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Rough-skinned newt

Taricha granulosa
Inogona kuurayaUsabataInogona kuuraya kana pasina kurapwa. Kana munhu akaibata kana kuidya, wana rubatsiro nokukurumidza.
Matatya ane chepfu, matoad nemanewt Chepfu muganda rayoIne chepfu, haina uturu hwekuruma kana kubaya
Ngozi kuvanhu: Ine ngozi zvikuruInogona kuuraya munhu asina kurapwa.

The rough-skinned newt is a small, stocky amphibian from the Pacific Northwest of North America. Its skin gives off one of the strongest toxins of any newt, so it is a creature to admire from a distance and never handle. Its toxin is also linked to a famous fight between newts and garter snakes.1

Ine chepfu kana ine uturu? Mhuka dzine uturu dzinopinza uturu nekuruma kana kubaya. Mhuka dzine chepfu dzine ngozi kubata kana kudya. Iyi ine chepfu.
Inogara mu
Pacific Northwest of North America, from Alaska south to Santa Cruz, California. Rare east of the Cascade Mountains.1
Amerika yeKuchamhembe
Kumba
Found in the Pacific Northwest, including a small isolated population in ponds north of Moscow, Idaho, which is thought to have been introduced by people.1
Kureba
11 cm kusvika 18 cm (4,3 in kusvika 7,1 in)1
Kumhanya kukuru
kunenge 0,5 km/h (0,31 mph)
Pasi pevhu, kufungidzira
Chaizvo!Mufananidzo waRough-skinned newt
Rough-skinned newt. Mufananidzo: The High Fin Sperm Whale. CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons.

Maziviro ayo

  • Stocky body with a rounded snout.1
  • Top ranges from light brown to olive or brownish-black.1
  • Underside, including the head, legs and tail, is orange to yellow.1
  • Skin is granular, but males are smooth-skinned during the breeding season.1
  • Adults are 11 to 18 cm long overall, including the tail.1

Inowanzovhiringidzwa ne: The California newt (Taricha torosa) looks similar. The rough-skinned newt has smaller eyes, yellow irises, V-shaped tooth patterns and uniformly dark eyelids. During breeding season, males have large swollen vent lobes and cornified toe pads, which separate them from females.1

Simba rechepfu

Chepfu muganda rayo

Ganda rayo rine chepfu. Ine ngozi kubata, kunanzva kana kudya.

Chepfu yayo inoitei?

This animal is poisonous rather than venomous, so it does not bite or sting. Its skin produces tetrodotoxin (TTX), a neurotoxin that attacks the nerves. It blocks the sodium channels that nerves need to send signals. This can cause paralysis and death by asphyxiation, which means the person cannot breathe.1

Ine ngozi yakadii kuvanhu?

Ngozi kuvanhu: Ine ngozi zvikuruInogona kuuraya munhu asina kurapwa.

The toxin is mainly dangerous if the newt is eaten. Some people have had skin irritation after handling the newt, especially if they touch their eyes without washing their hands first. In 1979, a 29-year-old man from Oregon died after eating one. Some newts make enough toxin to kill several adult humans.1

Inoitei kana yatya?

It gives off an acrid smell that warns animals to stay away.1

Kana munhu akaibata kana kuidya

  • Kana munhu akabata imwe: geza maoko zvakanaka uye usabata maziso kana muromo. Kana mwana kana chipfuwo chakananzva kana kudya imwe: fonera nzvimbo yeruzivo rwechepfu kana nhamba yechimbichimbi.

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 wakaibata kana kuidya: usakwesha maziso kana muromo wako, geza maoko ako uye wana rubatsiro rwechiremba.

Haisi kukutsvaga. Chepfu yayo iripo chete kuti pasava nechinhu chinoidya. Zvimwe pamusoro pekugara wakachengeteka

Yakakura sei?

Yakareba zvakadii?

Rough-skinned newt kunenge 18 cm kureba (7,1 in)Bhanana kunenge 18 cm (7,1 in)Katsi yepamba kunenge 50 cm (1,6 ft)
yakareba sezvidhinha zvematoyi 6 zvakateedzana

Rough-skinned newt yakakura sei kana yaenzaniswa NEWE?

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

Inomhanya zvakadii?

zvakanaka kuziva

Chokwadi

1

Some common garter snakes can eat rough-skinned newts and survive. They are the only known animals today able to do this.1

2

A garter snake tests a newt's toxin level by partly swallowing it, then either swallows it fully or lets it go.1

3

Newts can detect the chemical signature of a snake that has digested one of their kind, and they move away from it.1

4

The toxin is made by the newt's skin microbiome, meaning the bacteria living on its skin.1

5

The newt and the garter snake are an example of an evolutionary arms race. Each change in one species drives change in the other.1

6

The toxin also appears in pufferfish and other marine animals, which share the same nerve-blocking effect.1

Kune nyanzvi dzeuturu

Zita resainzi
Taricha granulosa
Boka
Matatya ane chepfu, matoad nemanewt
Mhuri
Salamandridae2
Odha
Caudata
Makondinendi
Amerika yeKuchamhembe
Vacheche
The eggs contain tetrodotoxin, which helps protect the offspring from predators such as the common garter snake.1
Ngozi kuvanhu
4 / 5: Ine ngozi zvikuru3

Kwakabva chokwadi

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

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