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Sri Lankan green vine snake

Ahaetulla nasuta
Nezvezita: The genus name Ahaetulla comes from Sinhalese words meaning "eye plucker", from an old belief that these snakes pluck out human eyes. The species name nasuta is Latin for "of the nose", after its long snout.1
Isina ngoziHaina ngozi kuvanhu. Hapana chekunetseka nacho.
Nyoka dzine meno ekumashure InorumaInodya: Nyama
Ngozi kuvanhu: Ngozi shomaSenyuchi kubaya kana kushoma. Kazhinji haina ngozi kuvanhu.

The Sri Lankan green vine snake is a slim, bright green tree snake. It lives only in Sri Lanka, mostly in forests and bush near streams and villages. It is mildly venomous, and its unusual horizontal pupils make it easy to recognise.1

Inogara mu
Endemic to Sri Lanka, in the wet zone's lowland and montane rainforests1
Asia
Kumba
It lives in lowland forest and bush, often near streams and human settlements, so people may meet it in villages and gardens. It spends most of its time in trees.1
Kureba
1,9 m (6,2 ft)1
Kumhanya kukuru
kunenge 5,6 km/h (3,5 mph)
Pasi pevhu, kufungidzira
Inodya chii?
It mainly eats lizards and frogs, and sometimes other snakes, birds and mammals. It hunts slowly by extending its body and swaying gently, like a tree branch.1
Chaizvo!Mufananidzo waSri Lankan green vine snake
Sri Lankan green vine snake. Mufananidzo: Davidvraju. CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons.

Maziviro ayo

  • Long, slender body with a very pointed snout1
  • Bright green to pale brownish colour1
  • A yellow line runs along each side of the lower body1
  • Black-and-white patterned skin shows between the scales1
  • Horizontal pupils, unlike the vertical slit pupils of many vipers1

Inowanzovhiringidzwa ne: It was once grouped with several other green vine snakes across India and Southeast Asia. Recent studies have split these into separate species, and the Sri Lankan form is now restricted to Sri Lanka.1

Simba reuturu

Inoruma

Uturu hunobuda nemeno ayo painoruma.

Uturu hwayo hunoitei?

The snake is mildly venomous. Its bite causes a moderate reaction, with localised pain, swelling, bruising and numbness. These symptoms usually fade within three days.1

Ine ngozi yakadii kuvanhu?

Ngozi kuvanhu: Ngozi shomaSenyuchi kubaya kana kushoma. Kazhinji haina ngozi kuvanhu.

Bites usually do not need medical attention. Some bites near vital organs could be more severe.1

Inoitei kana yatya?

When disturbed, it expands its body to show a black-and-white scale marking and opens its mouth in a threat display.1

Kana ikaruma

  • Bites typically do not require medical attention, but bites near vital organs could be more severe.1
  • Geza parumwa, chengeta munhu akadzikama uye wana rubatsiro rwechiremba. Dzimwe mhando (dzakaita seboomslang) dzinogona kuuraya mushure memaawa.

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?

Sri Lankan green vine snake kunenge 1,9 m kureba (6,2 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 11 akateedzanainogona kumhanya mamita 100 mumasekondi 64 (munhu anomhanyisa kupfuura vose anoda 9.6)

Sri Lankan green vine snake yakakura sei kana yaenzaniswa NEWE?

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

Inomhanya zvakadii?

zvakanaka kuziva

Chokwadi

1

Western internet users have humorously nicknamed it the "judgmental shoelace", because of its long, thin body and narrowed-looking eyes.1

2

Its horizontal pupils are very unusual among snakes.1

3

Its name comes from an old Sinhalese belief that it plucks out human eyes. A Portuguese traveller first reported this belief in 1685.1

4

It hunts by camouflage, slowly swaying to look like a branch.1

5

A female at London Zoo, kept in isolation from August 1885, gave birth in August 1888.1

Kune nyanzvi dzeuturu

Zita resainzi
Ahaetulla nasuta
Boka
Nyoka dzine meno ekumashure
Mhuri
Colubridae2
Odha
Squamata
Makondinendi
Asia
Vacheche
It is ovoviviparous, meaning the young develop inside the mother's body, enclosed in an egg membrane, and are born live.1
Ngozi kuvanhu
1 / 5: Ngozi shoma3

Kwakabva chokwadi

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

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