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Eastern massasauga

Sistrurus catenatus
Ko fii innde ndee: "Massasauga" comes from the Ojibwe language and probably means "great river-mouth", likely describing the grasslands around river deltas.1
No sokli doktoroSeeɗa tun no wara, kono ŋatgol no haani doktoro.
Ɓoɗɗi wulloowi ŊatgolNo ñaama: Teewu
Musiiba e yimɓe: Musiiba mawɗoŊatgol no haani doktoro. Maayde no famɗi sanne.

The eastern massasauga is a small rattlesnake that lives in eastern North America, mainly around the Great Lakes. It is the only venomous snake in Ontario, Canada. It is shy and keeps away from people, but it is a protected species because its numbers have fallen sharply.1

No hoɗi nder
Southern Ontario, Canada, and eastern parts of the Midwestern United States, including the Great Lakes region1
Amerik Nord
Hello arano
It is most often found near wetlands such as swamps, marshes, bogs, fens, wet meadows and floodplains. It may also live in meadows, prairies and coniferous forests, and often uses crayfish burrows. In summer it may move to drier habitats.1
Juutugol
60 cm haa 75 cm (2 ft haa 2,5 ft)1
Yaawugol ɓurngol toowugol
wona 3,4 km/h (2,1 mph)
E leydi yoornde, miijo tun
Ko honɗun ngal ñaamata?
It eats small vertebrates, mainly rodents such as voles, white-footed mice, jumping mice and shrews. Juveniles mostly eat reptiles, usually lizards in western populations and snakes in eastern ones. Frogs are also an important food in some northern and eastern populations.1
Goonga!Natal Eastern massasauga
Eastern massasauga. Natal: Willem Span. CC BY 4.0, iNaturalist.

Hono anndirtee ngal

  • Ground colour is grey or tan.1
  • A row of large, rounded brown or black blotches runs down the centre of the back.1
  • Three smaller rows of alternating spots run down each side.1
  • Solid black individuals also occur.1
  • Like all rattlesnakes, it has heat-sensing pits on each side of its head, between the eye and the nostril.1

Doole tooke ŋatgol

Ŋatgol

Tooke no yaltira ñiiƴe mum tuma ngal ŋatata.

Ko honɗun tooke mum waɗata (ŋatgol walla jukkugol)?

Its venom is cytotoxic, which means it destroys tissue. It also contains digestive enzymes that disrupt blood flow and stop blood from clotting. In its prey, these effects cause severe internal bleeding.1

Hono musiiba mum heewiri e yimɓe?

Musiiba e yimɓe: Musiiba mawɗoŊatgol no haani doktoro. Maayde no famɗi sanne.

The snake is shy and avoids humans when it can. Most bites in Ontario happened after people handled it or accidentally stepped on it. Only two deaths from its bites have been recorded in Ontario, and in both cases the victims did not receive proper treatment.1

Ko honɗun ngal waɗata si ngal hulii?

It is shy and tends to withdraw from people rather than confront them.1

Si no ŋata

  • Haɗu neɗɗo on dillagol, deeƴnu mo, jogo koyngal walla jungo ŋataaɗo on e toownde ɓernde, ittu baagiiji e ko tiiɗi fow, yahra mo lopitaan law.

Adii fow noddu nimero ballal (112, 000, 911). Ɗum ko anndinal ballal adiingal, wanaa saaraangal doktoro. Ko adii nder ballal adiingal

Reen hoore maa

  • Wota a meem, wota a nanngu, wota a jalnu kullal ladde haa abada, hay si ko tokooso, hay si no yi'ee no ɗaanii walla maayii.
  • Accu ngal nokku. Si a fotti e ngal, deeƴu, ruttu ɓaawo seeɗa seeɗa, accu ngal yaha laawol mum.
  • Si gooto e majji ŋatii ma: deeƴu, wota a dillu, noddu nimero ballal (112, 000, 911) walla yahu lopitaan law. Jogo e hakkille no ngal nanndi, natal no walla.

Ngal faalaaka gaañugol ma. Ngal no huutora tooke mum ngam nanngugol ñaamdu walla reenugol hoore mum, ngal ɓuri yiɗugol suuɗaade. Ko ɓeydi fii reenugol hoore maa

Hono mawniri?

Hono juutiri?

Eastern massasauga juuti wona 75 cm (2,5 ft)Ullundu suudu wona 50 cm (1,6 ft)Rawaandu wona 1 m (3,3 ft)
juuti no banaanaaji 4 jokkondirɗino waawi taccugol meeteruuji 100 nder segonde 110 (neɗɗo ɓurɗo yaawugol sokli 9,6)

Hono Eastern massasauga mawniri, si fooɗondiraama e AN?

Ko limoore tun nder navigateur maa. Alaa ko danndetee walla ko neldetee ka nokku woo.

Hono yaawiri?

moƴƴi anndugol

Humpito

1

It is a pit viper, a family that includes all rattlesnakes, and it is the only venomous snake in Ontario.1

2

Mothers and newborns stay together for a few days, until the young shed their skin for the first time.1

3

Females often do not breed every year, usually having a two-year breeding cycle.1

4

Its populations have declined so much that it has disappeared from many of its former areas, and now survives mainly in small, isolated groups.1

Ngam ganduɓe tooke

Innde ganndal
Sistrurus catenatus
Fedde
Ɓoɗɗi wulloowi
Ɓesngu
Viperidae2
Ordre
Squamata
Leyɗe mawɗe
Amerik Nord
Ɓiɓɓe tokosɓe
It gives birth to live young (it is ovoviviparous), usually in August or September. Litters of 5 to 14 have been reported in Illinois and 6 to 19 in Wisconsin, and the newborns are 18.8 to 24.4 cm long from snout to vent.1
Hono ngal woniri nder ladde
Threatened in Canada under federal and Ontario law; listed as endangered in several US states; IUCN Red List: least concern (2007, with a note that the assessment needs updating)1
Musiiba e yimɓe
3 / 5: Musiiba mawɗo3

Ɗo humpitooji ɗin iwri

  1. Eastern massasauga (Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0))
  2. Sistrurus catenatus (iNaturalist): inɗe e ŋoordingol (classification).
  3. Venom Wiki: tolno musiiba, mawnugol aadaajo e miijo yaawugol ko amen. Ndaar no min ƴeewtirta ɗum: Hono min tolnirta musiiba.

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