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Brazil's lancehead

Bothrops brazili
Ci turam: The specific name brazili honours Dr. Vital Brazil, a Brazilian physician who founded the Instituto Butantan in São Paulo.1
Mën na reyMën na la rey su ñu la fajul. Su la màttee, wutal ndimbal ci gaaw.
Musiba ci nit: Am na musiba loolMën na rey nit ku ñu fajul.

Brazil's lancehead is a venomous pitviper that lives on the ground in the equatorial forests of northern South America. It is a stoutly built snake with a pinkish or reddish-grey body covered in dark blotches. It is uncommon, and it is greatly feared by indigenous people of southeastern Colombia.1

Dafay dund ci
Equatorial forests of northern South America, from southern Colombia to northern Bolivia1
Amerig gu Bëj-saalum
Kër
It is a terrestrial snake, so it lives on the ground in equatorial forests.1
Guddaay
70 cm ba 1,5 m (2,3 ft ba 4,9 ft)1
Gaawaay bu gën a kawe
lu tollu ci 3,8 km/h (2,4 mph)
Ci suuf, xalaat
Dëgg-dëgg!Fotoy Brazil's lancehead
Brazil's lancehead. Foto: Chad Frick and Ulises Frick. CC BY 3.0, Wikimedia Commons.

Ni ngay ko xàmmee

  • Stoutly built, with a body that is thick rather than slender1
  • Pinkish tan to pinkish or reddish grey body with 9 to 19 dark ash-grey blotches along the back, which may alternate, oppose or merge into bands1
  • Belly usually yellow or pinkish cream, with slightly darker mottling1
  • Tail the same colour as the body, but it may be mostly black1
  • A poorly defined pale brown stripe may run from the eye to the corner of the mouth, bordered below by a dark brown line1

Kàttanu daŋar

Dafay màtt

Daŋar bi dafay génn ci bëñam yi su màttee.

Ni mu lore nit ñi?

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

It is an uncommon species. Bites from it have not yet been recorded, but it is greatly feared by indigenous people of southeastern Colombia.1

Su màttee

  • Def ba nit ki bañ a yëngu te dal, yemale cër bi ñu màtt ak kawewaayu xol bi, dindi jaaro yi ak lu xat lépp, te yóbbu ko lopitaan ci gaaw.

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

Ni mu réye?

Ni mu guddoo?

Brazil's lancehead guddaayam lu tollu ci 1,5 m (4,9 ft)Ab xaj lu tollu ci 1 m (3,3 ft)Ab nit ku mag lu tollu ci 1,7 m (5,6 ft)
guddu na ni 3 muusu kër, bakkan ba geenguddu na ni 8 banaana yu ñu toftalemën na daw 100 meetar ci 95 segond (nit ki gën a gaaw soxla na 9,6)

Brazil's lancehead ni mu réye ci wetu YOW?

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

Ni mu gaawe?

baax na xam

Xibaar

1

Among adults, females are much larger than males, based on the available evidence.1

2

Because of this variation in scales and colour, new taxa will likely be defined as research continues.1

Ngir boroom xam-xam ci daŋar

Turu xam-xam
Bothrops brazili
Mbooloo
Vipère à fossettes
Njaboot
Viperidae2
Toftal
Squamata
Kontinaa yi
Amerig gu Bëj-saalum
Liir yi
It is oviparous, meaning it lays eggs.1
Musiba ci nit
4 / 5: Am na musiba lool3

Fa xibaar yi jóge

  1. Bothrops brazili (Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0))
  2. Bothrops brazili (iNaturalist): tur ak ni ñu leen séddale.
  3. Venom Wiki: tolluwaayu musiba bi, réyaay bu yem bi ak xalaatu gaawaay bi, nun ñoo leen defar. Seetal ni nu leen waññe: Ni nuy natte musiba.

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