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Asp viper

Vipera aspis
Ku linnya: "Aspis" is a Greek word that means "viper".1
Kyetaaga omusawoTekitera kutta, naye okulumwa kwetaaga omusawo.
Vipers n'essalambwa KirumaKirya: Ennyama
Akabi eri abantu: Kya maanyiOkulumwa kwetaaga omusawo. Okufa kubaawo kitono nnyo.

The asp viper is a venomous snake of south-western Europe. It lives in warm, sunny places with dry soil, often in hills and rocky areas. Its bite can be more severe than that of the European adder, so it is important to know what it looks like.1

Kibeera mu
South-western Europe: France, Andorra, north-eastern Spain, south-western Germany, Switzerland, Italy and north-western Slovenia.1
Bulaaya
Awaka
It needs warm, sun-exposed areas with plenty of plant cover and fairly dry soil. It is found on sunny slopes, scrubland, forest clearings, woodland edges, mountain meadows, rubbish dumps and stone quarries. In France and Italy it is often found in low mountains and hills, especially in limestone areas.1
Obuwanvu
60 cm okutuuka ku 85 cm (2 ft okutuuka ku 2,8 ft)1
Embiro ezisinga
nga 3,4 km/h (2,1 mph)
Ku lukalu, kuteebereza bwokka
Kirya ki?
It is known to eat lizards, as shown in one photograph of an asp eating a lizard in Tuscany, Italy.1
Ddala!Ekifaananyi kya Asp viper
Asp viper. Ekifaananyi: Gilles San Martin. CC BY-SA 4.0, iNaturalist.

Engeri y'okukitegeera

  • Average total length is 60–65 cm. Males can reach 85 cm, while females are rarely longer than 75 cm.1
  • The head is broad and triangular, and it is clearly separate from the neck.1
  • The tip of the snout is slightly but distinctly turned up.1
  • The tail is very short, and males are a little slimmer than females.1
  • The pattern on the back varies a lot. It rarely forms a clear zigzag, unlike the European adder.1

Kitera okutabulwa ne: The European adder (Vipera berus) is a close relative. The asp's back pattern rarely forms a clear zigzag, as the adder's often does. Bites from the asp can be more severe than those from the adder.1

Amaanyi g'obusagwa

Kiruma

Obusagwa buyita mu mannyo gaakyo amawanvu (fangs) oba mu mannyo amalala nga kiruma.

Obusagwa bwakyo bukola ki?

Its venom causes rapidly spreading, severe pain, followed by swelling and skin discolouration. Severe bleeding and tissue death can happen within a few hours. Vision may be badly affected, and in some cases victims developed breathing and swallowing difficulties and paralysis of the bitten limb.1

Kirina akabi kenkana wa eri abantu?

Akabi eri abantu: Kya maanyiOkulumwa kwetaaga omusawo. Okufa kubaawo kitono nnyo.

About 4% of untreated bites are fatal. In Italy, this species causes 90% of snakebite cases and is the only snake in Italian mountains that can be potentially lethal. Its bites can be more severe than those of the European adder.1

Bwe kiruma

  • Omuntu muleke ateetambula era ateefu, ekitundu ekirumiddwa kibeere ku buwanvu bw'omutima, ggyamu empeta n'ebintu ebinyweza, era omutwale mu ddwaliro mangu.

Bulijjo sooka kuba ennamba y'ebigwa bitalaze (112, 000, 911). Buno bulagirizi bwa bujjanjabi obusooka obwa bulijjo, si kuwabula kwa musawo. Obujjanjabi obusooka obw'omusingi

Weekuume

  • Tokwatako, tokwata wadde okusoomooza ensolo ey'omu nsiko, ne bw'eba ntono, era ne bw'eba erabika nga yeebase oba nga efudde.
  • Gireke n'ebbanga. Bw'osisinkana emu, beera mukkakkamu, dda emabega mpola era gireke egende mu kkubo lyayo.
  • Bw'emu ekuluma: beera mukkakkamu, totambula, kuba ennamba y'ebigwa bitalaze (112, 000, 911) oba tuuka mu ddwaliro mangu. Jjukira bwe yali efaanana, ekifaananyi kiyamba.

Tekikunoonya. Kikozesa obusagwa bwakyo okukwata emmere oba okwekuuma, era kyandisinze kwekweka. Ebirala ku kwekuuma

Wa mu nsi?

AfirikaAsiyaBulaayaAmerika ey'ObukiikakkonoAmerika ey'ObukiikaddyoAwusitureeliya ne Oseyaniya

Kinene kyenkana wa?

Kiwanvu kyenkana wa?

Asp viper kiwanvu nga 85 cm (2,8 ft)Kkapa ey'awaka nga 50 cm (1,6 ft)Embwa nga 1 m (3,3 ft)
kiwanvu nga kkapa ez'awaka 1,5 okuva ku nnyindo okutuuka ku mukirakiwanvu nga ndiizi 5 eziteekeddwa mu lunyiririkyandisobodde okudduka mita 100 mu sikonda 110 (omuntu asinga embiro yeetaaga 9,6)

Asp viper kinene kyenkana wa bw'ogeraageranya ne GGWE?

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Ebituufu

1

Ancient writers named the snake that supposedly killed Queen Cleopatra as an asp. Experts think a cobra would have been too big, over 5 feet long, to smuggle in a basket.1

2

In the past, the word "asp" was used to mean any venomous snake.1

3

In 2006, a number of these vipers were found in a wooded area near Poortugaal in the Netherlands. The species is not native there, so it was probably released or escaped.1

4

Asp vipers have been found at over 2,100 m above sea level in the Pyrenees, even though they are not strongly linked to high altitudes.1

5

The venom yield is relatively low. One study recorded a daily extraction of 9–10 mg.1

Omumenyi w'enfumo

Enfumo: Queen Cleopatra was killed by a cobra.

Amazima: Ancient sources named the snake an asp. Experts think a cobra would have been too big to smuggle in a basket.1

Ku bakugu mu busagwa

Erinnya erya ssaayansi
Vipera aspis
Ekibinja
Vipers n'essalambwa
Amaka
Viperidae2
Ensengeka
Squamata
Ssemazinga
Bulaaya
Kiri kitya mu nsiko
Vulnerable (IUCN Red List, assessed 2022)1
Akabi eri abantu
3 / 5: Kya maanyi3

Ebituufu we biva

  1. Vipera aspis (Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0))
  2. Vipera aspis (iNaturalist): amannya n'ensengeka y'ebika.
  3. Venom Wiki: omutendera gw'akabi, obunene obwa bulijjo n'okuteebereza kw'embiro bibyaffe. Laba engeri gye tubibalamu: Engeri gye tupimamu akabi.

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