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Whitetail lancehead

Bothrops leucurus

Ka ga leina: Its scientific name, leucurus, comes from Latin words meaning 'white' and 'tail'.1

E ka bolayaE ka go bolaya fa o sa alafiwe. Fa e go loma, batla thuso ka bonako.

Divaepara tsa mesima (pit vipers)

Go lomaE ja: Nama

Kotsi go batho: E kotsi thataE ka bolaya motho yo o sa alafiweng.

The whitetail lancehead is a venomous pit viper, a snake that has heat-sensing pits between its eyes and nostrils. It lives only in Brazil, where it is found in forests and in both towns and countryside. It matters because it causes more snake bites in the state of Bahia than any other snake.1

E tshela kwa

Endemic to Brazil: eastern coast from northern Espírito Santo to Alagoas and Ceará, and inland in parts of Bahia1

Amerika Borwa

Gae

It lives in forests and in arid, semi-arid, dry, humid and sub-humid regions. It is found in both urban and rural areas, so people can meet it close to homes.1

Boleele

25 cm go ya go 1,8 m (9,8 in go ya go 6 ft)1

Lebelo le le kwa godimo

e ka nna 3,9 km/h (2,4 mph)

Mo lefatsheng, kakanyo fela

E ja eng?

It eats rodents, lizards, amphibians, snakes and birds. Adults mostly eat rodents, while young snakes mostly eat frogs and lizards.1

Setshwantsho sa Whitetail lancehead — Whitetail lancehead. Setshwantsho: No machine-readable author provided. Danleo~commonswiki assumed (based on copyright claims).. CC BY 2.5, Wikimedia Commons.

Tsela ya go e lemoga

Colour ranges from tan to reddish-brown.1
The pattern varies, with darker and lighter spots or light diagonal lines along the sides.1
The belly is yellowish or whitish, with dark brown or grey spots and irregular spots on the sides.1
It has 23 to 31 rows of scales along the middle of the body.1
It is a terrestrial snake, so it lives on the ground.1

Maatla a botlhole

Go loma

Botlhole bo tswa ka meno a yone fa e loma.

Botlhole jo e bo tsenyang bo dira eng?

The venom is haemotoxic, meaning it attacks blood and tissue. It breaks down blood clots, damages tissue and causes bleeding, and it can cause muscle death (myonecrosis) in people. Symptoms include local pain, swelling, redness and bruising, bleeding and clotting problems, nausea, vomiting and diarrhoea, urinary problems, headaches, dizziness, low blood pressure, a slow heartbeat, visual disturbances and tremors.1

E kotsi go le kae go batho?

Kotsi go batho: E kotsi thataE ka bolaya motho yo o sa alafiweng.

It is responsible for the most snake bites in the state of Bahia, Brazil.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?

Aforika Asia Yuropa Amerika Bokone Amerika Borwa Australia le Oceania

E kgolo go le kae?

E telele go le kae?

boleele jo bo lekanang le dikatse tsa ntlo di le 4 go tloga kwa nkong go ya mogatlengboleele jo bo lekanang le dipanana di le 10 di latelanae ka taboga dimetara di le 100 ka metsotswana e le 92 (motho yo o bonako go gaisa o tlhoka 9,6)

Whitetail 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?

Khudu e ka nna 0,3 km/h (0,19 mph)

Whitetail lancehead e ka nna 3,9 km/h (2,4 mph)

Motho yo o tsamayang e ka nna 5 km/h (3,1 mph)

go botlhokwa go itse

Dintlha

It is one of the snakes responsible for the most bites in Bahia, Brazil.1

It gives birth to live young rather than laying eggs.1

Ya baitseanape ba botlhole

Leina la saense: Bothrops leucurus
Setlhopha: Divaepara tsa mesima (pit vipers)
Lelapa: Viperidae2
Lekoko: Squamata
Dikontinente: Amerika Borwa
Masea: It gives birth to live young after a gestation period of four months, with a typical litter of 19 young, born between winter and summer.1
Kotsi go batho: 4 / 5: E kotsi thata3

Kwa dintlha di tswang teng

Bothrops leucurus (Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0))
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