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Large-scaled pit viper

Craspedocephalus macrolepis
Ina haani doktaaIna wara seeɗa tan, kono ŋatol mum ina haani doktaa.
Pit viper Ina ŋataIna ñaama: Teewu
Bone e yimɓe: Bone mawɗoŊatol ina haani doktaa. Maayde ina woodi seeɗa 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

Ina wona e
Mountains of the southern Western Ghats, Kerala and Tamil Nadu states, South India1
Asiya
Galle
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
Njuuteendi
68 cm (2,2 ft)1
Yaawre ɓurnde
ɓadii 3,4 km/h (2,1 mph)
E leydi, miijo tan
Hol ko nde 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!Foto Large-scaled pit viper
Large-scaled pit viper. Foto: Uaijth. CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons.

No anndirto nde

  • 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

Ina ŋata

Tooke ina yalta e ñiiƴe mum si nde ŋatii.

Hol ko tooke mum (ŋatol walla fiɗol) waɗata?

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

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Tea pickers are frequently bitten by this species, but the bites are seldom fatal.1

Si nde ŋatii

  • Deeƴin neɗɗo oo, taa o dilla, waɗu koyngal walla junngo ŋataangal e toowal ɓernde, ittu zoobe e geɗe ɗigginiiɗe, yahra mo asibiti law.

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Reen hoore maa

  • Taa memu, taa nanngu, taa aaɓnu dabbaare ladde abada, hay pamaro, hay si ina wayi no ɗaanii walla maayii.
  • Accu nde nokku. Si a fottii e gooto, deeƴu, ruttu caggal seeɗa seeɗa, accu nde yaha laawol mum.
  • Si gooto e majji ŋatii ma: deeƴu, taa dillu, noddu lamba ballal yaawngal (112, 000, 911) walla yah asibiti law. Siftor no nde wayri, foto ina walla.

Nde ɗaɓɓaaki ma. Nde huutora tooke mum ngam nanngude ñaamdu walla reende hoore mum, nde ɓuri yiɗde suuɗaade. Ɓeydu anndude no reentorto

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Large-scaled pit viper juuti ɓadii 68 cm (2,2 ft)Ullundu galle ɓadii 50 cm (1,6 ft)Rawaandu ɓadii 1 m (3,3 ft)
juuti no ayaba 4 jokkondiraaɗiina waawi dogde meeter 100 nder sakan 110 (neɗɗo ɓurɗo yaawde ina haani 9,6)

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Anndal

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
Pit viper
Besngu
Viperidae2
Tolno
Squamata
Nahiyaaji
Asiya
Ɓikkoy
It lays eggs. Sexually mature females lay clutches of 4 to 7 eggs, usually in October.1
Bone e yimɓe
3 / 5: Bone mawɗo3

Ɗo anndal iwi

  1. Craspedocephalus macrolepis (Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0))
  2. Craspedocephalus macrolepis (iNaturalist): inɗe e tolnugol.
  3. Venom Wiki: darja bone, mawnude woowaaɗo e miijo yaawre ko amen. Ndaar no min hiisirta ɗum: No min betiri bone.

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