Chocoan lancehead
The Chocoan lancehead is a venomous pitviper, a snake that injects venom with its bite. It lives in the wet forests of western Colombia, Panama, Ecuador and northern Peru. It matters because it can be large enough to deliver a fatal bite.1

Tsela ya go e lemoga
- Pale brown to greenish tan base colour with 16 to 22 pairs of darker brown blotches, each with pale edges1
- A dark brown cheek stripe, often bordered by a lighter band that can be orange or yellow1
- A cream to pale tan belly with brown spots1
- A long, lance-shaped head with exceptionally long fangs1
- A long tail ending in a rounded spine that may turn slightly upwards at the tip1
Maatla a botlhole
Botlhole bo tswa ka meno a yone fa e loma.
Botlhole jo e bo tsenyang bo dira eng?
Based on its size, it is probably capable of a fatal bite. It is not known to be common anywhere. One bite victim was treated in Medellín for acute renal failure, which means sudden kidney failure.1
E kotsi go le kae go batho?
Kotsi go batho: E kotsi thataE ka bolaya motho yo o sa alafiweng.Local experts rank it as one of the most dangerous snakes in the regions where it lives, alongside the common lancehead (Bothrops atrox). Its size means a bite may be fatal.1
Fa e loma
- Dira gore motho a nne a sa tshikinyege a ritibetse, tshegetsa setho se se lomilweng mo boemong jwa pelo, tlosa direng le dilo tse di tiileng, mme o mo ise bookelong ka bonako.
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
Kae mo lefatsheng?
E kgolo go le kae?
E telele go le kae?
boleele jo bo lekanang le dikatse tsa ntlo di le 2 go tloga kwa nkong go ya mogatleng
boleele jo bo lekanang le dipanana di le 6 di latelana
e ka taboga dimetara di le 100 ka metsotswana e le 95 (motho yo o bonako go gaisa o tlhoka 9,6)Chocoan lancehead 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?
Dintlha
Kwa dintlha di tswang teng
- Bothrops punctatus (Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0))
- Bothrops punctatus (iNaturalist): maina le thulaganyo ya mefuta.
- 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.
Ntlha nngwe le nngwe mo tsebeng e e na le nomoro e e supang motswedi wa yone. Fa re dirile phoso, maitshwarelo, re barati ba diphologolo, e seng kgatiso ya saense. Re bolelele kwa [email protected] mme re tla e baakanya.
Go loma