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Red spitting cobra

Naja pallida

Anaweza kuuaAnaweza kukuua bila matibabu. Akikuuma au akikutemea sumu machoni, tafuta msaada haraka.

Swila, koboko na ngoshwe

Hunyunyiza au kutemaHula: Nyama

Hatari kwa watu: Hatari sanaAnaweza kumuua mtu asiyepata matibabu.

The red spitting cobra is a medium-sized cobra found in East Africa. When threatened, it can spray venom into an attacker's face, which can cause burning pain and blindness. It is often considered an attractive snake, usually bright salmon-red with a black throat band.1

Anaishi

East Africa, including Djibouti, Eritrea, Somalia, southern Egypt, Ethiopia, Tanzania, Sudan and Kenya1

Afrika

Nyumbani

It mainly lives in dry savanna and semidesert up to about 1,200 metres above sea level, and can usually be found near water holes. By day, adults hide in termite mounds, old logs, holes and brush piles. It is known to raid chickens in the region.1

Urefu

70 cm hadi 1.2 m (2.3 ft hadi 3.9 ft)1

Kasi ya juu

takriban km 6.8 kwa saa (maili 4.2 kwa saa)

Nchi kavu, makadirio

Hula nini?

It has a wide range of prey but prefers amphibians such as toads and frogs when they are available. It also eats rodents, birds and probably other snakes.1

Picha ya Red spitting cobra — Red spitting cobra. Picha: Steven G. Johnson. CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons.

Jinsi ya kumtambua

Usually bright salmon-red, with a broad black throat band and teardrop markings below the eyes1
Colour varies by region: specimens from southern Kenya and northern Tanzania are orange-red with a dark blue or black throat band1
The throat band often fades or disappears in larger adults, and true red specimens turn reddish-brown with age1
Adults typically measure 0.7 to 1.2 metres1
When threatened, it rears up, shows a cobra hood and hisses loudly1

Nguvu ya sumu

Hunyunyiza au kutema

Hunyunyiza au kutema kimiminika kinachowasha kwa washambulizi.

Sumu yake hufanya nini?

Its venom contains a mixture of neurotoxins, which attack the nerves, and cytotoxins, which damage cells. A bite causes slight pain around the wound and numbness of the lips, fingers and tongue. Venom sprayed into the eyes causes burning pain and can cause blindness.1

Ana hatari gani kwa watu?

Hatari kwa watu: Hatari sanaAnaweza kumuua mtu asiyepata matibabu.

It seldom causes human deaths, but survivors of its bites are usually left disfigured. In September 2011, a snake keeper from South Africa died shortly after venom was sprayed into his face while he was photographing the snake. The venom is thought to have entered his nasal passages and caused anaphylactic shock, a severe allergic reaction, and his asthma may have contributed.1

Hufanya nini akiogopa?

When threatened, it rears up, displays its hood and hisses loudly, and if the intruder does not retreat, it may spray venom at the face. In very rare cases it sprays without first rearing up.1

Akiuma au kutema

Mweke mtu bila kutikisika na mtulivu, ondoa pete na vitu vinavyobana, na umpeleke hospitali haraka: dawa ya kuzuia sumu ndiyo tiba.
Sumu ikitemewa machoni, yasafishe mara moja kwa maji mengi safi.

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 au akikutemea sumu machoni: 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?

Afrika Asia Ulaya Amerika Kaskazini Amerika Kusini Australia na Oceania

Ana ukubwa gani?

Ana urefu gani?

urefu sawa na paka wa nyumbani 2.5 kutoka pua hadi mkiaurefu sawa na ndizi 7 zilizopangwa mstariangeweza kukimbia mita 100 kwa sekunde 53 (binadamu mwenye kasi zaidi anahitaji 9.6)

Red spitting cobra ana ukubwa gani ukilinganisha na WEWE?

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

Ana kasi gani?

Mtu anayetembea takriban km 5 kwa saa (3.1 mph)

Red spitting cobra takriban km 6.8 kwa saa (4.2 mph)

Mtoto kwenye baiskeli takriban km 12 kwa saa (7.5 mph)

inafaa kujua

Ukweli

Young red spitting cobras spit more venom, relative to their body size, than adults do.1

It is thought to be cannibalistic, which may explain why adults are night-active and smaller snakes are day-active.1

Adults are mainly active at night, while juveniles are more active during the day.1

Kwa wataalamu wa sumu

Jina la kisayansi: Naja pallida
Kundi: Swila, koboko na ngoshwe
Familia: Elapidae2
Mpangilio: Squamata
Mabara: Afrika
Watoto: It lays eggs (it is oviparous), with a clutch of 6 to 21 eggs.1
Hatari kwa watu: 4 / 5: Hatari sana3

Ukweli unatoka wapi

Red spitting cobra (Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0))
Naja pallida (iNaturalist): majina na uainishaji.
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