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Jararaca

Bothrops jararaca

Davart il num: The name jararaca comes from Old Tupi îararaka.1

Po mazzarPo ta mazzar senza tractament. Sch'el ta morda, tschertga spert agid.

Vipras da fossa

MorsasMangia: Charn

Privel per umans: Fitg privlusEl po mazzar ina persuna che na survegn nagin tractament.

The jararaca is a highly venomous pit viper from South America. It is an important cause of snakebites in the areas where it lives. Its venom also gave scientists a peptide that was used to develop a family of heart and blood pressure drugs.1

Viva en

Southern Brazil, eastern Paraguay and northern Argentina (including Misiones province)1

America dal Sid

Pagina iniziala

It mainly lives in dense tropical forests on the Atlantic coast. It also lives in thickets, savannas, semitropical highland forests and cultivated fields. Adults live on the ground, while juveniles also climb in trees.1

Lunghezza

1,6 m (5,2 ft)1

Sveltezza maximala

circa 3,7 km/h (2,3 mph)

Sin terra, stima approximativa

Tge mangia el?

Juveniles mainly eat frogs and arthropods, while adults mostly eat mammals, and about 80% of an adult's diet is rodents. It is an ambush predator, relying on good camouflage to catch prey. Juveniles also wiggle their white tail tip to lure prey, which looks like an insect larva.1

Foto da Jararaca — Jararaca. Foto: Leandro Avelar. CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons.

Co renconuscher el

Slender body. Adults can reach a maximum total length of 160 cm, but most are much shorter.1
Colour varies a lot, from tan, brown, grey, yellow and olive to almost maroon.1
Rows of pale-edged, dark brown, triangular or trapezoidal markings run along each side of the body.1
A prominent dark brown stripe runs from behind each eye to the corner of the mouth.1
Juveniles have a white tip on the tail. The tongue is black and the iris is gold to greenish gold.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?

The venom is quite toxic and affects blood clotting. Typical effects include local swelling, bruising and blistering of the bitten limb, and bleeding from the gums and into the skin. Serious cases can involve bleeding in the brain, shock and kidney failure.1

Quant privlus è el per umans?

Privel per umans: Fitg privlusEl po mazzar ina persuna che na survegn nagin tractament.

In southeastern Brazil, this species caused 52% (3,446 cases) of snakebites recorded between 1902 and 1945, with a fatality rate of 0.7%. Its systemic symptoms can be fatal.1

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

Sch'el morda

Get to a hospital fast. In a recorded case, a patient was treated in hospital with bothropic antivenom and fluid replacement.1
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

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 97 secundas (l'uman il pli svelt dovra 9,6)

Quant grond è Jararaca cumpareglià cun TAI?

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

Quant svelt è el?

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

Jararaca circa 3,7 km/h (2,3 mph)

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

bun da savair

Fatgs

The drugs known as ACE inhibitors, used to treat high blood pressure and some types of heart failure, were developed from a peptide found in this snake's venom. Brazilian scientist Sérgio Henrique Ferreira developed them in 1965.1

An enzyme derived from the venom, called haemocoagulase, is used as an anti-haemorrhagic drug, meaning it helps stop bleeding.1

Males mate with more than one female, and males sometimes fight over females.1

Per experts da tissi

Num scientific: Bothrops jararaca
Gruppa: Vipras da fossa
Famiglia: Viperidae2
Urden: Squamata
Continents: America dal Sid
Poppins: Females give birth to live young from February to April, on average 10 to 14 offspring per season.1
Privel per umans: 4 / 5: Fitg privlus3

Da nua che vegnan ils fatgs

Bothrops jararaca (Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0))
Bothrops jararaca (iNaturalist): nums e classificaziun.
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