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Boomslang

Dispholidus typus

Ci turam: The name comes from Dutch and Afrikaans, meaning "tree snake": boom is "tree" and slang is "snake".1

Mën na reyMën na la rey su ñu la fajul. Su la màttee, wutal ndimbal ci gaaw.

Jaan yu am bëñ ci ginnaaw gémmiñ

Dafay màttDafay lekk: Yàpp

Musiba ci nit: Am na musiba loolMën na rey nit ku ñu fajul.

The boomslang is a highly venomous tree snake from Sub-Saharan Africa. It spends most of its time in trees and bushes, though it also hunts and shelters on the ground. Its venom works slowly, so a bite can look harmless at first and still be life-threatening.1

Dafay dund ci

Sub-Saharan Africa, from West Africa through Central and East Africa to much of Southern Africa1

Afrig

Kër

It lives mainly in forests but also in karoo shrubs, savannahs, lowland forests and grasslands. It is an excellent climber and is mostly found in trees, but it often hunts or shelters on the ground and sometimes hides underground in harsh weather.1

Guddaay

1 m ba 1,8 m (3,3 ft ba 6 ft)1

Diisaay

175 g ba 510 g (6 oz ba 1,1 lb)1

Gaawaay bu gën a kawe

lu tollu ci 6 km/h (3,7 mph)

Ci suuf, xalaat

Lan lay lekk?

It eats chameleons, other arboreal lizards, frogs, and occasionally small mammals, birds, and eggs from nests. It swallows its prey whole and will also eat other snakes, including members of its own species.1

Fotoy Boomslang — Boomslang. Foto: Miguel da Fonseca. CC0, Wikimedia Commons.

Ni ngay ko xàmmee

Adult males are light green with black or blue scale edges.1
Adult females are often brown.1
Very large eyes and a distinctive egg-shaped head.1
Average adults are 100 to 160 cm long, including the tail.1
Hatchlings: males are grey with blue speckles, females are pale brown.1

Kàttanu daŋar

Dafay màtt

Daŋar bi dafay génn ci bëñam yi su màttee.

Lan la daŋar biy sóob di def?

Its venom is mainly a haemotoxin, a type of venom that disrupts blood clotting. Many tiny clots form in the blood, causing bleeding in tissues such as muscle and the brain, while the small blood vessels become clogged. Symptoms include headache, nausea, sleepiness and confusion, and can lead to cardiac arrest and unconsciousness. Because the venom is slow-acting, symptoms may not appear until many hours after a bite.1

Ni mu lore nit ñi?

Musiba ci nit: Am na musiba loolMën na rey nit ku ñu fajul.

Bites can be fatal. Of eight serious envenomations reported between 1919 and 1962, two were lethal. In 1957, a herpetologist died after being bitten by a juvenile. Hatchlings about 45 cm long are already dangerously venomous. Delayed symptoms can lead victims to wrongly believe a bite was a harmless dry bite.1

Xibaar bu baax: doktoor yi am nañu garab (sérum antivenimeux) walla ab paj ngir lii.1

Lan lay def bu tiitee?

It is timid and usually bites only when people try to handle, catch, chase or kill it. When cornered, it inflates its neck and takes an S-shaped striking pose.1

Su màttee

Antivenom is available and treatment is needed after a bite. Complete blood transfusions may also be required, especially if more than 24 to 48 hours pass without antivenom. Do not assume a bite is harmless just because no symptoms have appeared.1
Raxas fa mu màtt, def ba nit ki dal te wutal ndimbal doktoor. Am na yenn xeet (ni boomslang) yu mën a rey ay waxtu ginnaaw.

Saa su nekk, woo jëkk sa nimerob urgence (112, 000, 911). Lii ay ndigal yu yaatu ci ndimbal yu jëkk la, du ndigalu doktoor. Li war a xam ci ndimbal yu jëkk

Sàmmal sa bopp

Bul laal mukk, bul jàpp, bul sonal ab rab bu àll, doonte bu ndaw la, te doonte dafa mel ni dafa nelaw walla dafa dee.
May ko bérab. Su nga ko gisee, dalal, dellu ginnaaw ndànk-ndànk te bàyyi ko mu dem yoonam.
Su benn màttee la: dalal, bul yëngu, woo sa nimerob urgence (112, 000, 911) walla dem lopitaan ci gaaw. Bul fàtte ni mu meloon, ab nataal dina dimbali.

Du la wut. Dafay jëfandikoo daŋaram ngir jàpp lu muy lekk walla ngir aar boppam, te nëbbu moo ko gën a neex. Yeneen ci ni ngay sàmme sa bopp

Fan ci àddina?

Afrig Asi Tugal Amerig gu Bëj-gànnaar Amerig gu Bëj-saalum Ostarali ak Oseyani

Ni mu réye?

Ni mu guddoo?

Ni mu diise?

diis na ni 4 banaana

guddu na ni 4 muusu kër, bakkan ba geenguddu na ni 10 banaana yu ñu toftalemën na daw 100 meetar ci 60 segond (nit ki gën a gaaw soxla na 9,6)

Boomslang ni mu réye ci wetu YOW?

Ay waññ rekk ci sa navigateur. Dara du denc te dara du yónnee fenn.

Ni mu gaawe?

Ab nit kuy dox lu tollu ci 5 km/h (3,1 mph)

Boomslang lu tollu ci 6 km/h (3,7 mph)

Ab xale ci kaw welo lu tollu ci 12 km/h (7,5 mph)

baax na xam

Xibaar

An adult has only 1.6 to 8 mg of venom, but it is thought that 2 to 3 mg could be enough to kill a healthy adult human.1

It can open its jaws up to 170 degrees when biting.1

Its head is distinctly egg-shaped, and its eyes are exceptionally large.1

It often moves its head from side to side to get a better view of objects directly in front of it.1

When it is pursued by something too large to eat, it escapes by moving from branch to branch.1

Tasukatu léeb

Xalaat bu juum: Rear-fanged snakes cannot produce a lethal bite.

Dëgg: For a long time many herpetologists believed this, but boomslang bites have caused deaths.1

Ngir boroom xam-xam ci daŋar

Turu xam-xam: Dispholidus typus
Mbooloo: Jaan yu am bëñ ci ginnaaw gémmiñ
Njaboot: Colubridae2
Toftal: Squamata
Kontinaa yi: Afrig
Liir yi: It lays eggs, on average 8 to 14 (up to 27 have been observed), in a hollow tree trunk or rotting log. The eggs take about 3 months to hatch.1
Musiba ci nit: 4 / 5: Am na musiba lool3

Fa xibaar yi jóge

Boomslang (Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0))
Dispholidus typus (iNaturalist): tur ak ni ñu leen séddale.
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