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Igishushanyo cya Eastern massasauga
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Eastern massasauga

Sistrurus catenatus
Ibyerekeye izina: "Massasauga" comes from the Ojibwe language and probably means "great river-mouth", likely describing the grasslands around river deltas.1
Bisaba mugangaNi gake yica, ariko kurumwa na yo bisaba kujya kwa muganga.
Rattlesnake IrarumaIrya: Inyama
Akaga ku bantu: IkomeyeKurumwa na yo bisaba kujya kwa muganga. Abapfa ni bake cyane.

The eastern massasauga is a small rattlesnake that lives in eastern North America, mainly around the Great Lakes. It is the only venomous snake in Ontario, Canada. It is shy and keeps away from people, but it is a protected species because its numbers have fallen sharply.1

Iba muri
Southern Ontario, Canada, and eastern parts of the Midwestern United States, including the Great Lakes region1
Amerika y'Amajyaruguru
Ahabanza
It is most often found near wetlands such as swamps, marshes, bogs, fens, wet meadows and floodplains. It may also live in meadows, prairies and coniferous forests, and often uses crayfish burrows. In summer it may move to drier habitats.1
Uburebure
60 cm kugeza kuri 75 cm (2 ft kugeza kuri 2,5 ft)1
Umuvuduko wo hejuru
hafi 3,4 km/h (2,1 mph)
Ku butaka, ikigereranyo cy'ugereranyije
Irya iki?
It eats small vertebrates, mainly rodents such as voles, white-footed mice, jumping mice and shrews. Juveniles mostly eat reptiles, usually lizards in western populations and snakes in eastern ones. Frogs are also an important food in some northern and eastern populations.1
Koko!Ifoto ya Eastern massasauga
Eastern massasauga. Ifoto: Willem Span. CC BY 4.0, iNaturalist.

Uko wayimenya

  • Ground colour is grey or tan.1
  • A row of large, rounded brown or black blotches runs down the centre of the back.1
  • Three smaller rows of alternating spots run down each side.1
  • Solid black individuals also occur.1
  • Like all rattlesnakes, it has heat-sensing pits on each side of its head, between the eye and the nostril.1

Imbaraga z'ubumara

Iraruma

Ubumara busohokera mu menyo yayo y'ubumara cyangwa mu yandi menyo iyo iriye.

Ubumara bwayo bukora iki?

Its venom is cytotoxic, which means it destroys tissue. It also contains digestive enzymes that disrupt blood flow and stop blood from clotting. In its prey, these effects cause severe internal bleeding.1

Iteje akaga kangana iki ku bantu?

Akaga ku bantu: IkomeyeKurumwa na yo bisaba kujya kwa muganga. Abapfa ni bake cyane.

The snake is shy and avoids humans when it can. Most bites in Ontario happened after people handled it or accidentally stepped on it. Only two deaths from its bites have been recorded in Ontario, and in both cases the victims did not receive proper treatment.1

Ikora iki iyo ifite ubwoba?

It is shy and tends to withdraw from people rather than confront them.1

Niba iruma

  • Umuntu agume atanyeganyega kandi atuje, urugingo rwarumwe rugume ku rwego rumwe n'umutima, mukuremo impeta n'ibindi bintu bifashe cyane, kandi mujye ku bitaro vuba.

Buri gihe banza uhamagare nimero y'ubutabazi (112, 000, 911). Izi ni inama rusange z'ubutabazi bw'ibanze, si inama za muganga. Ibanze by'ubutabazi bw'ibanze

Irinde akaga

  • Ntuzigere ukora, ufata cyangwa ushotora inyamaswa yo mu gasozi, nubwo yaba ntoya, kandi nubwo yasa n'isinziriye cyangwa yapfuye.
  • Yihe umwanya. Niba uhuye n'imwe, tuza, usubire inyuma buhoro buhoro kandi uyireke yigendere.
  • Niba imwe ikurumye: tuza, ntunyeganyege, hamagara nimero y'ubutabazi (112, 000, 911) cyangwa ujye ku bitaro vuba. Ibuka uko yasaga, ifoto irafasha.

Ntigushakisha ngo ikugirire nabi. Ikoresha ubumara bwayo kugira ngo ifate ibyo kurya cyangwa yirinde, kandi ikunda cyane kwihisha. Ibindi ku kwirinda

Ingana gute?

Ireshya ite?

Eastern massasauga ireshya hafi 75 cm (2,5 ft)Injangwe yo mu rugo hafi 50 cm (1,6 ft)Imbwa hafi 1 m (3,3 ft)
ireshya n'imineke 4 ikurikiranyeyakwiruka metero 100 mu masegonda 110 (umuntu wihuta kurusha abandi akenera 9,6)

Eastern massasauga ingana ite ugereranyije NAWE?

Ni imibare gusa ikorerwa muri mudasobwa yawe. Nta kintu kibikwa cyangwa cyoherezwa ahandi.

Yihuta gute?

bikwiye kumenywa

Ibintu by'ukuri

1

It is a pit viper, a family that includes all rattlesnakes, and it is the only venomous snake in Ontario.1

2

Mothers and newborns stay together for a few days, until the young shed their skin for the first time.1

3

Females often do not breed every year, usually having a two-year breeding cycle.1

4

Its populations have declined so much that it has disappeared from many of its former areas, and now survives mainly in small, isolated groups.1

Ku bahanga mu by'ubumara

Izina rya siyansi
Sistrurus catenatus
Itsinda
Rattlesnake
Umuryango
Viperidae2
Itsinda rinini (order)
Squamata
Imigabane
Amerika y'Amajyaruguru
Abana bato
It gives birth to live young (it is ovoviviparous), usually in August or September. Litters of 5 to 14 have been reported in Illinois and 6 to 19 in Wisconsin, and the newborns are 18.8 to 24.4 cm long from snout to vent.1
Uko imeze mu gasozi
Threatened in Canada under federal and Ontario law; listed as endangered in several US states; IUCN Red List: least concern (2007, with a note that the assessment needs updating)1
Akaga ku bantu
3 / 5: Ikomeye3

Aho ibintu bivugwa bituruka

  1. Eastern massasauga (Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0))
  2. Sistrurus catenatus (iNaturalist): amazina n'ibyiciro.
  3. Venom Wiki: urwego rw'akaga, ingano isanzwe n'ikigereranyo cy'umuvuduko ni ibyacu bwite. Reba uko tubibara: Uko tugena akaga.

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