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Cape cobra

Naja nivea
Ka ga leina: Naja comes from a Sanskrit word meaning 'cobra', and nivea comes from Latin words meaning 'snow' or 'snow-white'.1
E a bolayaNngwe ya diphologolo tse di bolayang go gaisa mo Lefatsheng. Fa e go loma, bitsa thuso ka yone nako eo.Thuso ya bonako le antivenom di pholosa batho ba bantsi. Leletsa nomoro ya gago ya tshoganyetso ka yone nako eo.
Dikobra, dimamba le dikrait Go lomaE ja: Nama
Kotsi go batho: E a bolayaNngwe ya diphologolo tse di kotsi go gaisa mo lefatsheng.

The Cape cobra is a medium-sized, highly venomous cobra. It lives in many kinds of land across southern Africa, and it often comes close to people. It is regarded as one of the most dangerous cobras in all of Africa.1

E tshela kwa
Southern Africa: mainly South Africa, plus southern Namibia, south-west Botswana and western Lesotho1
Aforika
Gae
It lives in fynbos, bushveld, karoo scrubland, arid savanna and deserts. It often uses rodent burrows, abandoned termite mounds and rock crevices. It also enters villages, suburbs of Cape Town and houses, where it may shelter from the heat or hunt rodents.1
Boleele
1,2 m go ya go 1,6 m (3,9 ft go ya go 5,2 ft)1
Lebelo le le kwa godimo
e ka nna 7,5 km/h (4,7 mph)
Mo lefatsheng, kakanyo fela
E ja eng?
It is a feeding generalist that eats other snakes, rodents, lizards, birds and carrion. It is also well known for raiding the nests of sociable weavers, and it can be cannibalistic, sometimes eating the young of its own kind.1
Ka nnete!Setshwantsho sa Cape cobra
Cape cobra. Setshwantsho: Marius Burger. CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons.

Tsela ya go e lemoga

  • Colour ranges from yellow through golden brown and dark brown to black.1
  • Many individuals have black or pale stippling and blotches.1
  • Juveniles have a dark throat that continues down the belly.1
  • Adults are typically 1.2 to 1.4 m long.1
  • When threatened, it raises the front of its body and spreads a broad hood.1

Gantsi e tlhakanngwa le: Juvenile Cape cobras have dark throats, which often leads people to confuse them with the rinkhals, a spitting cobra. The dark throat fades during the first year or two of life.1

Maatla a botlhole

Go loma

Botlhole bo tswa ka meno a yone fa e loma.

Botlhole jo e bo tsenyang bo dira eng?

Its venom is thick and syrupy, and contains potent neurotoxins that act on the nerves, and possibly cardiotoxins that affect the heart. The venom can affect the respiratory system, nervous system and heart. When death occurs, it normally takes one to ten hours, or more, and is often caused by respiratory failure due to paralysis.1

E kotsi go le kae go batho?

Kotsi go batho: E a bolayaNngwe ya diphologolo tse di kotsi go gaisa mo lefatsheng.

It is regarded as one of the most dangerous cobras in Africa because of its potent venom and its frequent presence around houses. The mortality rate for untreated bites is not exactly known, but is thought to be high, around 50%. Outcomes depend on factors such as the amount of venom injected and the bitten person's state of mind.1

Dikgang tse di molemo: dingaka di na le molemo (antivenom) kgotsa kalafi ya se.1

E dira eng fa e tshogile?

When threatened, it raises its forebody, spreads a broad hood, may hiss loudly and strikes readily.1

Fa e loma

  • Mechanical ventilation (a machine that helps the person breathe) and symptom management are often enough to save a life. Serious cases need antivenom, which is a polyvalent antivenom produced by the South African Institute of Medical Research.1
  • Dira gore motho a nne a sa tshikinyege a ritibetse, tlosa direng le dilo tse di tiileng, mme o mo ise bookelong ka bonako: antivenom ke yone kalafi.

Ka gale leletsa nomoro ya gago ya tshoganyetso pele (112, 000, 911). Se ke kaelo e e akaretsang ya thuso ya ntlha, ga se kgakololo ya bongaka. Motheo wa thuso ya ntlha

Nna o babalesegile

  • O se ka wa ama, wa tshwara kgotsa wa tshwenya phologolo ya naga, le fa e le e nnye, le fa e lebega e robetse kgotsa e sule.
  • E fe sebaka. Fa o kopana le yone, ritibala, boela morago ka bonya mme o e tlogele e tsamaye ka tsela ya yone.
  • Fa e nngwe e go loma: ritibala, o se ka wa tshikinyega, leletsa nomoro ya gago ya tshoganyetso (112, 000, 911) kgotsa o ye bookelong ka bonako. Gopola gore e ne e lebega jang, setshwantsho se a thusa.

Ga e go batle. E dirisa botlhole jwa yone go tshwara dijo kgotsa go itshireletsa, mme e rata go iphitlha go feta. Go le gontsi ka go nna o babalesegile

E kgolo go le kae?

E telele go le kae?

Cape cobra e ka nna 1,6 m ka boleele (5,2 ft)Ntša e ka nna 1 m (3,3 ft)Motho yo mogolo e ka nna 1,7 m (5,6 ft)
boleele jo bo lekanang le dikatse tsa ntlo di le 3 go tloga kwa nkong go ya mogatlengboleele jo bo lekanang le dipanana di le 9 di latelanae ka taboga dimetara di le 100 ka metsotswana e le 48 (motho yo o bonako go gaisa o tlhoka 9,6)

Cape cobra e kgolo go le kae fa e bapisiwa le WENA?

Ke dipalo fela mo sefetleng sa gago (browser). Ga go sepe se se bolokwang kgotsa se se romelwang gope.

E bonako go le kae?

go botlhokwa go itse

Dintlha

1

Its venom dries into shiny pale flakes that look like yellow sugar.1

2

Meerkats and some mongooses prey on it and have a low susceptibility to its venom.1

3

It is a good climber and can climb trees and bushes.1

4

The longest recorded specimen was a male from Aus, Namibia, measuring 1.88 m.1

Ya baitseanape ba botlhole

Leina la saense
Naja nivea
Setlhopha
Dikobra, dimamba le dikrait
Lelapa
Elapidae2
Lekoko
Squamata
Dikontinente
Aforika
Masea
It lays eggs, between 8 and 20 per clutch in midsummer, and the hatchlings are completely independent from birth.1
Kotsi go batho
5 / 5: E a bolaya3

Kwa dintlha di tswang teng

  1. Cape cobra (Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0))
  2. Naja nivea (iNaturalist): maina le thulaganyo ya mefuta.
  3. Venom Wiki: seelo sa kotsi, bogolo jo bo tlwaelegileng le kakanyo ya lebelo ke tsa rona. Bona kafa re di balang ka teng: Kafa re lekanyang kotsi ka teng.

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