Eastern coral snake
The eastern coral snake is a highly venomous snake with bright rings of red, yellow and black. It lives in the southeastern United States, including all of Florida. Its bright colours warn predators to keep away, and it is one of the snakes that people most need to recognise.1

No anndirte ngal
- Wide red and black rings are separated by narrow yellow rings all along the body.1
- The head is black from the snout to just behind the eyes, with a yellow band behind the eyes.1
- The red rings are usually speckled with black.1
- Adults are usually less than 80 cm long, including the tail.1
Ina heewi waylondireede e: The scarlet snake and the scarlet kingsnake are nonvenomous mimics with similar colours. Kingsnakes and the scarlet snake are helpful predators of rats and mice, so the difference matters.1
Doole tooke
Tooke ngal ina yaltira ñiiƴe mum so ina ŋata.
Hol ko tooke ŋatgol mum waɗata?
The venom is a potent neurotoxin, which attacks the nerves. In humans, symptoms can include local pain, slurred speech, double vision, weakness and paralysis, and in severe cases breathing can fail. An estimated 5 mg of venom can be lethal to humans.1
Hol no bone mum heewiri e yimɓe?
Bone e yimɓe: Bone sanneIna waawi warde neɗɗo mo safraaka.Bites and deaths are very rare. Two deaths were documented in the 1950s, and one more has been reported since antivenin became available in the 1960s, the most recent in 2006. The snake is secretive and reluctant to bite; an estimated 40% of bites inject venom, though a 1987 study found 75%.1
Kabaaru moƴƴo: doktooruuji ina njogii lekki (sérum antivenimeux) walla safaara ngam ɗum.1
Hol ko ngal waɗata so ina hula?
When threatened it tries to escape, and if it cannot, it may hide its head under its coils, mimic the head with its tail, move erratically or feign death.1
So ina ŋata
- The most recent victim died after failing to seek proper medical attention, so anyone bitten should get medical help straight away. Antivenom is available.1
- Haɗ neɗɗo oo dillaade, deƴƴin mo, yahra mo opitaal law, hay so nokku ŋataaɗo oo ina famɗi: maandeeji ina mbaawi fuɗɗaade caggal waktuuji.
Adii fof noddu nimero urgence (112, 000, 911). Ɗum ko anndinal ballal adiingal, wonaa saaraangal doktoor. Ko adii e ballal adiingal
Reen hoore maa
- Wota a meem, wota a nanngu, wota a ñiŋŋu kullal ladde haa abada, hay so ngal ina famɗi, hay so ina nanndi e ɗaaniingal walla maayngal.
- Accu ngal nokku. So a fotti e ngal, deƴƴu, ruttu ɓaawo seeɗa seeɗa, accu ngal yaha laawol mum.
- So gooto ŋatii ma: deƴƴu, wota a dillu, noddu nimero urgence (112, 000, 911) walla yahu opitaal law. Jogo e hakkille no ngal nanndi, natal ina walla.
Ngal faalaaka gaañde ma. Ina huutoroo tooke mum ngam nanngude ñaamdu walla reenaade, ina ɓuri yiɗde suuɗaade. Ɓeydu anndude no reentortoo
Hol to e aduna?
Hol no mawniri?
Hol no juutiri?
juutde no ulluuɗi galle 2,5, hinere haa lawol
juutde no banaanaaji 7 sammondiraaɗi
ina waawi taƴde 100 meeteer e segonde 73 (neɗɗo ɓurɗo yaawde ina sokli 9,6)Hol no Eastern coral snake mawniri, so fooɗondiraama e AN?
Limgal tan e navigatoor maa. Alaa ko danndetee walla ko neldetee.
Hol no yaawiri?
Humpito
An adult's venom can kill up to five adult humans, but the snake cannot release all of it in a single bite.1
Unlike New World pit vipers, the coral snake cannot control how much venom it injects.1
Males mature 11 to 16 months after hatching, while females take about 26 months.1
Coral snakes are mostly active during the day, and night sightings are rare.1
The range could expand up to 200 km northward because of climate change, according to future models.1
Feññinoowo fenaande
Fenaande: "Red and yellow, kill a fellow" is a reliable way to tell a venomous coral snake from a harmless mimic.
Goonga: The rhyme is a folk saying that only applies to snakes in the southern United States, and it does not work anywhere else.1
Ngam ganduɓe tooke
- Innde ganndal
- Micrurus fulvius
- Fedde
- Ɓoɗɗi koraay
- Ɓesngu
- Elapidae2
- Ordre
- Squamata
- Leyɗe mawɗe
- Amerik Rewo
- Ɓiɓɓe tokooso
- Females lay between 3 and 12 eggs, usually in June, which hatch around September, and there is no parental care.1
- Hol no ngal woniri e ladde
- Least Concern globally (IUCN, 2007), but of significant conservation concern locally, for example Endangered in North Carolina1
- Bone e yimɓe
- 4 / 5: Bone sanne3
Ɗo humpito iwri
- Micrurus fulvius (Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0))
- Micrurus fulvius (iNaturalist): inɗe e ceergal.
- Venom Wiki: tolno bone, mawnude heewnde e miijo yaawde ko amen. Yiy no men keɓirta ɗum: No men tolnirta bone.
Kala humpito e ngoo hello ina jogii limoore hollirnde iwdi mum. So men juumii, yaafo, men ko yiɗɓe kulle, wonaa jaaynde ganndal. Wiy men e [email protected], men feewnita.
Ŋatgol

