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Greek meadow viper

Vipera graeca
Ka lebitso: It is named after the Greek mountain meadows where it lives.1
E utlwisa bohloko feelaE a utlwisa bohloko, empa e ke ke ya o lematsa haholo.
Di-viper le di-adder Ho lomaE ja: Dikokoanyana
Kotsi ho batho: E bohlokoE ka utlwisa bohloko haholo, empa hoo e batlang e le kamehla ha e kotsi haholo.

The Greek meadow viper is a small venomous snake that lives in mountain meadows in Albania and Greece. It was once thought to be a type of meadow viper, but scientists now see it as its own species. Its bite is venomous, so it is important to know what it looks like.1

E phela
Albania and Greece, mainly in the Hellenides and Pindos mountain ranges1
Yuropa
Lapeng
It lives in grassy mountain meadows at high elevations, between 1,600 and 2,300 metres. The limestone ground there is grassy and has shrubs, and most sightings have been near these shrubs.1
Bolelele
44 cm (1,4 ft)1
Lebelo le phahameng
e ka bang 3,2 km/h (2 mph)
Naheng, kakanyo feela
E ja eng?
It eats mainly insects, especially grasshoppers and crickets from the Orthoptera group. Wing-buzzing grasshoppers, bush crickets and wart-biters are its most common prey.1
Ka nnete!Foto ya Greek meadow viper
Greek meadow viper. Foto: Konstantinos Kalaentzis. CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons.

Ho e tseba jwang

  • Small body, with a maximum snout-vent length of about 40 to 44 cm, depending on sex. Females are larger.1
  • Maximum tail length of about 4 to 5 cm. Males have longer tails.1
  • Dark spots are absent from the sides and top of the head, except for stripes behind the eyes and at the back of the head.1
  • White or brownish-grey underside.1
  • A sharp zigzag pattern along the back. Some males and young show a faint similarity to the meadow viper.1

Hangata e ferekanngwa le: It is often compared with the meadow viper (Vipera ursinii), which it closely resembles. The Greek viper has no dark spots on the head sides or top, apart from the head stripes, and it has different scale counts. Some males and juveniles show faint pattern similarities.1

Matla a chefo

Ho loma

Chefo e tswa ka meno a yona a chefo (fangs) kapa ka meno a mang ha e loma.

E kotsi hakae ho batho?

Kotsi ho batho: E bohlokoE ka utlwisa bohloko haholo, empa hoo e batlang e le kamehla ha e kotsi haholo.

Haeba e loma

  • Boloka motho a sa sisinyehe ebile a kgutsitse, boloka setho se lomilweng se lekana le bophahamo ba pelo, tlosa mesale le dintho tse tiileng, mme o mo ise sepetlele kapele.

Kamehla letsetsa nomoro ya tshohanyetso pele (112, 000, 911). Ena ke tataiso e akaretsang ya thuso ya pele, hase keletso ya bongaka. Metheo ya thuso ya pele

Dula o bolokehile

  • O se ke wa ama, wa tshwara kapa wa tena phoofolo ya naheng, leha e le e nyenyane, le leha e shebahala e robetse kapa e shwele.
  • E fe sebaka. Ha o kopana le yona, dula o kgutsitse, kgutlela morao butle mme o e tlohele e tsamaye ka tsela ya yona.
  • Haeba e nngwe e o loma: dula o kgutsitse, o se ke wa sisinyeha, letsetsa nomoro ya tshohanyetso (112, 000, 911) kapa o ye sepetlele kapele. Hopola hore e ne e shebahala jwang, foto e a thusa.

Ha e o batle. E sebedisa chefo ya yona ho tshwara dijo kapa ho itshireletsa, mme e kgetha ho ipata. Ho eketsehileng ka ho dula o bolokehile

E kgolo hakae?

E telele hakae?

Greek meadow viper bolelele ba e ka bang 44 cm (1,4 ft)Banana e ka bang 18 cm (7,1 in)Katse ya lapeng e ka bang 50 cm (1,6 ft)
e telele jwaloka dibanana tse 2,5 tse latellanange telele jwaloka diboloko tsa ho bapala tse 14 molenge ka matha metara e 100 ka metsotswana e 110 (motho ya potlakang ka ho fetisisa o hloka 9,6)

Greek meadow viper e kgolo hakae ha e bapiswa le WENA?

Ke dipalo feela ka hara sebatli sa hao. Ha ho letho le bolokwang kapa le romelwang kae kapa kae.

E potlaka hakae?

ho molemo ho tseba

Dintlha

1

The red fox, common kestrel and short-toed snake eagle are the only known predators of this viper.1

2

It is most common at high elevations, where annual temperatures average about 6 °C and snow lies until summer.1

3

Scientists were not sure it was a separate species until 2012, when DNA analysis showed it was its own species.1

Bakeng sa ditsebi tsa chefo

Lebitso la saense
Vipera graeca
Sehlopha
Di-viper le di-adder
Lelapa
Viperidae2
Tatelano
Squamata
Dikontinente
Yuropa
Masea
It is ovoviviparous, meaning the eggs hatch inside the mother, and she gives birth to live young.1
Kotsi ho batho
2 / 5: E bohloko3

Moo dintlha di tswang teng

  1. Vipera graeca (Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0))
  2. Vipera graeca (iNaturalist): mabitso le tlhophiso.
  3. Venom Wiki: boemo ba kotsi, boholo bo tlwaelehileng le kakanyo ya lebelo ke tsa rona. Bona kamoo re di balang ka teng: Kamoo re lekanyang kotsi ka teng.

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