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Southern hognose snake

Heterodon simus
O imenu: The name refers to the upturned snout, which looks a little like a pig's nose.1
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The southern hognose snake is a stout, harmless snake with a sharply upturned nose. It lives on the coastal plain of the southeastern United States, where it hunts toads and other small animals.1

Živi v
Coastal plain of the southeastern United States, from North Carolina south to Lake Okeechobee in Florida and west to Mississippi1
Severna Amerika
Domov
It lives in dry grasslands such as longleaf pine sandhill, upland pine forest and scrubby flatwoods. In some areas it also lives in overgrown pastures, dry river floodplains, fields and pine plantations.1
Dolžina
36 cm do 61 cm (1,2 ft do 2 ft)1
Največja hitrost
približno 4,6 km/h (2,9 mph)
Na kopnem, groba ocena
Kaj je?
It mainly eats spadefoot toads and true toads. It also eats salamanders, other frogs, lizards and small mammals, and rarely large invertebrates.1
Zares!Fotografija: Southern hognose snake
Southern hognose snake. Fotografija: Caudatejake. CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons.

Kako jo prepoznaš

  • A stout body with a wide neck and a sharply upturned snout1
  • A light brown, yellowish, grey or reddish base colour with a distinct row of dark blotches along the back1
  • Smaller dark blotches alternate with the main blotches along the sides1
  • About 25 rows of keeled (ridged) scales around the middle of the body1
  • Young snakes have a belly that is clearly darker than the underside of the tail. As they age, the underside usually turns pale white1

Moč strupa

Ugrizi

Strup pride ven skozi strupnike ali zobe, ko ugrizne.

Kako nevarna je za ljudi?

Nevarnost za ljudi: BlagaKot čebelji pik ali manj. Za ljudi praktično neškodljiva.

It is described as harmless to people.1

Če ugrizne

  • Ugriz umij, poškodovanca pomiri in poišči zdravniško pomoč. Nekatere vrste (na primer bumslang) so lahko smrtno nevarne še čez nekaj ur.

Vedno najprej pokliči številko za klic v sili (112, 000, 911). To so splošna navodila za prvo pomoč, ne zdravniški nasvet. Osnove prve pomoči

Ostani varen

  • Nikoli se ne dotikaj divje živali, je ne lovi in je ne draži, tudi če je majhna in tudi če je videti, kot da spi ali je mrtva.
  • Pusti ji prostor. Če jo srečaš, ostani miren, počasi stopi nazaj in jo pusti, da gre svojo pot.
  • Če te ugrizne: ostani miren, ne premikaj se, pokliči številko za klic v sili (112, 000, 911) ali hitro pojdi v bolnišnico. Zapomni si, kako je izgledala, fotografija pomaga.

Ne preži nate. Strup uporablja, da ulovi hrano ali se zaščiti, in se veliko raje skrije. Več o varnosti

Kako velika je?

Kako dolga je?

Southern hognose snake približno 61 cm dolga (2 ft)Domača mačka približno 50 cm (1,6 ft)Pes približno 1 m (3,3 ft)
dolga kot 3 banan, položenih ena za drugozmore 100 metrov v 78 sekundah (najhitrejši človek potrebuje 9,6)

Kakšne velikosti je Southern hognose snake v primerjavi s TABO?

Samo matematika v tvojem brskalniku. Nič se ne shrani in nič se nikamor ne pošlje.

Kako hitra je?

vredno vedeti

Dejstva

1

Toads make up most of its diet, which sets it apart from many snakes that mainly eat other animals.1

2

Hatchlings are already 15 to 18 cm long, which is a large size for a newborn snake.1

3

Its upturned snout is an adaptation that gives the species its common name.1

4

The Alabama Department of Conservation and Natural Resources lists it as possibly extirpated (locally extinct) in that state.1

5

It is classified as Vulnerable on the IUCN Red List, meaning it faces a high risk of extinction in the wild.1

Za strokovnjake za strupe

Znanstveno ime
Heterodon simus
Skupina
Kače z zadnjimi strupniki
Družina
Colubridae2
Red
Squamata
Celine
Severna Amerika
Mladiči
It lays eggs. Clutches contain 6 to 14 thin-shelled, leathery, whitish eggs, which hatch after 55 to 60 days.1
Kako ji gre v naravi
Vulnerable (IUCN Red List, assessed 2007)1
Nevarnost za ljudi
1 / 5: Blaga3

Od kod so dejstva

  1. Southern hognose snake (Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0))
  2. Heterodon simus (iNaturalist): imena in razvrstitev.
  3. Venom Wiki: stopnja nevarnosti, tipična velikost in ocena hitrosti so naše lastne. Poglej, kako jih določimo: Kako ocenjujemo nevarnost.

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