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Red spitting cobra

Naja pallida
Inogona kuurayaInogona kukuuraya kana usina kurapwa. Kana ikakuruma kana kukupfira uturu mumaziso, wana rubatsiro nokukurumidza.
Macobra, mamba nemakrait Inopfapfaidza kana kupfiraInodya: Nyama
Ngozi kuvanhu: Ine ngozi zvikuruInogona kuuraya munhu asina kurapwa.

The red spitting cobra is a medium-sized cobra found in East Africa. When threatened, it can spray venom into an attacker's face, which can cause burning pain and blindness. It is often considered an attractive snake, usually bright salmon-red with a black throat band.1

Inogara mu
East Africa, including Djibouti, Eritrea, Somalia, southern Egypt, Ethiopia, Tanzania, Sudan and Kenya1
Afrika
Kumba
It mainly lives in dry savanna and semidesert up to about 1,200 metres above sea level, and can usually be found near water holes. By day, adults hide in termite mounds, old logs, holes and brush piles. It is known to raid chickens in the region.1
Kureba
70 cm kusvika 1,2 m (2,3 ft kusvika 3,9 ft)1
Kumhanya kukuru
kunenge 6,8 km/h (4,2 mph)
Pasi pevhu, kufungidzira
Inodya chii?
It has a wide range of prey but prefers amphibians such as toads and frogs when they are available. It also eats rodents, birds and probably other snakes.1
Chaizvo!Mufananidzo waRed spitting cobra
Red spitting cobra. Mufananidzo: Steven G. Johnson. CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons.

Maziviro ayo

  • Usually bright salmon-red, with a broad black throat band and teardrop markings below the eyes1
  • Colour varies by region: specimens from southern Kenya and northern Tanzania are orange-red with a dark blue or black throat band1
  • The throat band often fades or disappears in larger adults, and true red specimens turn reddish-brown with age1
  • Adults typically measure 0.7 to 1.2 metres1
  • When threatened, it rears up, shows a cobra hood and hisses loudly1

Simba reuturu

Inopfapfaidza kana kupfira

Inopfapfaidza kana kupfira mvura inorwadza pane vanoirwisa.

Uturu hwayo hunoitei?

Its venom contains a mixture of neurotoxins, which attack the nerves, and cytotoxins, which damage cells. A bite causes slight pain around the wound and numbness of the lips, fingers and tongue. Venom sprayed into the eyes causes burning pain and can cause blindness.1

Ine ngozi yakadii kuvanhu?

Ngozi kuvanhu: Ine ngozi zvikuruInogona kuuraya munhu asina kurapwa.

It seldom causes human deaths, but survivors of its bites are usually left disfigured. In September 2011, a snake keeper from South Africa died shortly after venom was sprayed into his face while he was photographing the snake. The venom is thought to have entered his nasal passages and caused anaphylactic shock, a severe allergic reaction, and his asthma may have contributed.1

Inoitei kana yatya?

When threatened, it rears up, displays its hood and hisses loudly, and if the intruder does not retreat, it may spray venom at the face. In very rare cases it sprays without first rearing up.1

Kana ikaruma kana kupfira

  • Chengeta munhu asingafambe uye akadzikama, bvisa mhete nezvinhu zvakasunga, uende kuchipatara nokukurumidza: antivenom ndiwo mushonga wacho.
  • Kana uturu hwakapfirwa mumaziso, asuke nemvura yakachena yakawanda ipapo ipapo.

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 kana kukupfira uturu mumaziso: 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 spitting cobra kunenge 1,2 m kureba (3,9 ft)Imbwa kunenge 1 m (3,3 ft)Munhu mukuru kunenge 1,7 m (5,6 ft)
yakareba sekatsi dzepamba 2,5 kubva pamhuno kusvika kumusweyakareba semabhanana 7 akateedzanainogona kumhanya mamita 100 mumasekondi 53 (munhu anomhanyisa kupfuura vose anoda 9.6)

Red spitting cobra yakakura sei kana yaenzaniswa NEWE?

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

Inomhanya zvakadii?

zvakanaka kuziva

Chokwadi

1

Young red spitting cobras spit more venom, relative to their body size, than adults do.1

2

It is thought to be cannibalistic, which may explain why adults are night-active and smaller snakes are day-active.1

3

Adults are mainly active at night, while juveniles are more active during the day.1

Kune nyanzvi dzeuturu

Zita resainzi
Naja pallida
Boka
Macobra, mamba nemakrait
Mhuri
Elapidae2
Odha
Squamata
Makondinendi
Afrika
Vacheche
It lays eggs (it is oviparous), with a clutch of 6 to 21 eggs.1
Ngozi kuvanhu
4 / 5: Ine ngozi zvikuru3

Kwakabva chokwadi

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

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