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Coastal taipan

Oxyuranus scutellatus
Mën a reyBenn ci rab yi gën a rey ci àddina. Su la màttee, woo ndimbal ci saa si.Ndimbal bu gaaw ak sérum antivenimeux dañuy musal lu ëpp ci nit ñi. Woo sa nimerob urgence ci saa si.
Jaani Ostarali Dafay màttDafay lekk: Yàpp
Musiba ci nit: Mën a reyBenn ci rab yi gën a am musiba ci àddina.

The coastal taipan is one of the most feared snakes in Australia. It is a large, fast snake with a powerful venom, and it lives along the coasts of northern and eastern Australia and on the island of New Guinea. It is one of the reasons snake bite safety matters so much in these areas.1

Dafay dund ci
Northern and eastern Australia (north-western Western Australia, Northern Territory, Cape York, eastern Queensland, northern New South Wales) and southern New Guinea1
Ostarali ak Oseyani
Kër
It lives in warm, wet coastal regions, monsoon forests, open woodland and grassy areas, including grazing paddocks and disused rubbish tips. It has adapted well to sugarcane fields, where it feeds on rodents. It shelters in abandoned animal burrows, hollow logs and piles of vegetation and litter.1
Guddaay
1,5 m ba 2,9 m (4,9 ft ba 9,5 ft)1
Diisaay
6,5 kg (14 lb)1
Gaawaay bu gën a kawe
lu tollu ci 8,7 km/h (5,4 mph)
Ci suuf, xalaat
Lan lay lekk?
It mainly eats rats, mice and bandicoots, and will take birds when it has the chance. It scans for prey with its good eyesight, freezes when it finds a target, then strikes with several quick bites and releases the prey, which staggers away. This keeps the snake safer from retaliation by rats.1
Dëgg-dëgg!Fotoy Coastal taipan
Coastal taipan. Foto: Sardaka. CC BY-SA 4.0, iNaturalist.

Ni ngay ko xàmmee

  • Light olive or reddish-brown upperparts, sometimes dark grey to black1
  • Paler sides and a creamy-white to pale yellow belly, often marked with orange or pink flecks1
  • Long, narrow head with an angular brow and a lighter-coloured face1
  • Large, round, light brown or hazel eyes with large pupils1
  • Typically about 2.0 m long as an adult, with a slender body1

Ñu ngi koy faral di jaxasoo ak: It is often confused with the eastern brown snake, northern brown snake and king brown snake. The coastal taipan has a larger head and a narrow neck, and a lighter face and snout. In the other species, the head and neck are the same width.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 neurotoxic, which means it attacks the nerves, and it is also coagulopathic, which means it disturbs blood clotting. In a recorded bite case, the victim became unwell within 15 to 30 minutes, with drooping eyelids, nausea and difficulty breathing. Some victims have also lost their sense of smell for a time.1

Ni mu lore nit ñi?

Musiba ci nit: Mën a reyBenn ci rab yi gën a am musiba ci àddina.

It is considered one of the most dangerous snakes in the region and is classified by the World Health Organization as a snake of medical importance. Several deaths were recorded from its bites in the 1930s and 1940s, and more were added later as historical cases.1

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

Lan lay def bu tiitee?

It tends to avoid confrontation but becomes highly defensive if provoked.1

Su màttee

  • Any suspected bite needs urgent medical care. In one recorded case, the bitten man was taken to hospital, where he was given fluids and tiger snake antivenom, and he recovered after 19 days in hospital.1
  • Immobilisation ak pression: laxasal ab bànd élastique bu dëgër ci kaw fa mu màtt, ba noppi nga laxas cër bi yépp jëm kaw, takkal ko attelle, te def ba nit ki bañ a yëngu dara ba ndimbal ñëw.
  • Bul raxas fa mu màtt: lopitaan yi mën nañu saytu daŋar bi des ci der bi ngir tànn sérum antivenimeux bi baax.

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?

AfrigAsiTugalAmerig gu Bëj-gànnaarAmerig gu Bëj-saalumOstarali ak Oseyani

Ni mu réye?

Ni mu guddoo?

Coastal taipan guddaayam lu tollu ci 2,9 m (9,5 ft)Weloy nit ku mag lu tollu ci 1,8 m (5,9 ft)Ab oto lu tollu ci 4,5 m (15 ft)

Ni mu diise?

diis na ni 1,5 muusu kër
guddu na ni 3 xaj, bakkan ba geenguddu na ni 16 banaana yu ñu toftalediis na lu tollu ci muusu kërmën na daw 100 meetar ci 41 segond (nit ki gën a gaaw soxla na 9,6)

Coastal taipan 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

The longest recorded coastal taipan was 2.9 m long and weighed 6.5 kg, and larger specimens of up to 3.3 m are widely believed to exist.1

2

Its hunting method, freezing, striking and releasing prey, is similar to that of the African black mamba.1

3

It is the second-longest venomous snake in Australia, after the king brown snake.1

4

Newly hatched young grow quickly, reaching about 1.0 m in their first year.1

5

It may have become more common since cane toads were introduced to Australia in 1935.1

Tasukatu léeb

Xalaat bu juum: The snake hides in trees and drops onto people, and it chases people for hours.

Dëgg: Stories of it hiding in trees and dropping on victims were spread in newspapers and books, but snake handlers say it is shy and avoids confrontation. It only becomes highly defensive when provoked.1

Ngir boroom xam-xam ci daŋar

Turu xam-xam
Oxyuranus scutellatus
Mbooloo
Jaani Ostarali
Njaboot
Elapidae2
Toftal
Squamata
Kontinaa yi
Ostarali ak Oseyani
Liir yi
It lays a clutch of 7 to 20 eggs. The eggs take 60 to 80 days to hatch, and the young are 30 to 34 cm long.1
Ni mu nekke ci àll bi
Least Concern (IUCN)1
Musiba ci nit
5 / 5: Mën a rey3

Fa xibaar yi jóge

  1. Coastal taipan (Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0))
  2. Oxyuranus scutellatus (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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