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West African Gaboon viper

Bitis rhinoceros
No waawi warugolNo waawi warugol ma si a safraaka. Si ŋatii ma, heɓu ballal law.
Musiiba e yimɓe: Musiiba sanneNo waawi warugol neɗɗo mo safraaka.

The West African Gaboon viper is a venomous snake with a pair of enlarged scales on its nose that look like horns. It lives in West Africa, in countries such as Ghana, Ivory Coast, Liberia and Sierra Leone. Like all vipers, it can bite and inject venom.1

No hoɗi nder
West Africa, from Togo west to Guinea, possibly Guinea-Bissau, and reported in Ota, Ogun State, Nigeria1
Afirik
Juutugol
1,2 m (3,9 ft)3
mawnugol mawnuɗo aadaajo
Yaawugol ɓurngol toowugol
wona 3,9 km/h (2,4 mph)
E leydi yoornde, miijo tun
Goonga!Natal West African Gaboon viper
West African Gaboon viper. Natal: Hectonichus. CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons.

Hono anndirtee ngal

  • Has a distinctive pair of enlarged nasal scales that look like horns on its nose.1
  • The dark triangular marking running from the eye back towards the corner of the mouth is not divided.1
  • Its head is broader than that of its close relative B. nasicornis.1
  • Overall it is somewhat larger than B. gabonica.1

No jiibondiree e: The close relative B. nasicornis also has horn-like nasal scales, but it has a brighter colour pattern and a narrower head. B. gabonica is overall somewhat smaller, and in B. g. gabonica the dark marking from the eye to the mouth is divided, which it is not in this snake.1

Doole tooke ŋatgol

Ŋatgol

Tooke no yaltira ñiiƴe mum tuma ngal ŋatata.

Hono musiiba mum heewiri e yimɓe?

Musiiba e yimɓe: Musiiba sanneNo waawi warugol neɗɗo mo safraaka.

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?

West African Gaboon viper juuti wona 1,2 m (3,9 ft)Rawaandu wona 1 m (3,3 ft)Mawɗo wona 1,7 m (5,6 ft)
juuti no ulluuɗi suudu 2,5, hinere haa lawoljuuti no banaanaaji 7 jokkondirɗino waawi taccugol meeteruuji 100 nder segonde 92 (neɗɗo ɓurɗo yaawugol sokli 9,6)

Hono West African Gaboon 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

Its nose has a pair of enlarged scales that look like a pair of horns.1

2

In Ghana and Togo, which are at the eastern edge of its range, it meets and interbreeds with the Gaboon viper B. gabonica.1

3

In 2022, residents of Ota in Nigeria reported sighting one, which extended its known range to include Nigeria.1

Ngam ganduɓe tooke

Innde ganndal
Bitis rhinoceros
Fedde
Wipeeri e adder
Ɓesngu
Viperidae2
Ordre
Squamata
Leyɗe mawɗe
Afirik
Musiiba e yimɓe
4 / 5: Musiiba sanne3

Ɗo humpitooji ɗin iwri

  1. Bitis rhinoceros (Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0))
  2. Bitis rhinoceros (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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