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Large-scaled pit viper

Craspedocephalus macrolepis

Dovra in mediDarar mortal, ma ina morsa sto vegnir tractada dad in medi.

Vipras da fossa

MorsasMangia: Charn

Privel per umans: GravIna morsa sto vegnir tractada dad in medi. Cas da mort èn fitg rars.

The large-scaled pit viper is a venomous snake that lives only in the southern Western Ghats mountains of South India. It is a bright green tree-dweller that hunts at night from high, cool forest. Tea pickers meet it often, which is why it matters to people who work on those plantations.1

Viva en

Mountains of the southern Western Ghats, Kerala and Tamil Nadu states, South India1

Asia

Pagina iniziala

It is a slow-moving, nocturnal snake that prefers rainforest. It is also found in tea, coffee and cardamom plantations, where tea pickers are frequently bitten.1

Lunghezza

68 cm (2,2 ft)1

Sveltezza maximala

circa 3,4 km/h (2,1 mph)

Sin terra, stima approximativa

Tge mangia el?

It feeds mainly on frogs, lizards, small birds and rodents. It is an ambush hunter that relies on camouflage to catch prey, and uses heat-sensing pits on its face to find warm-blooded animals.1

Foto da Large-scaled pit viper — Large-scaled pit viper. Foto: Uaijth. CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons.

Co renconuscher el

Bright green on the back, sometimes with blackish skin between the scales1
A yellow or white stripe runs along each side of the body1
Pale green upper lips, and sometimes a black streak behind the eye1
Large, keeled, overlapping scales in 12 to 15 rows at the middle of the body1
Often active at night, moving through trees and on the ground with a prehensile tail that grips branches1

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 presumed to be hemotoxic, meaning it is thought to act on the blood. This has not been studied thoroughly, so the details of its effects are not well known.1

Quant privlus è el per umans?

Privel per umans: GravIna morsa sto vegnir tractada dad in medi. Cas da mort èn fitg rars.

Tea pickers are frequently bitten by this species, but the bites are seldom fatal.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

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

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Quant svelt è el?

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

Large-scaled pit viper circa 3,4 km/h (2,1 mph)

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

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Fatgs

It is a high-elevation specialist and is not normally recorded below 1200 m, with records between 1200 and 2695 m.1

It has an even number of dorsal scale rows, which is frequently found in this species but uncommon in snakes in general.1

Per experts da tissi

Num scientific: Craspedocephalus macrolepis
Gruppa: Vipras da fossa
Famiglia: Viperidae2
Urden: Squamata
Continents: Asia
Poppins: It lays eggs. Sexually mature females lay clutches of 4 to 7 eggs, usually in October.1
Privel per umans: 3 / 5: Grav3

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Craspedocephalus macrolepis (Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0))
Craspedocephalus macrolepis (iNaturalist): nums e classificaziun.
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