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Brazilian coral snake

Micrurus decoratus
Anahitaji daktariMara chache huua, lakini kuumwa kunahitaji daktari.
Nyoka wa matumbawe KuumwaHula: Nyama
Hatari kwa watu: MbayaKuumwa kunahitaji daktari. Vifo ni nadra sana.

The Brazilian coral snake is a venomous snake that lives in the Atlantic Forest of southeastern Brazil. Its bright red, white and black rings warn predators that it is dangerous. It spends much of its time underground and in leaf litter.1

Anaishi
Atlantic Forest of southeastern and southern Brazil1
Amerika Kusini
Nyumbani
It is terrestrial and fossorial, so it lives on the ground and digs or forages underground. It searches through leaf litter on the forest floor.1
Urefu
60 cm (2 ft)3
ukubwa wa kawaida wa mnyama mzima
Kasi ya juu
takriban km 4.8 kwa saa (maili 3 kwa saa)
Nchi kavu, makadirio
Hula nini?
It mainly eats caecilians and amphisbaenians, which are long, limbless animals. In its restricted range in southeastern and southern Brazil, these are the prey it was found to take.1
Kweli kabisa!Picha ya Brazilian coral snake
Brazilian coral snake. Picha: Shiva Pires. CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons.

Jinsi ya kumtambua

  • Alternating red, white and black colour pattern, arranged in rings1
  • Black and white rings form 13 to 19 body triads (groups of three rings)1
  • Black rings are narrower than the red rings1
  • The central black ring of each triad is usually the widest1
  • The first triad at the neck is incomplete1

Nguvu ya sumu

Kuumwa

Sumu hutoka kupitia meno yake ya sumu au meno anapouma.

Ana hatari gani kwa watu?

Hatari kwa watu: MbayaKuumwa kunahitaji daktari. Vifo ni nadra sana.

Hufanya nini akiogopa?

Its bright colours are the first warning. If a threat continues, it raises its tail, moves it back and forth, and flattens its body from top to bottom to look larger.1

Akiuma

  • Mweke mtu bila kutikisika na mtulivu na umpeleke hospitali haraka, hata kama jeraha linaonekana dogo: dalili zinaweza kuanza saa kadhaa baadaye.

Daima piga namba ya dharura kwanza (112, 000, 911). Huu ni mwongozo wa jumla wa huduma ya kwanza, si ushauri wa kitabibu. Misingi ya huduma ya kwanza

Kaa salama

  • Kamwe usimguse, kumkamata wala kumchokoza mnyama wa porini, hata akiwa mdogo, na hata akionekana amelala au amekufa.
  • Mpe nafasi. Ukikutana naye, tulia, rudi nyuma polepole na umwache aende zake.
  • Akikuuma: tulia, usitikisike, piga namba yako ya dharura (112, 000, 911) au nenda hospitali haraka. Kumbuka alivyoonekana, picha husaidia.

Hakuwindi wewe. Hutumia sumu yake kukamata chakula au kujilinda, na hupendelea zaidi kujificha. Zaidi kuhusu kukaa salama

Ana ukubwa gani?

Ana urefu gani?

Brazilian coral snake urefu wa takriban 60 cm (2 ft)Paka wa nyumbani takriban 50 cm (1.6 ft)Mbwa takriban 1 m (3.3 ft)
urefu sawa na ndizi 3 zilizopangwa mstariangeweza kukimbia mita 100 kwa sekunde 75 (binadamu mwenye kasi zaidi anahitaji 9.6)

Brazilian coral snake ana ukubwa gani ukilinganisha na WEWE?

Ni hesabu tu kwenye kivinjari chako. Hakuna kinachohifadhiwa wala kutumwa popote.

Ana kasi gani?

inafaa kujua

Ukweli

1

When threatened, it flattens its body from top to bottom to look bigger than it is.1

2

Its bright red, white and black rings are a warning signal that it is venomous.1

3

In its range, it was found to feed only on caecilians and amphisbaenians.1

Kwa wataalamu wa sumu

Jina la kisayansi
Micrurus decoratus
Kundi
Nyoka wa matumbawe
Familia
Elapidae2
Mpangilio
Squamata
Mabara
Amerika Kusini
Watoto
It lays eggs.1
Hatari kwa watu
3 / 5: Mbaya3

Ukweli unatoka wapi

  1. Brazilian coral snake (Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0))
  2. Micrurus decoratus (iNaturalist): majina na uainishaji.
  3. Venom Wiki: kiwango cha hatari, ukubwa wa kawaida na makadirio ya kasi ni yetu wenyewe. Ona jinsi tunavyovipata: Jinsi tunavyopima hatari.

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