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Desert night snake

Hypsiglena chlorophaea

NunprivlusNunprivlus per umans. Nagut da far quitads.

Serps cun dents davos

MorsasMangia: Charn

Privel per umans: LevSco ina piztgada d'avieul u main. Practicamain nunprivlus per umans.

The desert nightsnake is a small, slender snake that hunts at night and spends the day hidden. It lives in dry parts of western North America, from the southwestern United States into northwestern Mexico. It is mildly venomous, but it poses no danger to people.1

Viva en

Western and southwestern United States, northwestern Mexico, and a small area of southern British Columbia, Canada1

America dal Nord

Pagina iniziala

It lives in dry places such as desert scrub, chaparral, grasslands, oak woodlands and rocky canyons. It spends daylight hours hiding in rock crevices, on talus slopes, under surface debris or in abandoned mammal burrows.1

Lunghezza

30 cm fin 66 cm (1 ft fin 2,2 ft)1

Sveltezza maximala

circa 4,5 km/h (2,8 mph)

Sin terra, stima approximativa

Tge mangia el?

It is an ambush predator that waits for prey and uses its mild venom to subdue it. It mainly eats small lizards such as skinks and lizard eggs, and will also take small snakes, frogs, salamanders and insects.1

Foto da Desert night snake — Desert night snake. Foto: iNaturalist user: nmoorhatch. CC BY 4.0, Wikimedia Commons.

Co renconuscher el

Small and slender, usually 30 to 66 cm long in total.1
Base colour is beige, yellowish or grey, with dark grey-brown blotches that usually form offset pairs down the back.1
Three long dark blotches on the neck and one behind each eye.1
Triangular head with vertical pupils.1
Smooth scales on the back and no rattle at the tail.1

Savens confundì cun: It is often mistaken for a juvenile rattlesnake because of its triangular head, vertical pupils and blotched pattern. Unlike a rattlesnake, it has no rattle and its back scales are smooth.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?

It is mildly venomous and uses its venom to subdue prey. It has rear fangs, which are grooved teeth at the back of the upper jaw.1

Quant privlus è el per umans?

Privel per umans: LevSco ina piztgada d'avieul u main. Practicamain nunprivlus per umans.

It is mildly venomous and poses no danger to humans.1

Sch'el morda

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?

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

Quant grond è el?

Quant lung è el?

uschè lung sco 4 bananas ina suenter l'autrapudess currer 100 meters en 80 secundas (l'uman il pli svelt dovra 9,6)

Quant grond è Desert night snake cumpareglià cun TAI?

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Quant svelt è el?

Ina tartaruga circa 0,3 km/h (0,19 mph)

Desert night snake circa 4,5 km/h (2,8 mph)

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

bun da savair

Fatgs

It is a rear-fanged snake, with enlarged grooved teeth at the back of the upper jaw that help it subdue prey.1

In Canada, it is federally listed as Endangered, because its small population is threatened by habitat loss.1

Females are generally longer and heavier than males.1

It is mainly active at night and at dusk, which is why it has the name nightsnake.1

Destructur da mits

Mit: It is a juvenile rattlesnake.

Vardad: It is a separate species. It has no rattle and its back scales are smooth.1

Per experts da tissi

Num scientific: Hypsiglena chlorophaea
Gruppa: Serps cun dents davos
Famiglia: Colubridae2
Urden: Squamata
Continents: America dal Nord
Poppins: It lays eggs. Females lay a single clutch of 2 to 9 eggs, usually around 4, between April and July, hidden in rock crevices or abandoned burrows. The eggs hatch in late summer, and the hatchlings are about 17 cm long.1
Co ch'i va ad el en la natira: Least Concern globally (IUCN); Endangered in Canada (COSEWIC)1
Privel per umans: 1 / 5: Lev3

Da nua che vegnan ils fatgs

Hypsiglena chlorophaea (Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0))
Hypsiglena chlorophaea (iNaturalist): nums e classificaziun.
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