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Eastern green mamba

Dendroaspis angusticeps
Ci turam: The species name angusticeps comes from Latin words meaning 'narrow' and 'head'.1
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.
Kobra, mamba ak krait Dafay màttDafay lekk: Yàpp
Musiba ci nit: Mën a reyBenn ci rab yi gën a am musiba ci àddina.

The eastern green mamba is a highly venomous snake with a slender body and bright green back. It lives in trees along the coasts of southern and East Africa. Although it is one of the most common green mambas, it is shy and usually hidden in leaves, so it is rarely seen.1

Dafay dund ci
Coastal regions of East and southern Africa, from Kenya south through Tanzania and Mozambique to KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, plus Zanzibar.1
Afrig
Kër
It is mainly a tree-dweller that prefers dense, shady vegetation, including forest, thickets and farm trees such as citrus, mango, coconut and cashew. In coastal East Africa it sometimes enters houses and may shelter in thatched roofs.1
Guddaay
1,8 m ba 2,5 m (5,9 ft ba 8,2 ft)1
Gaawaay bu gën a kawe
lu tollu ci 8,3 km/h (5,2 mph)
Ci suuf, xalaat
Lan lay lekk?
It eats birds and their eggs and chicks, small mammals including bats, arboreal rodents and arboreal lizards. It usually waits in ambush for prey, though it has also been seen actively hunting a sleeping bat.1
Dëgg-dëgg!Fotoy Eastern green mamba
Eastern green mamba. Foto: Dick Culbert. CC BY 4.0, iNaturalist.

Ni ngay ko xàmmee

  • Bright green upperparts, sometimes with a few isolated yellow scales.1
  • Pale yellow-green belly.1
  • Juveniles are blue-green and turn bright green at about 75 cm long.1
  • Long, slender, coffin-shaped head. It can flatten its neck into a slight hood when threatened.1
  • The inside of the mouth is white or bluish-white.1

Ñu ngi koy faral di jaxasoo ak: Green forms of the boomslang are often called green mambas in Southern Africa. They have larger eyes and shorter heads. Green bush snakes of the genus Philothamnus are often confused with smaller eastern green mambas. The boomslang is also venomous.1

Kàttanu daŋar

Dafay màtt

Daŋar bi dafay génn ci bëñam yi su màttee.

Lan la daŋar biy sóob di def?

Its venom contains neurotoxins, which attack the nerves, and cardiotoxins, which damage the heart. Symptoms include swelling at the bite, dizziness, nausea, dehydration, laboured breathing and difficulty swallowing. These can progress to irregular heartbeat, convulsions and respiratory paralysis, which stops breathing and can be fatal. Paralysis may be mild or absent.1

Ni mu lore nit ñi?

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

A survey in southern Africa from 1957 to 1979 recorded 17 bites confirmed as eastern green mambas. Ten of these caused systemic envenomation, and no victims died. Bites are most common from September to February, the breeding season, when the snake is most irritable. The average dose able to kill a human is about 18 to 20 mg of venom, and one bite can deliver 60 to 95 mg (dry weight). In 2024, a YouTuber died after being bitten, following anaphylactic shock.1

Lan lay def bu tiitee?

It is shy and avoids people and predators, attacking only when it feels threatened, and it can flatten its neck into a hood.1

Su màttee

  • Severe bites must be treated immediately on site, as they can quickly prove deadly.1
  • Def ba nit ki bañ a yëngu te dal, dindi jaaro yi ak lu xat lépp, te yóbbu ko lopitaan ci gaaw: sérum antivenimeux mooy paj mi.

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?

Eastern green mamba guddaayam lu tollu ci 2,5 m (8,2 ft)Weloy nit ku mag lu tollu ci 1,8 m (5,9 ft)Ab oto lu tollu ci 4,5 m (15 ft)
guddu na ni 2,5 xaj, bakkan ba geenguddu na ni 14 banaana yu ñu toftalemën na daw 100 meetar ci 43 segond (nit ki gën a gaaw soxla na 9,6)

Eastern green mamba 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

Males fight each other during the breeding season, usually entwining and pushing to pin each other's heads down. These fights can last several hours, but the snakes do not bite each other.1

2

Unlike most elapid snakes, which hunt actively, it often waits in ambush for its prey, a style more common among vipers.1

3

On average, an individual moves only about 5.4 metres per day, and it can stay in the same place for days.1

4

It has the least toxic venom of the three green mamba species, but it is still highly venomous.1

5

The oldest recorded eastern green mamba was a captive snake that lived 18.8 years.1

Tasukatu léeb

Xalaat bu juum: It is an aggressive, fast-moving 'people-chaser'.

Dëgg: It is shy and elusive, usually hidden in trees, and it generally avoids people. It attacks only when it feels threatened.1

Ngir boroom xam-xam ci daŋar

Turu xam-xam
Dendroaspis angusticeps
Mbooloo
Kobra, mamba ak krait
Njaboot
Elapidae2
Toftal
Squamata
Kontinaa yi
Afrig
Liir yi
The female lays 4 to 17 eggs, usually 10 to 15, in leaf litter in hollow trees, from October to November. The young measure about 30 to 45 cm in the wild.1
Diiru dund
lu tollu ci 18,8 at1
Musiba ci nit
5 / 5: Mën a rey3

Fa xibaar yi jóge

  1. Eastern green mamba (Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0))
  2. Dendroaspis angusticeps (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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