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Small-scaled burrowing asp

Atractaspis microlepidota
Ingathe kuphaIngathe kukupha ngati sunalandire chithandizo. Ikakuluma, peza thandizo mwachangu.
Njoka za mano akumbuyo ImalumaImadya: Nyama
Ngozi kwa anthu: Yoopsa kwambiriIngathe kupha munthu amene sanalandire chithandizo.

The small-scaled burrowing asp is a black snake that lives underground in parts of West Africa. It is a venomous snake with long, hollow fangs, and scientists have studied it only a few times in the wild. It is interesting because it uses its fangs in an unusual way.1

Imakhala ku
Senegal, Gambia, southern Mauritania and western Mali in West Africa1
Africa
Kunyumba
This snake likes to burrow, and most of its prey also lives underground.1
Kutalika
75 cm (2,5 ft)1
Liwiro lapamwamba
pafupifupi 4,8 km/h (3 mph)
Pamtunda, kuyerekeza chabe
Imadya chiyani?
Its diet is not well studied. Snakes of its genus have been found with small rodents, birds, lizards, frogs, locusts and white ants in their stomachs or mouths. It stabs prey from the side, often underground, using one fang.1

Mmene ungaizindikirire

  • Black in colour, with a lighter, flatter belly than its back1
  • Smooth body scales1
  • Flattened head with a blunt snout, covered in plates rather than small scales1
  • Short tail and a neck that is not well defined1
  • Average length about 45 cm, with some reaching 75 cm1

Nthawi zambiri imasokonezedwa ndi: It is often confused with vipers (family Viperidae) because its long, hollow fangs look similar. Its head is covered in plates, while vipers have small scales on the head.1

Mphamvu ya ululu

Imaluma

Ululu umatuluka kudzera m'mano ake ikaluma.

Ululu wake umachita chiyani?

Its venom is thick and slightly milky in appearance. It appears to be related to elapid venom rather than viper venom. In humans, the bite may first cause pain near the bite, followed by numbness and swelling in the same area.1

Ndi yoopsa bwanji kwa anthu?

Ngozi kwa anthu: Yoopsa kwambiriIngathe kupha munthu amene sanalandire chithandizo.

Its venom is not considered very lethal to humans. However, there have been deaths, mainly among younger children.1

Imachita chiyani ikachita mantha?

It sits still with its nose pointing towards the ground, as if ready to dive into the soil, though this has been seen only a few times.1

Ikaluma

  • Sambitsa polumidwapo, munthuyo akhale wodekha ndipo peza thandizo la dokotala. Mitundu ina (monga boomslang) ingathe kupha patapita maola.

Nthawi zonse yamba wayimbira nambala yadzidzidzi (112, 000, 911). Awa ndi malangizo wamba a chithandizo choyamba, osati malangizo a dokotala. Zoyambira za chithandizo choyamba

Khala wotetezeka

  • Usakhudze, kugwira kapena kuseweretsa nyama yakuthengo, ngakhale yaing'ono, ndipo ngakhale ikuoneka ngati yagona kapena yafa.
  • Ipatse malo. Ukakumana nayo, khala chete, bwerera m'mbuyo pang'onopang'ono ndipo uilole ipite njira yake.
  • Ikakuluma: khala chete, usasunthe, imbira nambala yadzidzidzi (112, 000, 911) kapena pita kuchipatala mwachangu. Kumbukira m'mene inkaonekera, chithunzi chimathandiza.

Sikufuna kukuvulaza. Imagwiritsa ntchito ululu wake kugwira chakudya kapena kudziteteza, ndipo imakonda kwambiri kubisala. Zambiri za kukhala wotetezeka

Ndi yaikulu bwanji?

Ndi yaitali bwanji?

Small-scaled burrowing asp yaitali pafupifupi 75 cm (2,5 ft)Mphaka wapakhomo pafupifupi 50 cm (1,6 ft)Galu pafupifupi 1 m (3,3 ft)
yaitali ngati nthochi 4 zoyalidwa motsatizanaingathamange mamita 100 m'masekondi 75 (munthu wothamanga kwambiri amafunika 9.6)

Small-scaled burrowing asp ndi yaikulu bwanji poyerekeza ndi IWE?

Ndi masamu chabe mu msakatuli wako. Palibe chomwe chimasungidwa kapena kutumizidwa kwina.

Imathamanga bwanji?

zoyenera kudziwa

Mfundo

1

It has long, hollow fangs, but usually uses only one of them to stab its prey.1

2

When given several mice, it envenomated all of them before going back to eat them.1

3

Most of its prey burrows, so many of its strikes happen underground, where there is little room to move.1

Kuthetsa nthano zabodza

Nthano yabodza: It is a viper, because it has long hollow fangs like vipers.

Zoona: It is not closely related to vipers. Its fangs are similar, but it is more closely related to the families Colubridae and Elapidae, and its venom is unlike viper venom.1

Za akatswiri a ululu

Dzina la sayansi
Atractaspis microlepidota
Gulu
Njoka za mano akumbuyo
Banja
Atractaspididae2
Dongosolo
Squamata
Makontinenti
Africa
Ana akhanda
It lays eggs that hatch outside the body.1
Ngozi kwa anthu
4 / 5: Yoopsa kwambiri3

Kumene mfundo zimachokera

  1. Small-scaled burrowing asp (Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0))
  2. Atractaspis microlepidota (iNaturalist): mayina ndi magulu a sayansi.
  3. Venom Wiki: mlingo wa ngozi, kukula wamba ndi kuyerekeza kwa liwiro ndi zathu. Ona mmene timazipezera: Mmene timayezera ngozi.

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