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Broad-headed snake

Hoplocephalus bungaroides
Anahitaji daktariMara chache huua, lakini kuumwa kunahitaji daktari.
Nyoka wa Australia KuumwaHula: Nyama
Hatari kwa watu: MbayaKuumwa kunahitaji daktari. Vifo ni nadra sana.

The broad-headed snake is a small to medium-sized venomous snake that lives only in the Sydney Basin in New South Wales, Australia. It is black with yellow markings and is rare today, so it is protected. It is easy to mistake for a young diamond python.1

Anaishi
Sydney Basin, New South Wales, Australia1
Australia na Oceania
Nyumbani
In the colder months, adults and young shelter in crevices in sandstone outcrops on exposed cliff edges. In spring, adult males and non-breeding females move to nearby woodlands and forests, and they use hollow trees in summer. Its rocky habitat is being lost to urbanisation and to rock removal for landscaping.1
Urefu
90 cm (3 ft)1
Kasi ya juu
takriban km 6.2 kwa saa (maili 3.9 kwa saa)
Nchi kavu, makadirio
Hula nini?
It feeds infrequently on small reptiles and mammals. Juveniles mostly eat Lesueur's velvet gecko and sometimes small skinks, while adults also eat other lizards, small snakes and mice.1
Kweli kabisa!Picha ya Broad-headed snake
Broad-headed snake. Picha: Lawrence Hylton. CC BY 4.0, iNaturalist.

Jinsi ya kumtambua

  • Black, with numerous irregular yellow markings arranged in narrow cross-bands.1
  • Small to medium-sized, averaging 60 cm in total length including the tail, though some records show lengths up to 90 cm.1
  • Often found on sandstone cliffs and rocks in the colder months, and in hollow trees in summer.1

Mara nyingi huchanganywa na: The young diamond python is superficially very similar and lives in the same habitat, so inexperienced people can easily confuse the two. In 2023, a man was bitten in the Southern Highlands of NSW after capturing a broad-headed snake he believed was a diamond python.1

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.

It is venomous and can bite. In 2023, a man was bitten after capturing one he believed was a diamond python to show his children.1

Akiuma

  • Kubana na kutotikisa: funga bandeji nyororo kwa nguvu juu ya jeraha kisha mguu au mkono mzima, weka banzi, na umweke mtu bila kutikisika kabisa hadi msaada ufike.
  • Usioshe mahali alipoumwa: hospitali inaweza kupima sumu iliyobaki kwenye ngozi ili kuchagua dawa sahihi ya kuzuia sumu.

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

Wapi duniani?

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Ana ukubwa gani?

Ana urefu gani?

Broad-headed snake urefu wa takriban 90 cm (3 ft)Paka wa nyumbani takriban 50 cm (1.6 ft)Mbwa takriban 1 m (3.3 ft)
urefu sawa na paka wa nyumbani 2 kutoka pua hadi mkiaurefu sawa na ndizi 5 zilizopangwa mstariangeweza kukimbia mita 100 kwa sekunde 58 (binadamu mwenye kasi zaidi anahitaji 9.6)

Broad-headed 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

In one documented case, a snake survived a fast lasting twelve months.1

2

Males take five years to reach maturity, and females take six.1

3

It was once common in parts of Sydney, including around Sydney Harbour.1

Kwa wataalamu wa sumu

Jina la kisayansi
Hoplocephalus bungaroides
Kundi
Nyoka wa Australia
Familia
Elapidae2
Mpangilio
Squamata
Mabara
Australia na Oceania
Watoto
It gives birth to live young, not eggs. Each litter has 4 to 12 offspring, born between January and April, and mature females produce a litter every two years.1
Hali yake porini
Endangered in New South Wales; Vulnerable under Commonwealth legislation1
Hatari kwa watu
3 / 5: Mbaya3

Ukweli unatoka wapi

  1. Broad-headed snake (Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0))
  2. Hoplocephalus bungaroides (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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