre fi ne se mu ba bere a ɔka.

Ne bɔre yɛ dɛn?

Its venom is mainly a haemotoxin, a type of venom that disrupts blood clotting. Many tiny clots form in the blood, causing bleeding in tissues such as muscle and the brain, while the small blood vessels become clogged. Symptoms include headache, nausea, sleepiness and confusion, and can lead to cardiac arrest and unconsciousness. Because the venom is slow-acting, symptoms may not appear until many hours after a bite.1

Ne asiane ma nnipa te sɛn?

Asiane ma nnipa: Asiane kɛseɛ womƐtumi kum onipa a wɔnhwɛ no yareɛ.

Bites can be fatal. Of eight serious envenomations reported between 1919 and 1962, two were lethal. In 1957, a herpetologist died after being bitten by a juvenile. Hatchlings about 45 cm long are already dangerously venomous. Delayed symptoms can lead victims to wrongly believe a bite was a harmless dry bite.1

Asɛmpa: dɔkotafoɔ wɔ aduro (antivenom) anaa ayaresa ma yei.1

Ɛyɛ dɛn bere a ehu aka no?

It is timid and usually bites only when people try to handle, catch, chase or kill it. When cornered, it inflates its neck and takes an S-shaped striking pose.1

Sɛ ɛka a

Antivenom is available and treatment is needed after a bite. Complete blood transfusions may also be required, especially if more than 24 to 48 hours pass without antivenom. Do not assume a bite is harmless just because no symptoms have appeared.1
Hohoro baabi a ɛkaa no, ma onipa no bo nnwo na hwehwɛ dɔkota mmoa. Awɔ bi (te sɛ boomslang) betumi akum nnɔnhwerew pii akyi.

Di kan frɛ wo ahohiahia nɔma (112, 000, 911). Yei yɛ mmoa a ɛdi kan ho akwankyerɛ, ɛnyɛ dɔkota afotuo. Mmoa a ɛdi kan ho nsɛm titiriw

Hwɛ wo ho so

Mfa wo nsa nka wiram aboa biara, nkyere no na mfa no nni agorɔ, sɛ ɔyɛ ketewa mpo, na sɛ ɛte sɛ ɔrededa anaa wawu mpo a.
Ma no kwan. Sɛ wohyia baako a, ma wo bo nnwo, san w'akyi brɛoo na ma ɔnkɔ ne kwan.
Sɛ baako ka wo a: ma wo bo nnwo, tena dinn, frɛ wo ahohiahia nɔma (112, 000, 911) anaa kɔ ayaresabea ntɛm. Kae sɛdeɛ na ɛte, mfonini bɛboa.

Ɛnhwehwɛ wo sɛ ɛbɛpira wo. Ɛde ne bɔre kyere aduane anaa ɛbɔ ne ho ban, na ɛpɛ sɛ ɛhinta sene biribiara. Nsɛm pii fa ahobammɔ ho

Wiase mu baabi bɛn?

Abibirem Asia Yuropu Amerika Atifi Amerika Anaafoɔ Australia ne Oceania

Ne kɛseɛ te sɛn?

Ne tenten te sɛn?

Ne mu duru te sɛn?

ne mu duru te sɛ kwadu 4

ne tenten te sɛ fie agyinamoa 4 a wɔde hwene ne dua to ntoatoasoɔ mune tenten te sɛ kwadu 10 a wɔde to ntoatoasoɔ muɛbɛtumi atu mita 100 wɔ anibu 60 mu (onipa a ɔwɔ ntɛm sen biara hia 9.6)

Boomslang kɛseɛ te sɛn sɛ wode toto WO ho a?

Akontabuo kɛkɛ wɔ wo browser mu. Wɔnkora hwee, na wɔmfa hwee nkɔ baabiara.

Ne ntɛm te sɛn?

Onipa a ɔrenante bɛyɛ 5 km/h (3,1 mph)

Boomslang bɛyɛ 6 km/h (3,7 mph)

Abofra a ɔte sakre so bɛyɛ 12 km/h (7,5 mph)

ɛho hia sɛ wohunu

Nsɛm

An adult has only 1.6 to 8 mg of venom, but it is thought that 2 to 3 mg could be enough to kill a healthy adult human.1

It can open its jaws up to 170 degrees when biting.1

Its head is distinctly egg-shaped, and its eyes are exceptionally large.1

It often moves its head from side to side to get a better view of objects directly in front of it.1

When it is pursued by something too large to eat, it escapes by moving from branch to branch.1

Atosɛm sɛefoɔ

Atosɛm: Rear-fanged snakes cannot produce a lethal bite.

Nokorɛ: For a long time many herpetologists believed this, but boomslang bites have caused deaths.1

Ma bɔre ho animdefoɔ

Nyansahu din: Dispholidus typus
Kuo: Awɔ a wɔn bɔre se wɔ akyi
Abusua: Colubridae2
Nhyehyɛeɛ (Order): Squamata
Asaase akɛseɛ: Abibirem
Mmofra nketewa: It lays eggs, on average 8 to 14 (up to 27 have been observed), in a hollow tree trunk or rotting log. The eggs take about 3 months to hatch.1
Asiane ma nnipa: 4 / 5: Asiane kɛseɛ wom3

Baabi a nsɛm no fi

Boomslang (Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0))
Dispholidus typus (iNaturalist): din ne nkyekyɛmu.
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