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Large-scaled pit viper

Craspedocephalus macrolepis
E tlhoka ngakaGa e bolaye gantsi, mme go lomiwa ke yone go tlhoka ngaka.
Divaepara tsa mesima (pit vipers) Go lomaE ja: Nama
Kotsi go batho: E masisiGo lomiwa ke yone go tlhoka ngaka. Go swa go seoka thata.

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

E tshela kwa
Mountains of the southern Western Ghats, Kerala and Tamil Nadu states, South India1
Asia
Gae
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
Boleele
68 cm (2,2 ft)1
Lebelo le le kwa godimo
e ka nna 3,4 km/h (2,1 mph)
Mo lefatsheng, kakanyo fela
E ja eng?
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
Ka nnete!Setshwantsho sa Large-scaled pit viper
Large-scaled pit viper. Setshwantsho: Uaijth. CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons.

Tsela ya go e lemoga

  • 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

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 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

E kotsi go le kae go batho?

Kotsi go batho: E masisiGo lomiwa ke yone go tlhoka ngaka. Go swa go seoka thata.

Tea pickers are frequently bitten by this species, but the bites are seldom 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?

AforikaAsiaYuropaAmerika BokoneAmerika BorwaAustralia le Oceania

E kgolo go le kae?

E telele go le kae?

Large-scaled pit viper e ka nna 68 cm ka boleele (2,2 ft)Katse ya ntlo e ka nna 50 cm (1,6 ft)Ntša e ka nna 1 m (3,3 ft)
boleele jo bo lekanang le dipanana di le 4 di latelanae ka taboga dimetara di le 100 ka metsotswana e le 110 (motho yo o bonako go gaisa o tlhoka 9,6)

Large-scaled pit viper 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

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

Ya baitseanape ba botlhole

Leina la saense
Craspedocephalus macrolepis
Setlhopha
Divaepara tsa mesima (pit vipers)
Lelapa
Viperidae2
Lekoko
Squamata
Dikontinente
Asia
Masea
It lays eggs. Sexually mature females lay clutches of 4 to 7 eggs, usually in October.1
Kotsi go batho
3 / 5: E masisi3

Kwa dintlha di tswang teng

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