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Whitetail lancehead

Bothrops leucurus

Ka lebitso: Its scientific name, leucurus, comes from Latin words meaning 'white' and 'tail'.1

E ka bolayaE ka o bolaya ntle le kalafo. Ha e ka o loma, fumana thuso kapele.

Di-pit viper

Ho lomaE ja: Nama

Kotsi ho batho: E kotsi haholoE ka bolaya motho ya sa fumaneng kalafo.

The whitetail lancehead is a venomous pit viper, a snake that has heat-sensing pits between its eyes and nostrils. It lives only in Brazil, where it is found in forests and in both towns and countryside. It matters because it causes more snake bites in the state of Bahia than any other snake.1

E phela

Endemic to Brazil: eastern coast from northern Espírito Santo to Alagoas and Ceará, and inland in parts of Bahia1

Amerika Borwa

Lapeng

It lives in forests and in arid, semi-arid, dry, humid and sub-humid regions. It is found in both urban and rural areas, so people can meet it close to homes.1

Bolelele

25 cm ho isa ho 1,8 m (9,8 in ho isa ho 6 ft)1

Lebelo le phahameng

e ka bang 3,9 km/h (2,4 mph)

Naheng, kakanyo feela

E ja eng?

It eats rodents, lizards, amphibians, snakes and birds. Adults mostly eat rodents, while young snakes mostly eat frogs and lizards.1

Foto ya Whitetail lancehead — Whitetail lancehead. Foto: No machine-readable author provided. Danleo~commonswiki assumed (based on copyright claims).. CC BY 2.5, Wikimedia Commons.

Ho e tseba jwang

Colour ranges from tan to reddish-brown.1
The pattern varies, with darker and lighter spots or light diagonal lines along the sides.1
The belly is yellowish or whitish, with dark brown or grey spots and irregular spots on the sides.1
It has 23 to 31 rows of scales along the middle of the body.1
It is a terrestrial snake, so it lives on the ground.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?

The venom is haemotoxic, meaning it attacks blood and tissue. It breaks down blood clots, damages tissue and causes bleeding, and it can cause muscle death (myonecrosis) in people. Symptoms include local pain, swelling, redness and bruising, bleeding and clotting problems, nausea, vomiting and diarrhoea, urinary problems, headaches, dizziness, low blood pressure, a slow heartbeat, visual disturbances and tremors.1

E kotsi hakae ho batho?

Kotsi ho batho: E kotsi haholoE ka bolaya motho ya sa fumaneng kalafo.

It is responsible for the most snake bites in the state of Bahia, Brazil.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

Hokae lefatsheng?

Afrika Asia Yuropa Amerika Leboya Amerika Borwa Australia le Oceania

E kgolo hakae?

E telele hakae?

e telele jwaloka dikatse tsa lapeng tse 4 ho tloha nkong ho isa mohatlenge telele jwaloka dibanana tse 10 tse latellanange ka matha metara e 100 ka metsotswana e 92 (motho ya potlakang ka ho fetisisa o hloka 9,6)

Whitetail lancehead 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?

Kgudu e ka bang 0,3 km/h (0,19 mph)

Whitetail lancehead e ka bang 3,9 km/h (2,4 mph)

Motho ya tsamayang e ka bang 5 km/h (3,1 mph)

ho molemo ho tseba

Dintlha

It is one of the snakes responsible for the most bites in Bahia, Brazil.1

It gives birth to live young rather than laying eggs.1

Bakeng sa ditsebi tsa chefo

Lebitso la saense: Bothrops leucurus
Sehlopha: Di-pit viper
Lelapa: Viperidae2
Tatelano: Squamata
Dikontinente: Amerika Borwa
Masea: It gives birth to live young after a gestation period of four months, with a typical litter of 19 young, born between winter and summer.1
Kotsi ho batho: 4 / 5: E kotsi haholo3

Moo dintlha di tswang teng

Bothrops leucurus (Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0))
Bothrops leucurus (iNaturalist): mabitso le tlhophiso.
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