Eyelash viper
The eyelash viper is a small, tree-living pitviper that lives mainly in the highlands of Colombia. It is named after the eyelash-like scales above its eyes. Its venom can cause serious harm, so it is important to recognise it and keep well away.1

Simba reuturu
Uturu hunobuda nemeno ayo painoruma.
Uturu hwayo hunoitei?
Its venom contains several components that damage tissue, cause swelling and disturb blood clotting. A bite typically causes pain, swelling and bruising at the bite site, and sometimes blisters or local tissue death. Some reports describe rapid local tissue damage followed by clotting problems and acute kidney failure.1
Ine ngozi yakadii kuvanhu?
Ngozi kuvanhu: Ine ngozi zvikuruInogona kuuraya munhu asina kurapwa.The snake is not known to be aggressive towards people and tends to avoid creatures larger than itself, but it will strike if repeatedly harassed. Some studies of venom from northern Colombia reported serious effects, including kidney failure.1
Inoitei kana yatya?
It is not known to be aggressive and tends to avoid larger creatures, but it will strike if repeatedly harassed.1
Kana ikaruma
- Chengeta munhu asingafambe uye akadzikama, chengeta nhengo yakarumwa yakaenzana nemwoyo, bvisa mhete nezvinhu zvakasunga, uende kuchipatara nokukurumidza.
Gara uchitanga wafonera nhamba yechimbichimbi (112, 000, 911). Iri izano rakajairika rerubatsiro rwekutanga, kwete zano rechiremba. Zvakakosha zverubatsiro rwekutanga
Gara wakachengeteka
- Usambobata mhuka yesango, kuedza kuitora kana kuinetsa, kunyange iri diki, uye kunyange ichiita seyakarara kana yakafa.
- Ipa nzvimbo. Kana ukasangana nayo, dzikama, dzokera shure zvishoma nezvishoma uirege iende nenzira yayo.
- Kana imwe ikakuruma: dzikama, gara wakanyarara, fonera nhamba yechimbichimbi (112, 000, 911) kana kuti enda kuchipatara nokukurumidza. Rangarira kuti yaitaridzika sei, mufananidzo unobatsira.
Haisi kukutsvaga. Inoshandisa uturu hwayo kubata chikafu kana kuzvidzivirira, uye inotonyanya kuda kuhwanda. Zvimwe pamusoro pekugara wakachengeteka
Yakakura sei?
Yakareba zvakadii?
yakareba sekatsi dzepamba 1,5 kubva pamhuno kusvika kumuswe
yakareba semabhanana 5 akateedzana
inogona kumhanya mamita 100 mumasekondi 110 (munhu anomhanyisa kupfuura vose anoda 9.6)Eyelash viper yakakura sei kana yaenzaniswa NEWE?
Masvomhu chete mubrowser yako. Hapana chinochengetwa kana kutumirwa kupi zvako.
Inomhanya zvakadii?
Chokwadi
Males perform a courtship ritual called the 'dance of the adders', in which two males rise up in a cobra-like stance and push against each other until one is pushed away or falls.1
Its strike accuracy improves with practice, according to studies of individuals over time.1
Some individuals return to the same ambush sites each year, timing their visits to the spring bird migration.1
Its eyelash-like scales may help it hide by breaking up its outline among the leaves where it rests.1
Kuputsa ngano
Ngano: After a bite, the snake winks its eyelashes at the victim, as some local folktales describe.
Chokwadi: No snake can do this. Snakes have no true eyelids and cannot close their eyes. Most reptiles have a thin, membrane-like eyelid that acts as a shield, mainly when resting.1
Kune nyanzvi dzeuturu
- Zita resainzi
- Bothriechis schlegelii
- Boka
- Mapit viper
- Mhuri
- Viperidae2
- Odha
- Squamata
- Makondinendi
- Amerika yeKuchamhembe, Amerika yeKumaodzanyemba
- Vacheche
- It gives birth to live young rather than laying eggs, with females carrying the eggs for around six months. A typical brood has 2 to 20 young, each 15 to 20 cm long.1
- Iri kurarama sei musango
- Least Concern (IUCN Red List, 2013)1
- Ngozi kuvanhu
- 4 / 5: Ine ngozi zvikuru3
Kwakabva chokwadi
- Bothriechis schlegelii (Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0))
- Bothriechis schlegelii (iNaturalist): mazita nekurongwa kwemhuka.
- Venom Wiki: danho rengozi, saizi yakajairika nekufungidzira kwekumhanya ndezvedu. Ona kuti tinozviwana sei: Matinoyera ngozi.
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