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Darevsky's viper

Vipera darevskii
Davart il num: It is named after Ilya Sergeyevich Darevsky, a Russian herpetologist (a scientist who studies reptiles and amphibians).1
Fa mo malQuai fa mal, ma i na ta fa nagin donn serius.
Vipras MorsasMangia: Charn
Privel per umans: DolurusQuai po far propi mal, ma i n'è bunamain mai grav.

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

Viva en
Northwestern Armenia, northeastern Turkey and southern Georgia1
Asia
Pagina iniziala
It lives in cold, damp mountain ridges at heights of 2,300 to 3,000 metres. It favours rocky deposits, high moraines and rocky outcrops surrounded by alpine grassland, especially on warm, steep south-facing and south-east-facing slopes.1
Lunghezza
15 cm fin 42 cm (5,9 in fin 1,4 ft)1
Paisa
500 mg (0 oz)1
Sveltezza maximala
circa 3,1 km/h (1,9 mph)
Sin terra, stima approximativa
Tge mangia el?
It hunts lizards, small rodents and orthopterans (insects such as grasshoppers and crickets). Because its venom is potent, its prey digests very quickly.1
Propi!Foto da Darevsky's viper
Darevsky's viper. Foto: ttadevosyan76. CC BY 4.0, iNaturalist.

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

Morsas

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?

Darevsky's viper circa 42 cm lung (1,4 ft)Ina banana circa 18 cm (7,1 in)In giat da chasa circa 50 cm (1,6 ft)

Quant grev è el?

pli lev ch'in clip da palpiri
uschè lung sco 2,5 bananas ina suenter l'autrauschè lung sco 13 bluccs da construcziun in suenter l'auteruschè lev che ti n'al sentissas betg sin il maunpudess 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?

bun da savair

Fatgs

1

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

2

Remains of this snake have been found in the droppings of a beech marten, although little is known about its natural enemies.1

3

Newborns feed on the yolk left inside them for their first two weeks, and they grow without eating before their first shed.1

4

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

  1. Vipera darevskii (Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0))
  2. Vipera darevskii (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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