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West African Gaboon viper

Bitis rhinoceros
E ka bolayaE ka o bolaya ntle le kalafo. Ha e ka o loma, fumana thuso kapele.
Di-viper le di-adder Ho loma
Kotsi ho batho: E kotsi haholoE ka bolaya motho ya sa fumaneng kalafo.

The West African Gaboon viper is a venomous snake with a pair of enlarged scales on its nose that look like horns. It lives in West Africa, in countries such as Ghana, Ivory Coast, Liberia and Sierra Leone. Like all vipers, it can bite and inject venom.1

E phela
West Africa, from Togo west to Guinea, possibly Guinea-Bissau, and reported in Ota, Ogun State, Nigeria1
Afrika
Bolelele
1,2 m (3,9 ft)3
boholo bo tlwaelehileng ba e hodileng
Lebelo le phahameng
e ka bang 3,9 km/h (2,4 mph)
Naheng, kakanyo feela
Ka nnete!Foto ya West African Gaboon viper
West African Gaboon viper. Foto: Hectonichus. CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons.

Ho e tseba jwang

  • Has a distinctive pair of enlarged nasal scales that look like horns on its nose.1
  • The dark triangular marking running from the eye back towards the corner of the mouth is not divided.1
  • Its head is broader than that of its close relative B. nasicornis.1
  • Overall it is somewhat larger than B. gabonica.1

Hangata e ferekanngwa le: The close relative B. nasicornis also has horn-like nasal scales, but it has a brighter colour pattern and a narrower head. B. gabonica is overall somewhat smaller, and in B. g. gabonica the dark marking from the eye to the mouth is divided, which it is not in this snake.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 kotsi haholoE ka bolaya motho ya sa fumaneng kalafo.

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?

West African Gaboon viper bolelele ba e ka bang 1,2 m (3,9 ft)Ntja e ka bang 1 m (3,3 ft)Motho e moholo e ka bang 1,7 m (5,6 ft)
e telele jwaloka dikatse tsa lapeng tse 2,5 ho tloha nkong ho isa mohatlenge telele jwaloka dibanana tse 7 tse latellanange ka matha metara e 100 ka metsotswana e 92 (motho ya potlakang ka ho fetisisa o hloka 9,6)

West African Gaboon 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 nose has a pair of enlarged scales that look like a pair of horns.1

2

In Ghana and Togo, which are at the eastern edge of its range, it meets and interbreeds with the Gaboon viper B. gabonica.1

3

In 2022, residents of Ota in Nigeria reported sighting one, which extended its known range to include Nigeria.1

Bakeng sa ditsebi tsa chefo

Lebitso la saense
Bitis rhinoceros
Sehlopha
Di-viper le di-adder
Lelapa
Viperidae2
Tatelano
Squamata
Dikontinente
Afrika
Kotsi ho batho
4 / 5: E kotsi haholo3

Moo dintlha di tswang teng

  1. Bitis rhinoceros (Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0))
  2. Bitis rhinoceros (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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