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Matilda's horned viper

Atheris matildae
Ka ga leina: It is named after Matilda, the daughter of Tim Davenport, who was the director of the Wildlife Conservation Society in Tanzania and was part of the team that discovered the snake.1
E tlhoka ngakaGa e bolaye gantsi, mme go lomiwa ke yone go tlhoka ngaka.
Divaepara le dibolobolo Go lomaE ja: Nama
Kotsi go batho: E masisiGo lomiwa ke yone go tlhoka ngaka. Go swa go seoka thata.

Matilda's horned viper is a tree-dwelling snake that lives only in the forests of Tanzania. It has bony horn-like points above its eyes, and it was only recorded by scientists in 2011. Its exact location is kept secret to protect it from the illegal pet trade.1

E tshela kwa
Endemic to Tanzania, in the Southern Highlands. It is found nowhere else.1
Aforika
Gae
It lives in the trees and bushes of forests, and it hunts near streams. The exact location where it was found is not published.1
Boleele
64 cm (2,1 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 is most likely a nocturnal ambush predator. It waits by streams at night to catch frogs.1

Tsela ya go e lemoga

  • It has two to three enlarged, horn-like structures above each eye.1
  • It is an arboreal forest viper, so it lives in trees and bushes.1
  • It can grow to a total length of 64.3 cm, which is large for a viper of its kind.1

Gantsi e tlhakanngwa le: It looks most like the Usambara bush viper (Atheris ceratophora), since both have horn-like structures above the eyes. Matilda's horned viper is larger, and the largest recorded Usambara bush viper measured 51.0 cm.1

Maatla a botlhole

Go loma

Botlhole bo tswa ka meno a yone fa e loma.

E kotsi go le kae go batho?

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

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

E kgolo go le kae?

E telele go le kae?

Matilda's horned viper e ka nna 64 cm ka boleele (2,1 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)

Matilda's horned 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

Its exact location has been withheld to protect it from being collected for the illegal pet trade.1

2

It was found during a biological survey in the Southern Highlands of Tanzania between 2010 and 2011.1

3

The scientists who described it have already set up a captive breeding colony.1

4

It is named after Matilda, the daughter of Tim Davenport, a member of the three-person team that discovered it.1

Ya baitseanape ba botlhole

Leina la saense
Atheris matildae
Setlhopha
Divaepara le dibolobolo
Lelapa
Viperidae2
Lekoko
Squamata
Dikontinente
Aforika
Kotsi go batho
3 / 5: E masisi3

Kwa dintlha di tswang teng

  1. Atheris matildae (Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0))
  2. Atheris matildae (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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