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Large-scaled pit viper

Craspedocephalus macrolepis
No sokli doktoroSeeɗa tun no wara, kono ŋatgol no haani doktoro.
Wipeeri ngaska ŊatgolNo ñaama: Teewu
Musiiba e yimɓe: Musiiba mawɗoŊatgol no haani doktoro. Maayde no famɗi sanne.

The large-scaled pit viper is a venomous snake that lives only in the southern Western Ghats mountains of South India. It is a bright green tree-dweller that hunts at night from high, cool forest. Tea pickers meet it often, which is why it matters to people who work on those plantations.1

No hoɗi nder
Mountains of the southern Western Ghats, Kerala and Tamil Nadu states, South India1
Aazi
Hello arano
It is a slow-moving, nocturnal snake that prefers rainforest. It is also found in tea, coffee and cardamom plantations, where tea pickers are frequently bitten.1
Juutugol
68 cm (2,2 ft)1
Yaawugol ɓurngol toowugol
wona 3,4 km/h (2,1 mph)
E leydi yoornde, miijo tun
Ko honɗun ngal ñaamata?
It feeds mainly on frogs, lizards, small birds and rodents. It is an ambush hunter that relies on camouflage to catch prey, and uses heat-sensing pits on its face to find warm-blooded animals.1
Goonga!Natal Large-scaled pit viper
Large-scaled pit viper. Natal: Uaijth. CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons.

Hono anndirtee ngal

  • Bright green on the back, sometimes with blackish skin between the scales1
  • A yellow or white stripe runs along each side of the body1
  • Pale green upper lips, and sometimes a black streak behind the eye1
  • Large, keeled, overlapping scales in 12 to 15 rows at the middle of the body1
  • Often active at night, moving through trees and on the ground with a prehensile tail that grips branches1

Doole tooke ŋatgol

Ŋatgol

Tooke no yaltira ñiiƴe mum tuma ngal ŋatata.

Ko honɗun tooke mum waɗata (ŋatgol walla jukkugol)?

Its venom is presumed to be hemotoxic, meaning it is thought to act on the blood. This has not been studied thoroughly, so the details of its effects are not well known.1

Hono musiiba mum heewiri e yimɓe?

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

Tea pickers are frequently bitten by this species, but the bites are seldom fatal.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?

Large-scaled pit viper juuti wona 68 cm (2,2 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 Large-scaled pit viper 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 high-elevation specialist and is not normally recorded below 1200 m, with records between 1200 and 2695 m.1

2

It has an even number of dorsal scale rows, which is frequently found in this species but uncommon in snakes in general.1

Ngam ganduɓe tooke

Innde ganndal
Craspedocephalus macrolepis
Fedde
Wipeeri ngaska
Ɓesngu
Viperidae2
Ordre
Squamata
Leyɗe mawɗe
Aazi
Ɓiɓɓe tokosɓe
It lays eggs. Sexually mature females lay clutches of 4 to 7 eggs, usually in October.1
Musiiba e yimɓe
3 / 5: Musiiba mawɗo3

Ɗo humpitooji ɗin iwri

  1. Craspedocephalus macrolepis (Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0))
  2. Craspedocephalus macrolepis (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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