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Many-horned adder

Bitis cornuta
E hloka ngakaHa e atise ho bolaya, empa ho longwa ho hloka ngaka.
Kotsi ho batho: E tebilengHo longwa ho hloka ngaka. Lefu le etsahala ka seoelo haholo.

The many-horned adder is a small, stout viper with tufts of horn-like scales above each eye. It lives in rocky desert areas and on mountain slopes in southern Africa. Like all vipers, it is venomous.1

E phela
Coastal southwest Namibia, western and southwest South Africa, with a few isolated populations in the eastern Cape1
Afrika
Lapeng
It prefers rocky desert areas with dwarf succulent veld and mountain slopes covered in heathland vegetation.1
Bolelele
30 cm ho isa ho 75 cm (1 ft ho isa ho 2,5 ft)1
Lebelo le phahameng
e ka bang 3,2 km/h (2 mph)
Naheng, kakanyo feela
Ka nnete!Foto ya Many-horned adder
Many-horned adder. Foto: Cape of Good Hope Association for Exploring Central Africa.; Curtis, Charles M.; Day & Haghe; Ford, G. H.; Great Britain.; Macleay, William Sharp; Smith, An. Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.

Ho e tseba jwang

  • Two to five raised, horn-like scales above each eye1
  • Grey to reddish-brown body with four rows of large, dark-brown blotches edged with white1
  • Blotches are squarish or parallelogram-shaped1
  • Whitish or tan underside, either plain or speckled with dark brown1
  • Dark markings on the top of the head may form an arrowhead1

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 tebilengHo longwa ho hloka ngaka. Lefu le etsahala ka seoelo haholo.

E etsang ha e tshohile?

When disturbed, it hisses loudly and strikes so energetically that most of its body is lifted off the ground.1

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?

Many-horned adder bolelele ba e ka bang 75 cm (2,5 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 4 tse latellanange ka matha metara e 100 ka metsotswana e 110 (motho ya potlakang ka ho fetisisa o hloka 9,6)

Many-horned adder 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

Its name comes from the tufts of horn-like scales above each eye.1

2

Despite its fierce display when disturbed, it usually settles down in captivity.1

3

The largest recorded specimen was a captive adder measuring 75 cm in total length.1

Bakeng sa ditsebi tsa chefo

Lebitso la saense
Bitis cornuta
Sehlopha
Di-viper le di-adder
Lelapa
Viperidae2
Tatelano
Squamata
Dikontinente
Afrika
Kotsi ho batho
3 / 5: E tebileng3

Moo dintlha di tswang teng

  1. Many-horned adder (Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0))
  2. Bitis cornuta (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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