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Eastern green mamba
MordeThe eastern green mamba is a highly venomous snake with a slender body and bright green back. It lives in trees along the coasts of southern and East Africa. Although it is one of the most common green mambas, it is shy and usually hidden in leaves, so it is rarely seen.1
Como recoñecelo
- Bright green upperparts, sometimes with a few isolated yellow scales.1
- Pale yellow-green belly.1
- Juveniles are blue-green and turn bright green at about 75 cm long.1
- Long, slender, coffin-shaped head. It can flatten its neck into a slight hood when threatened.1
- The inside of the mouth is white or bluish-white.1
Adoita confundirse con: Green forms of the boomslang are often called green mambas in Southern Africa. They have larger eyes and shorter heads. Green bush snakes of the genus Philothamnus are often confused with smaller eastern green mambas. The boomslang is also venomous.1
Poder da pezoña
A pezoña sae polos seus cairos ou dentes cando morde.
Que fai a súa pezoña?
Its venom contains neurotoxins, which attack the nerves, and cardiotoxins, which damage the heart. Symptoms include swelling at the bite, dizziness, nausea, dehydration, laboured breathing and difficulty swallowing. These can progress to irregular heartbeat, convulsions and respiratory paralysis, which stops breathing and can be fatal. Paralysis may be mild or absent.1
Que perigoso é para as persoas?
Perigo para as persoas: MortalUn dos animais máis perigosos do mundo.A survey in southern Africa from 1957 to 1979 recorded 17 bites confirmed as eastern green mambas. Ten of these caused systemic envenomation, and no victims died. Bites are most common from September to February, the breeding season, when the snake is most irritable. The average dose able to kill a human is about 18 to 20 mg of venom, and one bite can deliver 60 to 95 mg (dry weight). In 2024, a YouTuber died after being bitten, following anaphylactic shock.1
Que fai cando ten medo?
It is shy and avoids people and predators, attacking only when it feels threatened, and it can flatten its neck into a hood.1
Se morde
- Severe bites must be treated immediately on site, as they can quickly prove deadly.1
- Mantén a persoa quieta e tranquila, quítalle aneis e cousas apertadas e vai rápido a un hospital: o tratamento é o antiveleno.
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?
Que tamaño ten?
Canto mide?
mide coma 2,5 cans do fociño á cola
mide coma 14 bananas postas en fila
podería percorrer 100 metros en 43 segundos (o humano máis rápido precisa 9,6)Que tamaño ten Eastern green mamba comparado CONTIGO?
Só son contas no teu navegador. Non se garda nin se envía nada a ningures.
Que rápido é?
Datos
Males fight each other during the breeding season, usually entwining and pushing to pin each other's heads down. These fights can last several hours, but the snakes do not bite each other.1
Unlike most elapid snakes, which hunt actively, it often waits in ambush for its prey, a style more common among vipers.1
On average, an individual moves only about 5.4 metres per day, and it can stay in the same place for days.1
It has the least toxic venom of the three green mamba species, but it is still highly venomous.1
The oldest recorded eastern green mamba was a captive snake that lived 18.8 years.1
Desmontamitos
Mito: It is an aggressive, fast-moving 'people-chaser'.
Verdade: It is shy and elusive, usually hidden in trees, and it generally avoids people. It attacks only when it feels threatened.1
Para expertos en pezoñas
- Nome científico
- Dendroaspis angusticeps
- Grupo
- Cobras, mambas e búngaros
- Familia
- Elapidae2
- Orde
- Squamata
- Continentes
- África
- Crías
- The female lays 4 to 17 eggs, usually 10 to 15, in leaf litter in hollow trees, from October to November. The young measure about 30 to 45 cm in the wild.1
- Esperanza de vida
- uns 18,8 anos1
- Perigo para as persoas
- 5 / 5: Mortal3
De onde veñen os datos
- Eastern green mamba (Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0))
- Dendroaspis angusticeps (iNaturalist): nomes e clasificación.
- 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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