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Matilda's horned viper

Atheris matildae
Ka lebitso: It is named after Matilda, the daughter of Tim Davenport, who was the director of the Wildlife Conservation Society in Tanzania and was part of the team that discovered the snake.1
E hloka ngakaHa e atise ho bolaya, empa ho longwa ho hloka ngaka.
Di-viper le di-adder Ho lomaE ja: Nama
Kotsi ho batho: E tebilengHo longwa ho hloka ngaka. Lefu le etsahala ka seoelo haholo.

Matilda's horned viper is a tree-dwelling snake that lives only in the forests of Tanzania. It has bony horn-like points above its eyes, and it was only recorded by scientists in 2011. Its exact location is kept secret to protect it from the illegal pet trade.1

E phela
Endemic to Tanzania, in the Southern Highlands. It is found nowhere else.1
Afrika
Lapeng
It lives in the trees and bushes of forests, and it hunts near streams. The exact location where it was found is not published.1
Bolelele
64 cm (2,1 ft)1
Lebelo le phahameng
e ka bang 3,4 km/h (2,1 mph)
Naheng, kakanyo feela
E ja eng?
It is most likely a nocturnal ambush predator. It waits by streams at night to catch frogs.1

Ho e tseba jwang

  • It has two to three enlarged, horn-like structures above each eye.1
  • It is an arboreal forest viper, so it lives in trees and bushes.1
  • It can grow to a total length of 64.3 cm, which is large for a viper of its kind.1

Hangata e ferekanngwa le: It looks most like the Usambara bush viper (Atheris ceratophora), since both have horn-like structures above the eyes. Matilda's horned viper is larger, and the largest recorded Usambara bush viper measured 51.0 cm.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 tebilengHo longwa ho hloka ngaka. Lefu le etsahala ka seoelo 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

Hokae lefatsheng?

AfrikaAsiaYuropaAmerika LeboyaAmerika BorwaAustralia le Oceania

E kgolo hakae?

E telele hakae?

Matilda's horned viper bolelele ba e ka bang 64 cm (2,1 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)

Matilda's horned 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

Its exact location has been withheld to protect it from being collected for the illegal pet trade.1

2

It was found during a biological survey in the Southern Highlands of Tanzania between 2010 and 2011.1

3

The scientists who described it have already set up a captive breeding colony.1

4

It is named after Matilda, the daughter of Tim Davenport, a member of the three-person team that discovered it.1

Bakeng sa ditsebi tsa chefo

Lebitso la saense
Atheris matildae
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. Atheris matildae (Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0))
  2. Atheris matildae (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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