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Eastern green mamba

Dendroaspis angusticeps
Davart il num: The species name angusticeps comes from Latin words meaning 'narrow' and 'head'.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 eastern green mamba is a highly venomous snake with a slender body and bright green back. It lives in trees along the coasts of southern and East Africa. Although it is one of the most common green mambas, it is shy and usually hidden in leaves, so it is rarely seen.1

Viva en
Coastal regions of East and southern Africa, from Kenya south through Tanzania and Mozambique to KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, plus Zanzibar.1
Africa
Pagina iniziala
It is mainly a tree-dweller that prefers dense, shady vegetation, including forest, thickets and farm trees such as citrus, mango, coconut and cashew. In coastal East Africa it sometimes enters houses and may shelter in thatched roofs.1
Lunghezza
1,8 m fin 2,5 m (5,9 ft fin 8,2 ft)1
Sveltezza maximala
circa 8,3 km/h (5,2 mph)
Sin terra, stima approximativa
Tge mangia el?
It eats birds and their eggs and chicks, small mammals including bats, arboreal rodents and arboreal lizards. It usually waits in ambush for prey, though it has also been seen actively hunting a sleeping bat.1
Propi!Foto da Eastern green mamba
Eastern green mamba. Foto: Dick Culbert. CC BY 4.0, iNaturalist.

Co renconuscher el

  • Bright green upperparts, sometimes with a few isolated yellow scales.1
  • Pale yellow-green belly.1
  • Juveniles are blue-green and turn bright green at about 75 cm long.1
  • Long, slender, coffin-shaped head. It can flatten its neck into a slight hood when threatened.1
  • The inside of the mouth is white or bluish-white.1

Savens confundì cun: Green forms of the boomslang are often called green mambas in Southern Africa. They have larger eyes and shorter heads. Green bush snakes of the genus Philothamnus are often confused with smaller eastern green mambas. The boomslang is also venomous.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 contains neurotoxins, which attack the nerves, and cardiotoxins, which damage the heart. Symptoms include swelling at the bite, dizziness, nausea, dehydration, laboured breathing and difficulty swallowing. These can progress to irregular heartbeat, convulsions and respiratory paralysis, which stops breathing and can be fatal. Paralysis may be mild or absent.1

Quant privlus è el per umans?

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

A survey in southern Africa from 1957 to 1979 recorded 17 bites confirmed as eastern green mambas. Ten of these caused systemic envenomation, and no victims died. Bites are most common from September to February, the breeding season, when the snake is most irritable. The average dose able to kill a human is about 18 to 20 mg of venom, and one bite can deliver 60 to 95 mg (dry weight). In 2024, a YouTuber died after being bitten, following anaphylactic shock.1

Tge fa el, cura ch'el ha tema?

It is shy and avoids people and predators, attacking only when it feels threatened, and it can flatten its neck into a hood.1

Sch'el morda

  • Severe bites must be treated immediately on site, as they can quickly prove deadly.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?

AfricaAsiaEuropaAmerica dal NordAmerica dal SidAustralia ed Oceania

Quant grond è el?

Quant lung è el?

Eastern green mamba circa 2,5 m lung (8,2 ft)Il velo d'in creschì circa 1,8 m (5,9 ft)In auto circa 4,5 m (15 ft)
uschè lung sco 2,5 chauns dal nas fin a la cuauschè lung sco 14 bananas ina suenter l'autrapudess currer 100 meters en 43 secundas (l'uman il pli svelt dovra 9,6)

Quant grond è Eastern green mamba cumpareglià cun TAI?

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

Quant svelt è el?

bun da savair

Fatgs

1

Males fight each other during the breeding season, usually entwining and pushing to pin each other's heads down. These fights can last several hours, but the snakes do not bite each other.1

2

Unlike most elapid snakes, which hunt actively, it often waits in ambush for its prey, a style more common among vipers.1

3

On average, an individual moves only about 5.4 metres per day, and it can stay in the same place for days.1

4

It has the least toxic venom of the three green mamba species, but it is still highly venomous.1

5

The oldest recorded eastern green mamba was a captive snake that lived 18.8 years.1

Destructur da mits

Mit: It is an aggressive, fast-moving 'people-chaser'.

Vardad: It is shy and elusive, usually hidden in trees, and it generally avoids people. It attacks only when it feels threatened.1

Per experts da tissi

Num scientific
Dendroaspis angusticeps
Gruppa
Cobras, mambas e kraits
Famiglia
Elapidae2
Urden
Squamata
Continents
Africa
Poppins
The female lays 4 to 17 eggs, usually 10 to 15, in leaf litter in hollow trees, from October to November. The young measure about 30 to 45 cm in the wild.1
Durada da vita
circa 18,8 onns1
Privel per umans
5 / 5: Mortal3

Da nua che vegnan ils fatgs

  1. Eastern green mamba (Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0))
  2. Dendroaspis angusticeps (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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