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Red spitting cobra

Naja pallida

Po mazzarPo ta mazzar senza tractament. Sch'el ta morda u ta spida tissi en ils egls, tschertga spert agid.

Cobras, mambas e kraits

Sprizza u spidaMangia: Charn

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

The red spitting cobra is a medium-sized cobra found in East Africa. When threatened, it can spray venom into an attacker's face, which can cause burning pain and blindness. It is often considered an attractive snake, usually bright salmon-red with a black throat band.1

Viva en

East Africa, including Djibouti, Eritrea, Somalia, southern Egypt, Ethiopia, Tanzania, Sudan and Kenya1

Africa

Pagina iniziala

It mainly lives in dry savanna and semidesert up to about 1,200 metres above sea level, and can usually be found near water holes. By day, adults hide in termite mounds, old logs, holes and brush piles. It is known to raid chickens in the region.1

Lunghezza

70 cm fin 1,2 m (2,3 ft fin 3,9 ft)1

Sveltezza maximala

circa 6,8 km/h (4,2 mph)

Sin terra, stima approximativa

Tge mangia el?

It has a wide range of prey but prefers amphibians such as toads and frogs when they are available. It also eats rodents, birds and probably other snakes.1

Foto da Red spitting cobra — Red spitting cobra. Foto: Steven G. Johnson. CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons.

Co renconuscher el

Usually bright salmon-red, with a broad black throat band and teardrop markings below the eyes1
Colour varies by region: specimens from southern Kenya and northern Tanzania are orange-red with a dark blue or black throat band1
The throat band often fades or disappears in larger adults, and true red specimens turn reddish-brown with age1
Adults typically measure 0.7 to 1.2 metres1
When threatened, it rears up, shows a cobra hood and hisses loudly1

Forza dal tissi

Sprizza u spida

El sprizza u spida in liquid che piztga sin ses attatgaders.

Tge fa ses tissi?

Its venom contains a mixture of neurotoxins, which attack the nerves, and cytotoxins, which damage cells. A bite causes slight pain around the wound and numbness of the lips, fingers and tongue. Venom sprayed into the eyes causes burning pain and can cause blindness.1

Quant privlus è el per umans?

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

It seldom causes human deaths, but survivors of its bites are usually left disfigured. In September 2011, a snake keeper from South Africa died shortly after venom was sprayed into his face while he was photographing the snake. The venom is thought to have entered his nasal passages and caused anaphylactic shock, a severe allergic reaction, and his asthma may have contributed.1

Tge fa el, cura ch'el ha tema?

When threatened, it rears up, displays its hood and hisses loudly, and if the intruder does not retreat, it may spray venom at the face. In very rare cases it sprays without first rearing up.1

Sch'el morda u spida

Tegna la persuna immobila e quieta, prenda giu anels e chaussas strenschidas e va spert en in ospital: l'antiserum è il tractament.
Sch'il tissi è vegnì spidà en ils egls, lava ora quels immediat cun bler'aua netta.

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 u ta spida tissi en ils egls: 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 2,5 giats da chasa dal nas fin a la cuauschè lung sco 7 bananas ina suenter l'autrapudess currer 100 meters en 53 secundas (l'uman il pli svelt dovra 9,6)

Quant grond è Red spitting cobra cumpareglià cun TAI?

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Quant svelt è el?

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

Red spitting cobra circa 6,8 km/h (4,2 mph)

In uffant sin il velo circa 12 km/h (7,5 mph)

bun da savair

Fatgs

Young red spitting cobras spit more venom, relative to their body size, than adults do.1

It is thought to be cannibalistic, which may explain why adults are night-active and smaller snakes are day-active.1

Adults are mainly active at night, while juveniles are more active during the day.1

Per experts da tissi

Num scientific: Naja pallida
Gruppa: Cobras, mambas e kraits
Famiglia: Elapidae2
Urden: Squamata
Continents: Africa
Poppins: It lays eggs (it is oviparous), with a clutch of 6 to 21 eggs.1
Privel per umans: 4 / 5: Fitg privlus3

Da nua che vegnan ils fatgs

Red spitting cobra (Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0))
Naja pallida (iNaturalist): nums e classificaziun.
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