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Whitetail lancehead

Bothrops leucurus
Nezvezita: Its scientific name, leucurus, comes from Latin words meaning 'white' and 'tail'.1
Inogona kuurayaInogona kukuuraya kana usina kurapwa. Kana ikakuruma, wana rubatsiro nokukurumidza.
Mapit viper InorumaInodya: Nyama
Ngozi kuvanhu: Ine ngozi zvikuruInogona kuuraya munhu asina kurapwa.

The whitetail lancehead is a venomous pit viper, a snake that has heat-sensing pits between its eyes and nostrils. It lives only in Brazil, where it is found in forests and in both towns and countryside. It matters because it causes more snake bites in the state of Bahia than any other snake.1

Inogara mu
Endemic to Brazil: eastern coast from northern Espírito Santo to Alagoas and Ceará, and inland in parts of Bahia1
Amerika yeKumaodzanyemba
Kumba
It lives in forests and in arid, semi-arid, dry, humid and sub-humid regions. It is found in both urban and rural areas, so people can meet it close to homes.1
Kureba
25 cm kusvika 1,8 m (9,8 in kusvika 6 ft)1
Kumhanya kukuru
kunenge 3,9 km/h (2,4 mph)
Pasi pevhu, kufungidzira
Inodya chii?
It eats rodents, lizards, amphibians, snakes and birds. Adults mostly eat rodents, while young snakes mostly eat frogs and lizards.1
Chaizvo!Mufananidzo waWhitetail lancehead
Whitetail lancehead. Mufananidzo: No machine-readable author provided. Danleo~commonswiki assumed (based on copyright claims).. CC BY 2.5, Wikimedia Commons.

Maziviro ayo

  • Colour ranges from tan to reddish-brown.1
  • The pattern varies, with darker and lighter spots or light diagonal lines along the sides.1
  • The belly is yellowish or whitish, with dark brown or grey spots and irregular spots on the sides.1
  • It has 23 to 31 rows of scales along the middle of the body.1
  • It is a terrestrial snake, so it lives on the ground.1

Simba reuturu

Inoruma

Uturu hunobuda nemeno ayo painoruma.

Uturu hwayo hunoitei?

The venom is haemotoxic, meaning it attacks blood and tissue. It breaks down blood clots, damages tissue and causes bleeding, and it can cause muscle death (myonecrosis) in people. Symptoms include local pain, swelling, redness and bruising, bleeding and clotting problems, nausea, vomiting and diarrhoea, urinary problems, headaches, dizziness, low blood pressure, a slow heartbeat, visual disturbances and tremors.1

Ine ngozi yakadii kuvanhu?

Ngozi kuvanhu: Ine ngozi zvikuruInogona kuuraya munhu asina kurapwa.

It is responsible for the most snake bites in the state of Bahia, Brazil.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?

Whitetail lancehead kunenge 1,8 m kureba (6 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 10 akateedzanainogona kumhanya mamita 100 mumasekondi 92 (munhu anomhanyisa kupfuura vose anoda 9.6)

Whitetail lancehead yakakura sei kana yaenzaniswa NEWE?

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

Inomhanya zvakadii?

zvakanaka kuziva

Chokwadi

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It is one of the snakes responsible for the most bites in Bahia, Brazil.1

2

It gives birth to live young rather than laying eggs.1

Kune nyanzvi dzeuturu

Zita resainzi
Bothrops leucurus
Boka
Mapit viper
Mhuri
Viperidae2
Odha
Squamata
Makondinendi
Amerika yeKumaodzanyemba
Vacheche
It gives birth to live young after a gestation period of four months, with a typical litter of 19 young, born between winter and summer.1
Ngozi kuvanhu
4 / 5: Ine ngozi zvikuru3

Kwakabva chokwadi

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

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