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Large-scaled pit viper

Craspedocephalus macrolepis

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Pit vipers (emisota egiwulira ebbugumu)

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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

Kibeera mu

Mountains of the southern Western Ghats, Kerala and Tamil Nadu states, South India1

Asiya

Awaka

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

Obuwanvu

68 cm (2,2 ft)1

Embiro ezisinga

nga 3,4 km/h (2,1 mph)

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Kirya ki?

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

Ekifaananyi kya Large-scaled pit viper — Large-scaled pit viper. Ekifaananyi: Uaijth. CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons.

Engeri y'okukitegeera

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

Amaanyi g'obusagwa

Kiruma

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

Obusagwa bwakyo bukola ki?

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

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

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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.

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Large-scaled pit viper kinene kyenkana wa bw'ogeraageranya ne GGWE?

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Kidduka kyenkana wa?

Enfuddu nga 0,3 km/h (0,19 mph)

Large-scaled pit viper nga 3,4 km/h (2,1 mph)

Omuntu atambula nga 5 km/h (3,1 mph)

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Ebituufu

It is a high-elevation specialist and is not normally recorded below 1200 m, with records between 1200 and 2695 m.1

It has an even number of dorsal scale rows, which is frequently found in this species but uncommon in snakes in general.1

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Erinnya erya ssaayansi: Craspedocephalus macrolepis
Ekibinja: Pit vipers (emisota egiwulira ebbugumu)
Amaka: Viperidae2
Ensengeka: Squamata
Ssemazinga: Asiya
Abaana abawere: It lays eggs. Sexually mature females lay clutches of 4 to 7 eggs, usually in October.1
Akabi eri abantu: 3 / 5: Kya maanyi3

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Craspedocephalus macrolepis (Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0))
Craspedocephalus macrolepis (iNaturalist): amannya n'ensengeka y'ebika.
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