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Boomslang

Dispholidus typus
Davart il num: The name comes from Dutch and Afrikaans, meaning "tree snake": boom is "tree" and slang is "snake".1
Po mazzarPo ta mazzar senza tractament. Sch'el ta morda, tschertga spert agid.
Serps cun dents davos MorsasMangia: Charn
Privel per umans: Fitg privlusEl po mazzar ina persuna che na survegn nagin tractament.

The boomslang is a highly venomous tree snake from Sub-Saharan Africa. It spends most of its time in trees and bushes, though it also hunts and shelters on the ground. Its venom works slowly, so a bite can look harmless at first and still be life-threatening.1

Viva en
Sub-Saharan Africa, from West Africa through Central and East Africa to much of Southern Africa1
Africa
Pagina iniziala
It lives mainly in forests but also in karoo shrubs, savannahs, lowland forests and grasslands. It is an excellent climber and is mostly found in trees, but it often hunts or shelters on the ground and sometimes hides underground in harsh weather.1
Lunghezza
1 m fin 1,8 m (3,3 ft fin 6 ft)1
Paisa
175 g fin 510 g (6 oz fin 1,1 lb)1
Sveltezza maximala
circa 6 km/h (3,7 mph)
Sin terra, stima approximativa
Tge mangia el?
It eats chameleons, other arboreal lizards, frogs, and occasionally small mammals, birds, and eggs from nests. It swallows its prey whole and will also eat other snakes, including members of its own species.1
Propi!Foto da Boomslang
Boomslang. Foto: Miguel da Fonseca. CC0, Wikimedia Commons.

Co renconuscher el

  • Adult males are light green with black or blue scale edges.1
  • Adult females are often brown.1
  • Very large eyes and a distinctive egg-shaped head.1
  • Average adults are 100 to 160 cm long, including the tail.1
  • Hatchlings: males are grey with blue speckles, females are pale brown.1

Forza dal tissi

Morsas

Il tissi vegn or tras ses dents da tissi u ses dents, cura ch'el morda.

Tge fa ses tissi?

Its venom is mainly a haemotoxin, a type of venom that disrupts blood clotting. Many tiny clots form in the blood, causing bleeding in tissues such as muscle and the brain, while the small blood vessels become clogged. Symptoms include headache, nausea, sleepiness and confusion, and can lead to cardiac arrest and unconsciousness. Because the venom is slow-acting, symptoms may not appear until many hours after a bite.1

Quant privlus è el per umans?

Privel per umans: Fitg privlusEl po mazzar ina persuna che na survegn nagin tractament.

Bites can be fatal. Of eight serious envenomations reported between 1919 and 1962, two were lethal. In 1957, a herpetologist died after being bitten by a juvenile. Hatchlings about 45 cm long are already dangerously venomous. Delayed symptoms can lead victims to wrongly believe a bite was a harmless dry bite.1

Bunas novitads: ils medis han in medicament (antiserum) u in tractament per quai.1

Tge fa el, cura ch'el ha tema?

It is timid and usually bites only when people try to handle, catch, chase or kill it. When cornered, it inflates its neck and takes an S-shaped striking pose.1

Sch'el morda

  • Antivenom is available and treatment is needed after a bite. Complete blood transfusions may also be required, especially if more than 24 to 48 hours pass without antivenom. Do not assume a bite is harmless just because no symptoms have appeared.1
  • Lava la morsa, tegna la persuna quieta e tschertga agid medicinal. Tschertas spezias (sco il boomslang) pon esser mortalas pir uras pli tard.

Clama adina l'emprim tes numer d'urgenza (112, 000, 911). Quai è in cussegl general d'emprim agid, betg in cussegl medicinal. Basa da l'emprim agid

Resta en segirezza

  • Na tutga, na piglia e na tizza mai in animal selvadi, gnanc in pitschen, ed era sch'el para da durmir u d'esser mort.
  • Dà spazi a l'animal. Sche ti scuntras in, resta calm, va plaun enavos e lascha ir el per sia via.
  • Sch'in tal animal ta morda: resta calm, na ta mova betg, clama tes numer d'urgenza (112, 000, 911) u va spert en in ospital. Ta regorda co ch'el veseva or, ina foto gida.

El n'ha betg quai sin tai. El dovra ses tissi per pigliar nutriment u per sa defender, e sa zuppa bler pli gugent. Dapli davart la segirezza

Nua sin il mund?

AfricaAsiaEuropaAmerica dal NordAmerica dal SidAustralia ed Oceania

Quant grond è el?

Quant lung è el?

Boomslang circa 1,8 m lung (6 ft)Il velo d'in creschì circa 1,8 m (5,9 ft)In auto circa 4,5 m (15 ft)

Quant grev è el?

uschè grev sco 4 bananas
uschè lung sco 4 giats da chasa dal nas fin a la cuauschè lung sco 10 bananas ina suenter l'autrapudess currer 100 meters en 60 secundas (l'uman il pli svelt dovra 9,6)

Quant grond è Boomslang cumpareglià cun TAI?

Mo matematica en tes navigatur. Nagut na vegn memorisà u tramess.

Quant svelt è el?

bun da savair

Fatgs

1

An adult has only 1.6 to 8 mg of venom, but it is thought that 2 to 3 mg could be enough to kill a healthy adult human.1

2

It can open its jaws up to 170 degrees when biting.1

3

Its head is distinctly egg-shaped, and its eyes are exceptionally large.1

4

It often moves its head from side to side to get a better view of objects directly in front of it.1

5

When it is pursued by something too large to eat, it escapes by moving from branch to branch.1

Destructur da mits

Mit: Rear-fanged snakes cannot produce a lethal bite.

Vardad: For a long time many herpetologists believed this, but boomslang bites have caused deaths.1

Per experts da tissi

Num scientific
Dispholidus typus
Gruppa
Serps cun dents davos
Famiglia
Colubridae2
Urden
Squamata
Continents
Africa
Poppins
It lays eggs, on average 8 to 14 (up to 27 have been observed), in a hollow tree trunk or rotting log. The eggs take about 3 months to hatch.1
Privel per umans
4 / 5: Fitg privlus3

Da nua che vegnan ils fatgs

  1. Boomslang (Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0))
  2. Dispholidus typus (iNaturalist): nums e classificaziun.
  3. Venom Wiki: il stgalim da privel, la grondezza tipica e la stima da la sveltezza èn noss agens. Guarda co che nus als calculain: Co che nus valitain il privel.

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