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West African Gaboon viper

Bitis rhinoceros
Inogona kuurayaInogona kukuuraya kana usina kurapwa. Kana ikakuruma, wana rubatsiro nokukurumidza.
Ngozi kuvanhu: Ine ngozi zvikuruInogona kuuraya munhu asina kurapwa.

The West African Gaboon viper is a venomous snake with a pair of enlarged scales on its nose that look like horns. It lives in West Africa, in countries such as Ghana, Ivory Coast, Liberia and Sierra Leone. Like all vipers, it can bite and inject venom.1

Inogara mu
West Africa, from Togo west to Guinea, possibly Guinea-Bissau, and reported in Ota, Ogun State, Nigeria1
Afrika
Kureba
1,2 m (3,9 ft)3
saizi yakajairika yemhuka yakura
Kumhanya kukuru
kunenge 3,9 km/h (2,4 mph)
Pasi pevhu, kufungidzira
Chaizvo!Mufananidzo waWest African Gaboon viper
West African Gaboon viper. Mufananidzo: Hectonichus. CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons.

Maziviro ayo

  • Has a distinctive pair of enlarged nasal scales that look like horns on its nose.1
  • The dark triangular marking running from the eye back towards the corner of the mouth is not divided.1
  • Its head is broader than that of its close relative B. nasicornis.1
  • Overall it is somewhat larger than B. gabonica.1

Inowanzovhiringidzwa ne: The close relative B. nasicornis also has horn-like nasal scales, but it has a brighter colour pattern and a narrower head. B. gabonica is overall somewhat smaller, and in B. g. gabonica the dark marking from the eye to the mouth is divided, which it is not in this snake.1

Simba reuturu

Inoruma

Uturu hunobuda nemeno ayo painoruma.

Ine ngozi yakadii kuvanhu?

Ngozi kuvanhu: Ine ngozi zvikuruInogona kuuraya munhu asina kurapwa.

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?

West African Gaboon viper 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 92 (munhu anomhanyisa kupfuura vose anoda 9.6)

West African Gaboon viper yakakura sei kana yaenzaniswa NEWE?

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Inomhanya zvakadii?

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Chokwadi

1

Its nose has a pair of enlarged scales that look like a pair of horns.1

2

In Ghana and Togo, which are at the eastern edge of its range, it meets and interbreeds with the Gaboon viper B. gabonica.1

3

In 2022, residents of Ota in Nigeria reported sighting one, which extended its known range to include Nigeria.1

Kune nyanzvi dzeuturu

Zita resainzi
Bitis rhinoceros
Boka
Mavhaipa nemaadder
Mhuri
Viperidae2
Odha
Squamata
Makondinendi
Afrika
Ngozi kuvanhu
4 / 5: Ine ngozi zvikuru3

Kwakabva chokwadi

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

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