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Wagler's pit viper

Tropidolaemus wagleri
Nezvezita: The specific name wagleri honours German herpetologist (reptile and amphibian scientist) Johann Georg Wagler.1
Inoda chirembaHaiwanzouraya, asi kurumwa kunoda chiremba.
Mapit viper InorumaInodya: Nyama
Ngozi kuvanhu: YakakombaKurumwa kunoda chiremba. Kufa hakuwanzoitiki zvachose.

Wagler's pit viper is a venomous snake that lives in the forests of Southeast Asia. It spends most of its life in trees and is sometimes called the temple viper, because it is common around the Temple of the Azure Cloud in Malaysia. Its venom has also been used in scientific research.1

Inogara mu
Southeast Asia: southern Vietnam, southern Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore, and Indonesia (Sumatra and nearby islands)1
Asia
Kumba
It prefers forest, from sea level up to 400 m (1,300 ft). It is almost entirely arboreal, meaning it lives in trees, and its prehensile tail helps it climb.1
Kureba
1 m (3,3 ft)1
Kumhanya kukuru
kunenge 3,5 km/h (2,2 mph)
Pasi pevhu, kufungidzira
Inodya chii?
Its main prey is rodents, birds and lizards. It stays motionless for long periods, waiting for prey to pass, then strikes quickly. Pits on each side of its head, between the eye and nostril, detect small temperature differences.1
Chaizvo!Mufananidzo waWagler's pit viper
Wagler's pit viper. Mufananidzo: diego_cue. CC BY-SA 4.0, iNaturalist.

Maziviro ayo

  • Females can reach about 1 m (39 in) in total length, including the tail, and are black with yellow stripes.1
  • Males typically do not exceed 75 cm (29.5 in). They have large triangular heads and relatively thin green bodies.1
  • The species has many colour forms. Some are black or brown with orange and yellow banding, and others are light green with yellow or orange banding.1
  • It is nocturnal, so it is active at night, and it often stays still for long periods.1

Simba reuturu

Inoruma

Uturu hunobuda nemeno ayo painoruma.

Uturu hwayo hunoitei?

The venom contains four peptides (small protein chains) called waglerins. In studies on mice, waglerin-1 blocked signals passing from nerves to muscles. Waglerins caused fatal breathing paralysis in adult mice.1

Ine ngozi yakadii kuvanhu?

Ngozi kuvanhu: YakakombaKurumwa kunoda chiremba. Kufa hakuwanzoitiki zvachose.

Inoitei kana yatya?

When disturbed, it can strike quickly.1

Kana ikaruma

  • Chengeta munhu asingafambe uye akadzikama, chengeta nhengo yakarumwa yakaenzana nemwoyo, bvisa mhete nezvinhu zvakasunga, uende kuchipatara nokukurumidza.

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?

Wagler's pit viper kunenge 1 m kureba (3,3 ft)Imbwa kunenge 1 m (3,3 ft)Munhu mukuru kunenge 1,7 m (5,6 ft)
yakareba sekatsi dzepamba 2 kubva pamhuno kusvika kumusweyakareba semabhanana 6 akateedzanainogona kumhanya mamita 100 mumasekondi 100 (munhu anomhanyisa kupfuura vose anoda 9.6)

Wagler's pit viper yakakura sei kana yaenzaniswa NEWE?

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

Inomhanya zvakadii?

zvakanaka kuziva

Chokwadi

1

Its pits can detect temperature differences as small as 0.003 °C (0.0054 °F).1

2

Waglerins, the peptides in its venom, are useful tools for studying how nerves and muscles connect.1

3

Females and males look very different, so the sexes were once hard to tell apart as one animal.1

4

Its many colour forms, called phases, were once thought by some researchers to be separate subspecies.1

Kuputsa ngano

Ngano: Waglerin-1 smooths wrinkles, so it is safe to use in skin creams for that purpose.

Chokwadi: Waglerin-1 is included in some skin creams marketed as wrinkle removers, but there is no scientific evidence that it relaxes the muscles that cause wrinkles.1

Kune nyanzvi dzeuturu

Zita resainzi
Tropidolaemus wagleri
Boka
Mapit viper
Mhuri
Viperidae2
Odha
Squamata
Makondinendi
Asia
Vacheche
Mature females give birth to live young, a process called ovoviviparity (eggs hatch inside the mother). Litters range from 15 to 41.1
Ngozi kuvanhu
3 / 5: Yakakomba3

Kwakabva chokwadi

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

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