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Jararacussu

Bothrops jararacussu
Inogona kuurayaInogona kukuuraya kana usina kurapwa. Kana ikakuruma, wana rubatsiro nokukurumidza.
Mapit viper InorumaInodya: Nyama
Ngozi kuvanhu: Ine ngozi zvikuruInogona kuuraya munhu asina kurapwa.

The jararacussu is a large, highly venomous pit viper that lives in South America. It can grow up to 2.2 metres long and is one of the most feared snakes on the continent. Its bite can cause serious harm, so it is important to know what it looks like.1

Inogara mu
Coastal Brazil (Bahia to Santa Catarina), Paraguay, south-eastern Bolivia and north-eastern Argentina (Misiones Province)1
Amerika yeKumaodzanyemba
Kumba
It lives in the Atlantic forest and semi-deciduous forest. It is also found in perennial forests, pine forests in Paraná in low swampy regions, and along river banks.1
Kureba
2,2 m (7,2 ft)1
Kumhanya kukuru
kunenge 4,2 km/h (2,6 mph)
Pasi pevhu, kufungidzira
Inodya chii?
It usually feeds on amphibians and rodents.1
Chaizvo!Mufananidzo waJararacussu
Jararacussu. Mufananidzo: Henrique Nogueira. CC BY 4.0, iNaturalist.

Maziviro ayo

  • A fairly large snake with a robust body and head.1
  • Body and head colour varies widely. The background can be brown, yellow or almost black.1
  • A pattern of dark arches, and dark spots on the back that look like the letter X.1
  • Medium-sized eyes with vertical, elliptical pupils.1
  • Strongly keeled scales.1

Simba reuturu

Inoruma

Uturu hunobuda nemeno ayo painoruma.

Uturu hwayo hunoitei?

The venom contains cytotoxins, haemotoxins and myotoxins. Cytotoxins damage cells, haemotoxins affect the blood, and myotoxins damage muscle. Severe bites can cause necrosis (death of tissue), shock, spontaneous bleeding inside the body, and kidney failure. Many patients also develop coagulopathy, a condition where the blood cannot clot properly.1

Ine ngozi yakadii kuvanhu?

Ngozi kuvanhu: Ine ngozi zvikuruInogona kuuraya munhu asina kurapwa.

The venom is potent enough to kill sixteen people. In one study of 29 bites in São Paulo state, Brazil, three patients aged 3, 11 and 65 died from respiratory and circulatory failure, even with large doses of antivenom in intensive care. Six patients had necrosis, and one of them lost a limb to amputation. Bites from snakes over 50 cm long caused the most severe effects.1

Mashoko akanaka: vanachiremba vane mushonga (antivenom) kana kurapwa kwechinhu ichi.1

Inoitei kana yatya?

It is described as very aggressive in behaviour.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?

Jararacussu kunenge 2,2 m kureba (7,2 ft)Bhasikoro remunhu mukuru kunenge 1,8 m (5,9 ft)Motokari kunenge 4,5 m (15 ft)
yakareba sekatsi dzepamba 4 kubva pamhuno kusvika kumusweyakareba semabhanana 12 akateedzanainogona kumhanya mamita 100 mumasekondi 86 (munhu anomhanyisa kupfuura vose anoda 9.6)

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Chokwadi

1

Its venom yield is 1000 mg, which is enough to kill 10,163 rats in laboratory measures.1

2

Its fangs are about 2.5 cm long, and it can inject a large amount of venom.1

3

It warms up in the morning sun, then goes out to hunt at night.1

4

It is ovoviviparous and gives birth to between 16 and 20 young in the rainy season.1

Kune nyanzvi dzeuturu

Zita resainzi
Bothrops jararacussu
Boka
Mapit viper
Mhuri
Viperidae2
Odha
Squamata
Makondinendi
Amerika yeKumaodzanyemba
Vacheche
It is ovoviviparous, meaning the eggs hatch inside the mother and she gives birth to live young. A litter has between 16 and 20 young, born in the rainy season.1
Ngozi kuvanhu
4 / 5: Ine ngozi zvikuru3

Kwakabva chokwadi

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

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