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Coastal taipan

Oxyuranus scutellatus
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The coastal taipan is one of the most feared snakes in Australia. It is a large, fast snake with a powerful venom, and it lives along the coasts of northern and eastern Australia and on the island of New Guinea. It is one of the reasons snake bite safety matters so much in these areas.1

Vive en
Northern and eastern Australia (north-western Western Australia, Northern Territory, Cape York, eastern Queensland, northern New South Wales) and southern New Guinea1
Australia e Oceanía
Inicio
It lives in warm, wet coastal regions, monsoon forests, open woodland and grassy areas, including grazing paddocks and disused rubbish tips. It has adapted well to sugarcane fields, where it feeds on rodents. It shelters in abandoned animal burrows, hollow logs and piles of vegetation and litter.1
Lonxitude
1,5 m a 2,9 m (4,9 ft a 9,5 ft)1
Peso
6,5 kg (14 lb)1
Velocidade máxima
uns 8,7 km/h (5,4 mph)
En terra, estimación aproximada
Que come?
It mainly eats rats, mice and bandicoots, and will take birds when it has the chance. It scans for prey with its good eyesight, freezes when it finds a target, then strikes with several quick bites and releases the prey, which staggers away. This keeps the snake safer from retaliation by rats.1
De verdade!Foto de Coastal taipan
Coastal taipan. Foto: Sardaka. CC BY-SA 4.0, iNaturalist.

Como recoñecelo

  • Light olive or reddish-brown upperparts, sometimes dark grey to black1
  • Paler sides and a creamy-white to pale yellow belly, often marked with orange or pink flecks1
  • Long, narrow head with an angular brow and a lighter-coloured face1
  • Large, round, light brown or hazel eyes with large pupils1
  • Typically about 2.0 m long as an adult, with a slender body1

Adoita confundirse con: It is often confused with the eastern brown snake, northern brown snake and king brown snake. The coastal taipan has a larger head and a narrow neck, and a lighter face and snout. In the other species, the head and neck are the same width.1

Poder da pezoña

Morde

A pezoña sae polos seus cairos ou dentes cando morde.

Que fai a súa pezoña?

Its venom is mainly neurotoxic, which means it attacks the nerves, and it is also coagulopathic, which means it disturbs blood clotting. In a recorded bite case, the victim became unwell within 15 to 30 minutes, with drooping eyelids, nausea and difficulty breathing. Some victims have also lost their sense of smell for a time.1

Que perigoso é para as persoas?

Perigo para as persoas: MortalUn dos animais máis perigosos do mundo.

It is considered one of the most dangerous snakes in the region and is classified by the World Health Organization as a snake of medical importance. Several deaths were recorded from its bites in the 1930s and 1940s, and more were added later as historical cases.1

Boas novas: os médicos teñen un medicamento (antiveleno) ou un tratamento para isto.1

Que fai cando ten medo?

It tends to avoid confrontation but becomes highly defensive if provoked.1

Se morde

  • Any suspected bite needs urgent medical care. In one recorded case, the bitten man was taken to hospital, where he was given fluids and tiger snake antivenom, and he recovered after 19 days in hospital.1
  • Inmobilización con presión: envolve cunha venda elástica firme a mordedura e despois todo o membro cara arriba, ponlle unha férula e mantén a persoa completamente quieta ata que chegue a axuda.
  • Non laves a mordedura: no hospital poden analizar a pezoña que queda na pel para escoller o antiveleno axeitado.

Chama sempre primeiro ao teu número de emerxencias (112, 000, 911). Isto son consellos xerais de primeiros auxilios, non consello médico. Primeiros auxilios básicos

Mantente a salvo

  • Nunca toques, collas nin molestes un animal salvaxe, aínda que sexa pequeno e aínda que pareza durmido ou morto.
  • Déixalle espazo. Se atopas un, mantén a calma, recúa amodo e déixao ir polo seu camiño.
  • Se un te morde: mantén a calma, non te movas, chama ao teu número de emerxencias (112, 000, 911) ou vai rápido a un hospital. Lembra como era, unha foto axuda.

Non vai a por ti. Usa a súa pezoña para cazar comida ou para defenderse, e prefire con moito agocharse. Máis sobre como estar a salvo

En que lugar do mundo?

ÁfricaAsiaEuropaAmérica do NorteAmérica do SurAustralia e Oceanía

Que tamaño ten?

Canto mide?

Coastal taipan mide uns 2,9 m (9,5 ft)A bicicleta dun adulto uns 1,8 m (5,9 ft)Un coche uns 4,5 m (15 ft)

Canto pesa?

pesa coma 1,5 gatos domésticos
mide coma 3 cans do fociño á colamide coma 16 bananas postas en filapesa máis ou menos coma un gato domésticopodería percorrer 100 metros en 41 segundos (o humano máis rápido precisa 9,6)

Que tamaño ten Coastal taipan comparado CONTIGO?

Só son contas no teu navegador. Non se garda nin se envía nada a ningures.

Que rápido é?

paga a pena sabelo

Datos

1

The longest recorded coastal taipan was 2.9 m long and weighed 6.5 kg, and larger specimens of up to 3.3 m are widely believed to exist.1

2

Its hunting method, freezing, striking and releasing prey, is similar to that of the African black mamba.1

3

It is the second-longest venomous snake in Australia, after the king brown snake.1

4

Newly hatched young grow quickly, reaching about 1.0 m in their first year.1

5

It may have become more common since cane toads were introduced to Australia in 1935.1

Desmontamitos

Mito: The snake hides in trees and drops onto people, and it chases people for hours.

Verdade: Stories of it hiding in trees and dropping on victims were spread in newspapers and books, but snake handlers say it is shy and avoids confrontation. It only becomes highly defensive when provoked.1

Para expertos en pezoñas

Nome científico
Oxyuranus scutellatus
Grupo
Serpes australianas
Familia
Elapidae2
Orde
Squamata
Continentes
Australia e Oceanía
Crías
It lays a clutch of 7 to 20 eggs. The eggs take 60 to 80 days to hatch, and the young are 30 to 34 cm long.1
Como lle vai na natureza
Least Concern (IUCN)1
Perigo para as persoas
5 / 5: Mortal3

De onde veñen os datos

  1. Coastal taipan (Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0))
  2. Oxyuranus scutellatus (iNaturalist): nomes e clasificación.
  3. Venom Wiki: o nivel de perigo, o tamaño típico e a velocidade estimada son nosos. Mira como os calculamos: Como valoramos o perigo.

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