Darevsky's viper
Darevsky's viper is a small venomous snake that lives high in the mountains of northwestern Armenia, northeastern Turkey and southern Georgia. Its bite is painful and causes swelling, but it does not appear to be life-threatening to adults. It is a rare animal, classed as critically endangered.1

Co renconuscher el
- Light brown to grey background colour with a dark brown to black zigzag pattern along the back, often broken into pieces.1
- A single row of small dark blotches on each side of the body.1
- Belly with many grey or black dots. Females have a greyer belly, while males' bellies are almost black.1
- Chin shields and lip scales are white, with a few dark fang-shaped marks on the lip scales.1
- Adult males are brighter, with a yellow tint and a dark, often black, pattern. Females are browner, with a fainter pattern. Females reach up to 42.1 cm in total length.1
Savens confundì cun: It is often compared with Vipera eriwanensis. That species has a pinkish tint on its lip scales, while Darevsky's viper has white lip scales with dark fang-shaped marks.1
Forza dal tissi
Il tissi vegn or tras ses dents da tissi u ses dents, cura ch'el morda.
Tge fa ses tissi?
Its venom is potent, and it is a relatively small venomous snake. A bite causes pain and local swelling around the wound. The bite does not appear to be life-threatening to adult humans.1
Quant privlus è el per umans?
Privel per umans: DolurusQuai po far propi mal, ma i n'è bunamain mai grav.The bite is painful and causes local swelling, but it appears not to be life-threatening to adult humans.1
Sch'el morda
- Tegna la persuna immobila e quieta, tegna il member mors a l'autezza dal cor, prenda giu anels e chaussas strenschidas e va spert en in ospital.
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
Quant grond è el?
Quant lung è el?
Quant grev è el?
uschè lung sco 2,5 bananas ina suenter l'autra
uschè lung sco 13 bluccs da construcziun in suenter l'auter
uschè lev che ti n'al sentissas betg sin il maun
pudess currer 100 meters en 120 secundas (l'uman il pli svelt dovra 9,6)Quant grond è Darevsky's viper cumpareglià cun TAI?
Mo matematica en tes navigatur. Nagut na vegn memorisà u tramess.
Quant svelt è el?
Fatgs
Its digestion is very fast. In captive tests at 4 to 7 °C, a meal of fuzzy rat was digested in only 3 days.1
Remains of this snake have been found in the droppings of a beech marten, although little is known about its natural enemies.1
Newborns feed on the yolk left inside them for their first two weeks, and they grow without eating before their first shed.1
It is active during the day and moves into rocky deposits to keep its body at about 26 to 28 °C.1
Per experts da tissi
- Num scientific
- Vipera darevskii
- Gruppa
- Vipras
- Famiglia
- Viperidae2
- Urden
- Squamata
- Continents
- Asia
- Poppins
- It is ovoviviparous, meaning the eggs hatch inside the mother and she gives birth to live young. She has 4 to 8 babies between September and early October.1
- Co ch'i va ad el en la natira
- Critically endangered (IUCN Red List)1
- Privel per umans
- 2 / 5: Dolurus3
Da nua che vegnan ils fatgs
- Vipera darevskii (Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0))
- Vipera darevskii (iNaturalist): nums e classificaziun.
- 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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