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Cape cobra

Naja nivea

Davart il num: Naja comes from a Sanskrit word meaning 'cobra', and nivea comes from Latin words meaning 'snow' or 'snow-white'.1

MortalIn dals animals ils pli mortals da la Terra. Sch'el ta morda, clama immediat agid.Agid svelt ed antiserum salvan las bleras persunas. Clama immediat tes numer d'urgenza.

Cobras, mambas e kraits

MorsasMangia: Charn

Privel per umans: MortalIn dals animals ils pli privlus dal mund.

The Cape cobra is a medium-sized, highly venomous cobra. It lives in many kinds of land across southern Africa, and it often comes close to people. It is regarded as one of the most dangerous cobras in all of Africa.1

Viva en

Southern Africa: mainly South Africa, plus southern Namibia, south-west Botswana and western Lesotho1

Africa

Pagina iniziala

It lives in fynbos, bushveld, karoo scrubland, arid savanna and deserts. It often uses rodent burrows, abandoned termite mounds and rock crevices. It also enters villages, suburbs of Cape Town and houses, where it may shelter from the heat or hunt rodents.1

Lunghezza

1,2 m fin 1,6 m (3,9 ft fin 5,2 ft)1

Sveltezza maximala

circa 7,5 km/h (4,7 mph)

Sin terra, stima approximativa

Tge mangia el?

It is a feeding generalist that eats other snakes, rodents, lizards, birds and carrion. It is also well known for raiding the nests of sociable weavers, and it can be cannibalistic, sometimes eating the young of its own kind.1

Foto da Cape cobra — Cape cobra. Foto: Marius Burger. CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons.

Co renconuscher el

Colour ranges from yellow through golden brown and dark brown to black.1
Many individuals have black or pale stippling and blotches.1
Juveniles have a dark throat that continues down the belly.1
Adults are typically 1.2 to 1.4 m long.1
When threatened, it raises the front of its body and spreads a broad hood.1

Savens confundì cun: Juvenile Cape cobras have dark throats, which often leads people to confuse them with the rinkhals, a spitting cobra. The dark throat fades during the first year or two of life.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 thick and syrupy, and contains potent neurotoxins that act on the nerves, and possibly cardiotoxins that affect the heart. The venom can affect the respiratory system, nervous system and heart. When death occurs, it normally takes one to ten hours, or more, and is often caused by respiratory failure due to paralysis.1

Quant privlus è el per umans?

Privel per umans: MortalIn dals animals ils pli privlus dal mund.

It is regarded as one of the most dangerous cobras in Africa because of its potent venom and its frequent presence around houses. The mortality rate for untreated bites is not exactly known, but is thought to be high, around 50%. Outcomes depend on factors such as the amount of venom injected and the bitten person's state of mind.1

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

Tge fa el, cura ch'el ha tema?

When threatened, it raises its forebody, spreads a broad hood, may hiss loudly and strikes readily.1

Sch'el morda

Mechanical ventilation (a machine that helps the person breathe) and symptom management are often enough to save a life. Serious cases need antivenom, which is a polyvalent antivenom produced by the South African Institute of Medical Research.1
Tegna la persuna immobila e quieta, prenda giu anels e chaussas strenschidas e va spert en in ospital: l'antiserum è il tractament.

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?

Africa Asia Europa America dal Nord America dal Sid Australia ed Oceania

Quant grond è el?

Quant lung è el?

uschè lung sco 3 giats da chasa dal nas fin a la cuauschè lung sco 9 bananas ina suenter l'autrapudess currer 100 meters en 48 secundas (l'uman il pli svelt dovra 9,6)

Quant grond è Cape cobra cumpareglià cun TAI?

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

Quant svelt è el?

Ina persuna che va a pe circa 5 km/h (3,1 mph)

Cape cobra circa 7,5 km/h (4,7 mph)

In uffant sin il velo circa 12 km/h (7,5 mph)

bun da savair

Fatgs

Its venom dries into shiny pale flakes that look like yellow sugar.1

Meerkats and some mongooses prey on it and have a low susceptibility to its venom.1

It is a good climber and can climb trees and bushes.1

The longest recorded specimen was a male from Aus, Namibia, measuring 1.88 m.1

Per experts da tissi

Num scientific: Naja nivea
Gruppa: Cobras, mambas e kraits
Famiglia: Elapidae2
Urden: Squamata
Continents: Africa
Poppins: It lays eggs, between 8 and 20 per clutch in midsummer, and the hatchlings are completely independent from birth.1
Privel per umans: 5 / 5: Mortal3

Da nua che vegnan ils fatgs

Cape cobra (Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0))
Naja nivea (iNaturalist): nums e classificaziun.
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