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Grey snake

Hemiaspis damelii
Ka lebitso: The specific name damelii honours German entomologist Edward Dämel, who collected Australian specimens for Museum Godeffroy.1
E utlwisa bohloko feelaE a utlwisa bohloko, empa e ke ke ya o lematsa haholo.
Dinoha tsa Australia Ho lomaE ja: Nama
Kotsi ho batho: E bohlokoE ka utlwisa bohloko haholo, empa hoo e batlang e le kamehla ha e kotsi haholo.

The grey snake is a small venomous snake found in eastern Australia. It hunts at night, mostly for frogs. It is endangered, and scientists have seen it only a handful of times in the last 65 years.1

E phela
Eastern Australia, from central inland New South Wales to the interior of south-eastern Queensland1
Australia le Oceania
Lapeng
It favours dry sclerophyll forests and woodlands on clay soils, where water bodies or gullies are present. It shelters under rocks, logs and other debris, and in cracks in the soil.1
Bolelele
43 cm ho isa ho 60 cm (1,4 ft ho isa ho 2 ft)1
Lebelo le phahameng
e ka bang 6,1 km/h (3,8 mph)
Naheng, kakanyo feela
E ja eng?
It eats mostly terrestrial frogs (anurans). It rarely eats some scincid lizards. It hunts at night, around sunset, for one to two hours.1
Ka nnete!Foto ya Grey snake
Grey snake. Foto: dhfischer. CC BY 4.0, iNaturalist.

Ho e tseba jwang

  • Olive to grey on the back, with a white to yellowish white belly often flecked with dark grey.1
  • In some grey snakes, the scales on the flanks are tipped with black.1
  • Juveniles have a distinctive black head, which fades or sometimes disappears as the snake matures.1
  • Adults are relatively small, with an average snout-vent length of about 50 cm. Males are slightly larger than females.1

Matla a chefo

Ho loma

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

Chefo ya yona (eo e e kenyang ka ho loma kapa ho hlaba) e etsang?

Its venom is fairly mild. It contains procoagulants, which are substances that make blood clot. The venom causes local pain and swelling around the bite.1

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.

The venom is unlikely to cause death in humans. However, a bite from a larger snake may be very painful.1

Haeba e loma

  • Pressure immobilisation: phuthela bandeje e tiileng e huduhang (elastiki) hodima moo e lomileng teng ebe o nyolla setho sohle, o se tlame ka splint (lepolanka la ho se tshehetsa), mme o boloke motho a sa sisinyehe ho hang ho fihlela thuso e fihla.
  • O se ke wa hlatswa moo e lomileng teng: dipetlele di ka hlahloba chefo e setseng letlalong ho kgetha antivenom e nepahetseng.

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?

Grey snake bolelele ba e ka bang 60 cm (2 ft)Katse ya lapeng e ka bang 50 cm (1,6 ft)Ntja e ka bang 1 m (3,3 ft)
e telele jwaloka dibanana tse 3 tse latellanange ka matha metara e 100 ka metsotswana e 59 (motho ya potlakang ka ho fetisisa o hloka 9,6)

Grey snake 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

It has been seen only a handful of times in the past 65 years.1

2

Recent floods in New South Wales helped researchers find 30 individual snakes.1

3

Its litter size is linked to the size of the mother, with larger females having more young.1

4

Newborns take an average of 12 months to mature after birth.1

Bakeng sa ditsebi tsa chefo

Lebitso la saense
Hemiaspis damelii
Sehlopha
Dinoha tsa Australia
Lelapa
Elapidae2
Tatelano
Squamata
Dikontinente
Australia le Oceania
Masea
It gives birth to live young, born fully formed, with 4 to 16 young per litter. Breeding takes place from January to March.1
Boemo ba yona naheng
Endangered1
Kotsi ho batho
2 / 5: E bohloko3

Moo dintlha di tswang teng

  1. Hemiaspis damelii (Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0))
  2. Hemiaspis damelii (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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