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Red-headed krait

Bungarus flaviceps
Inogona kuurayaInogona kukuuraya kana usina kurapwa. Kana ikakuruma, wana rubatsiro nokukurumidza.
Macobra, mamba nemakrait InorumaInodya: Nyama
Ngozi kuvanhu: Ine ngozi zvikuruInogona kuuraya munhu asina kurapwa.

The red-headed krait is a large, highly venomous snake with a striking look: a bright red head and tail and a glossy black body. It lives in lowland rain forests across Southeast Asia, including on some islands, and it is uncommon. It is a night-time hunter, and people rarely meet it.1

Inogara mu
Southern Myanmar, Thailand, Cambodia, Vietnam, Peninsular Malaysia, Singapore, Borneo, and parts of Indonesia1
Asia
Kumba
It lives in rain forests in lowland, hilly and mountainous areas, including some islands. It is hardly ever found near human homes.1
Kureba
1,2 m kusvika 2,1 m (3,9 ft kusvika 6,9 ft)1
Kumhanya kukuru
kunenge 7,8 km/h (4,8 mph)
Pasi pevhu, kufungidzira
Inodya chii?
It eats skinks, lizards, frogs, caecilians (legless amphibians), small mammals and snake eggs. It was once thought to eat mainly other snakes.1
Chaizvo!Mufananidzo waRed-headed krait
Red-headed krait. Mufananidzo: Henning Larsen. CC BY-SA 4.0, iNaturalist.

Maziviro ayo

  • A bright red head and tail1
  • A black body with a narrow bluish white stripe along the side1
  • Large, smooth, glossy scales1
  • Adults can reach 2.1 metres, with an average of 1.2 to 1.5 metres1

Inowanzovhiringidzwa ne: It is similar to the blue Malayan coral snake, which is also venomous, and to the nonvenomous red-headed reed snake.1

Simba reuturu

Inoruma

Uturu hunobuda nemeno ayo painoruma.

Uturu hwayo hunoitei?

Its venom is a neurotoxin, which attacks the nerves. It blocks signals between nerves and muscles, causing paralysis. Victims can stop breathing, which can lead to death by asphyxiation. Between 20 minutes and several hours after a bite, drooping eyelids may appear, along with double vision, difficulty swallowing, vomiting, headache and excess saliva. Symptoms can then worsen as more muscles, including the jaw, become paralysed, and breathing can become difficult.1

Ine ngozi yakadii kuvanhu?

Ngozi kuvanhu: Ine ngozi zvikuruInogona kuuraya munhu asina kurapwa.

Bites are reported rarely, and the venom is little studied for this reason. It is not usually considered high risk to people in the daytime, because it is sluggish and hides. At night it is active and extremely dangerous.1

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

Inoitei kana yatya?

When disturbed, it presses its head into the ground or hides its head within its flattened or rolled coils. Captives will generally refuse to strike until they have been teased for a long time.1

Kana ikaruma

  • Get to a hospital fast. Neurotoxic symptoms can be treated in hospital with antivenin or with drugs that inactivate acetylcholinesterase, an enzyme that breaks down the chemical messenger between nerves and muscles. Symptoms may also settle on their own.1
  • Chengeta munhu asingafambe uye akadzikama, bvisa mhete nezvinhu zvakasunga, uende kuchipatara nokukurumidza: antivenom ndiwo mushonga wacho.

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?

Red-headed krait kunenge 2,1 m kureba (6,9 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 46 (munhu anomhanyisa kupfuura vose anoda 9.6)

Red-headed krait yakakura sei kana yaenzaniswa NEWE?

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

Inomhanya zvakadii?

zvakanaka kuziva

Chokwadi

1

Its venom contains a novel toxin called κ-flavitoxin, which blocks nicotinic transmission in autonomic ganglia, clusters of nerve cells that control automatic body functions.1

2

It has short, hollow fangs at the front of its upper jaw, and venom is forced out through a hole near the tip of each fang.1

3

It is partly aquatic and mainly active at night.1

4

It was once thought to eat mainly other snakes, but its diet is now known to be much wider.1

Kuputsa ngano

Ngano: It only eats other snakes.

Chokwadi: Its diet includes skinks, lizards, frogs, caecilians, small mammals and snake eggs, as well as snakes.1

Kune nyanzvi dzeuturu

Zita resainzi
Bungarus flaviceps
Boka
Macobra, mamba nemakrait
Mhuri
Elapidae2
Odha
Squamata
Makondinendi
Asia
Ngozi kuvanhu
4 / 5: Ine ngozi zvikuru3

Kwakabva chokwadi

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

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