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Large-scaled pit viper

Craspedocephalus macrolepis
Anahitaji daktariMara chache huua, lakini kuumwa kunahitaji daktari.
Nyoka wenye vishimo KuumwaHula: Nyama
Hatari kwa watu: MbayaKuumwa kunahitaji daktari. Vifo ni nadra sana.

The large-scaled pit viper is a venomous snake that lives only in the southern Western Ghats mountains of South India. It is a bright green tree-dweller that hunts at night from high, cool forest. Tea pickers meet it often, which is why it matters to people who work on those plantations.1

Anaishi
Mountains of the southern Western Ghats, Kerala and Tamil Nadu states, South India1
Asia
Nyumbani
It is a slow-moving, nocturnal snake that prefers rainforest. It is also found in tea, coffee and cardamom plantations, where tea pickers are frequently bitten.1
Urefu
68 cm (2.2 ft)1
Kasi ya juu
takriban km 3.4 kwa saa (maili 2.1 kwa saa)
Nchi kavu, makadirio
Hula nini?
It feeds mainly on frogs, lizards, small birds and rodents. It is an ambush hunter that relies on camouflage to catch prey, and uses heat-sensing pits on its face to find warm-blooded animals.1
Kweli kabisa!Picha ya Large-scaled pit viper
Large-scaled pit viper. Picha: Uaijth. CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons.

Jinsi ya kumtambua

  • Bright green on the back, sometimes with blackish skin between the scales1
  • A yellow or white stripe runs along each side of the body1
  • Pale green upper lips, and sometimes a black streak behind the eye1
  • Large, keeled, overlapping scales in 12 to 15 rows at the middle of the body1
  • Often active at night, moving through trees and on the ground with a prehensile tail that grips branches1

Nguvu ya sumu

Kuumwa

Sumu hutoka kupitia meno yake ya sumu au meno anapouma.

Sumu yake hufanya nini?

Its venom is presumed to be hemotoxic, meaning it is thought to act on the blood. This has not been studied thoroughly, so the details of its effects are not well known.1

Ana hatari gani kwa watu?

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

Tea pickers are frequently bitten by this species, but the bites are seldom fatal.1

Akiuma

  • Mweke mtu bila kutikisika na mtulivu, weka kiungo kilichoumwa usawa wa moyo, ondoa pete na vitu vinavyobana, na umpeleke hospitali haraka.

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?

Large-scaled pit viper urefu wa takriban 68 cm (2.2 ft)Paka wa nyumbani takriban 50 cm (1.6 ft)Mbwa takriban 1 m (3.3 ft)
urefu sawa na ndizi 4 zilizopangwa mstariangeweza kukimbia mita 100 kwa sekunde 110 (binadamu mwenye kasi zaidi anahitaji 9.6)

Large-scaled pit viper ana ukubwa gani ukilinganisha na WEWE?

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

Ana kasi gani?

inafaa kujua

Ukweli

1

It is a high-elevation specialist and is not normally recorded below 1200 m, with records between 1200 and 2695 m.1

2

It has an even number of dorsal scale rows, which is frequently found in this species but uncommon in snakes in general.1

Kwa wataalamu wa sumu

Jina la kisayansi
Craspedocephalus macrolepis
Kundi
Nyoka wenye vishimo
Familia
Viperidae2
Mpangilio
Squamata
Mabara
Asia
Watoto
It lays eggs. Sexually mature females lay clutches of 4 to 7 eggs, usually in October.1
Hatari kwa watu
3 / 5: Mbaya3

Ukweli unatoka wapi

  1. Craspedocephalus macrolepis (Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0))
  2. Craspedocephalus macrolepis (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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