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Peruvian giant centipede

Scolopendra gigantea
Inoda chirembaHaiwanzouraya, asi kurumwa kunoda chiremba.
Macentipede InorumaInodya: Nyama
Ngozi kuvanhu: YakakombaKurumwa kunoda chiremba. Kufa hakuwanzoitiki zvachose.

The Peruvian giant centipede is the largest centipede species in the world, growing longer than 30 centimetres. It lives in northern South America and on several Caribbean islands, mostly in rainforests and dry forests. It hunts a wide range of animals, from insects to bats, and its venom is strong enough to stop small mammals.1

Inogara mu
Northern South America, with verified records from Aruba, Brazil, Curaçao, Colombia, Venezuela (including Margarita Island) and Trinidad1
Amerika yeKumaodzanyemba
Kumba
It lives in tropical or sub-tropical rainforest and tropical dry forest, hiding in dark, damp places such as leaf litter, under rocks and logs, and under tree bark. Near human buildings, it often hides in trash piles, rubble, plant pots, crawl spaces under buildings, under old floor and ceiling boards, and in cracks in wooden, concrete and brick walls.1
Kureba
30 cm (1 ft)1
Kumhanya kukuru
kunenge 2,5 km/h (1,6 mph)
Pasi pevhu, kufungidzira
Inodya chii?
It eats any animal it can overpower and kill, including large insects, worms, snails, spiders, scorpions, millipedes, tarantulas, small lizards, frogs, snakes, sparrow-sized birds, mice and bats. Large individuals climb cave ceilings and use a few legs to hold on while they handle heavier prey, such as bats.1
Chaizvo!Mufananidzo waPeruvian giant centipede
Peruvian giant centipede. Mufananidzo: Katka Nemčoková. CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons.

Maziviro ayo

  • It is the largest centipede species in the world, with a length exceeding 30 centimetres.1
  • Specimens may have 21 or 23 body segments.1
  • Its common name refers to yellow legs.1
  • It climbs readily and can rest in hiding spaces under tree bark.1

Simba reuturu

Inoruma

Uturu hunobuda nemeno ayo painoruma.

Uturu hwayo hunoitei?

Its venom is strong enough to immobilise small mammals it hunts, such as bats and mice. The venom is produced in a modified pair of legs placed under the head.1

Ine ngozi yakadii kuvanhu?

Ngozi kuvanhu: YakakombaKurumwa kunoda chiremba. Kufa hakuwanzoitiki zvachose.

At least one human death has been linked to its venom. In 2014, a four-year-old child in Venezuela died after being bitten by a giant centipede hidden inside an open soda can. Researchers at Universidad de Oriente later confirmed the animal was this species.1

Kana ikaruma

  • Geza parumwa, potonhodze kana kupinza mumvura inodziya kuderedza marwadzo, uye wana rubatsiro rwechiremba kana zvikawedzera kuipa.

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?

Peruvian giant centipede kunenge 30 cm kureba (1 ft)Bhanana kunenge 18 cm (7,1 in)Katsi yepamba kunenge 50 cm (1,6 ft)
yakareba sezvidhinha zvematoyi 9 zvakateedzanainogona kumhanya mamita 100 mumasekondi 140 (munhu anomhanyisa kupfuura vose anoda 9.6)

Peruvian giant centipede yakakura sei kana yaenzaniswa NEWE?

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

Inomhanya zvakadii?

zvakanaka kuziva

Chokwadi

1

Large individuals have a clever way of catching bats: they climb cave ceilings and hold their heavier prey with only a few legs attached to the ceiling.1

2

It is the largest centipede species in the world, with a length exceeding 30 centimetres.1

3

It can overpower animals as large as tarantulas, and it can also kill snakes up to 25 centimetres long.1

4

Its venom comes from a modified pair of legs placed just underneath its head.1

5

It climbs readily and will use hiding spaces under tree bark.1

6

Its natural predators include large birds, spiders, and mammals that hunt arthropods, such as the coati, kinkajou and opossum.1

Kune nyanzvi dzeuturu

Zita resainzi
Scolopendra gigantea
Boka
Macentipede
Mhuri
Scolopendridae2
Odha
Scolopendromorpha
Makondinendi
Amerika yeKumaodzanyemba
Ngozi kuvanhu
3 / 5: Yakakomba3

Kwakabva chokwadi

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

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