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Fat-tailed scorpion

Androctonus australis
Nezvezita: The name joins the Greek word for "man-killer" with the Latin word for "south", giving "southern man-killer".1
Inogona kuurayaInogona kukuuraya kana usina kurapwa. Kana ikakubaya, wana rubatsiro nokukurumidza.
Zvinyavada InobayaInodya: Nyama
Ngozi kuvanhu: Ine ngozi zvikuruInogona kuuraya munhu asina kurapwa.

The fat-tailed scorpion is a hardy desert scorpion from North Africa. It can survive powerful sandstorms without digging a burrow. Its venom is among the most dangerous of any scorpion in the world, so it is important to know it by sight and keep well away from it.1

Inogara mu
North Africa1
Afrika
Kumba
It is found mainly in deserts and other arid places. During the day it hides in humid, dark places and comes out at night to hunt.1
Kureba
10 cm (3,9 in)1
Kumhanya kukuru
kunenge 2 km/h (1,2 mph)
Pasi pevhu, kufungidzira
Inodya chii?
It feeds on insects, small lizards and even small mammals, hunting at night. Cannibalism has been reported in this species.1
Chaizvo!Mufananidzo waFat-tailed scorpion
Fat-tailed scorpion. Mufananidzo: unknown. CC0, iNaturalist.

Maziviro ayo

  • It is a medium-sized scorpion that can grow up to 10 centimetres long.1
  • It has a very thick, powerful tail.1
  • Stripes run along the sides of its dome-shaped body.1
  • Its armour is covered in tiny dome-shaped granules.1
  • It is active at night and hides by day.1

Inowanzovhiringidzwa ne: Generally similar scorpions from the Middle East and India were once thought to be this species. Recent studies treat them as different species.1

Simba reuturu

Inobaya

Uturu hunobuda nerumbori.

Uturu hwayo hunoitei?

Its venom is very potent and is mainly made of neurotoxins (which attack the nerves), cardiotoxins (which harm the heart) and myotoxins (which damage muscle). It also contains hemotoxins, which affect the blood. Deaths in people usually occur through heart and breathing failure, and sometimes through bleeding in the brain, organ damage or shock.1

Ine ngozi yakadii kuvanhu?

Ngozi kuvanhu: Ine ngozi zvikuruInogona kuuraya munhu asina kurapwa.

It is one of the world's most dangerous scorpions, due to the strength of its venom and its aggressive temperament. It claims several lives each year.1

Kana ikabaya

  • Tonhodza pakabayiwa nepakiti yechando uye chengeta munhu asingafambe. Wana rubatsiro rwechiremba nokukurumidza, kunyanya kuvana: zvimwe zvinyavada zvinouraya vana.

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 ikakubaya: 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?

Fat-tailed scorpion kunenge 10 cm kureba (3,9 in)Chibatanidzo chemapepa kunenge 3 cm (1,2 in)Runhare rwemazuva ano kunenge 15 cm (5,9 in)
yakareba sezvidhinha zvematoyi 3 zvakateedzanainogona kumhanya mamita 100 mumasekondi 180 (munhu anomhanyisa kupfuura vose anoda 9.6)

Fat-tailed scorpion yakakura sei kana yaenzaniswa NEWE?

Masvomhu chete mubrowser yako. Hapana chinochengetwa kana kutumirwa kupi zvako.

Inomhanya zvakadii?

zvakanaka kuziva

Chokwadi

1

It can withstand sandstorms strong enough to strip paint off steel, and it does not dig burrows to shelter from them.1

2

Researchers have considered copying this surface texture for use on aeroplanes and helicopters.1

3

Its armour has dome-shaped granules about 10 micrometres high, and scientists think this texture helps protect it from sand.1

4

The lethal dose (LD50) of its venom is 0.32 mg per kg when injected under the skin.1

5

Its venom contains a toxin called AaTX1, which was first found in this species.1

Kuputsa ngano

Ngano: The fat-tailed scorpion lives across the Middle East and as far east as India.

Chokwadi: Older data suggested a wider range, but more recent studies have discredited this. It is found in North Africa.1

Kune nyanzvi dzeuturu

Zita resainzi
Androctonus australis
Boka
Zvinyavada
Mhuri
Buthidae2
Odha
Scorpiones
Makondinendi
Afrika
Ngozi kuvanhu
4 / 5: Ine ngozi zvikuru3

Kwakabva chokwadi

  1. Androctonus australis (Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0))
  2. Androctonus australis (iNaturalist): mazita nekurongwa kwemhuka.
  3. Venom Wiki: danho rengozi, saizi yakajairika nekufungidzira kwekumhanya ndezvedu. Ona kuti tinozviwana sei: Matinoyera ngozi.

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