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Large-scaled pit viper

Craspedocephalus macrolepis
Soxla na doktoorLu néew la mu rey, waaye màtt laaj na doktoor.
Vipère à fossettes Dafay màttDafay lekk: Yàpp
Musiba ci nit: Lu bonMàtt laaj na doktoor. Ñi ciy dee dañoo néew lool.

The large-scaled pit viper is a venomous snake that lives only in the southern Western Ghats mountains of South India. It is a bright green tree-dweller that hunts at night from high, cool forest. Tea pickers meet it often, which is why it matters to people who work on those plantations.1

Dafay dund ci
Mountains of the southern Western Ghats, Kerala and Tamil Nadu states, South India1
Asi
Kër
It is a slow-moving, nocturnal snake that prefers rainforest. It is also found in tea, coffee and cardamom plantations, where tea pickers are frequently bitten.1
Guddaay
68 cm (2,2 ft)1
Gaawaay bu gën a kawe
lu tollu ci 3,4 km/h (2,1 mph)
Ci suuf, xalaat
Lan lay lekk?
It feeds mainly on frogs, lizards, small birds and rodents. It is an ambush hunter that relies on camouflage to catch prey, and uses heat-sensing pits on its face to find warm-blooded animals.1
Dëgg-dëgg!Fotoy Large-scaled pit viper
Large-scaled pit viper. Foto: Uaijth. CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons.

Ni ngay ko xàmmee

  • Bright green on the back, sometimes with blackish skin between the scales1
  • A yellow or white stripe runs along each side of the body1
  • Pale green upper lips, and sometimes a black streak behind the eye1
  • Large, keeled, overlapping scales in 12 to 15 rows at the middle of the body1
  • Often active at night, moving through trees and on the ground with a prehensile tail that grips branches1

Kàttanu daŋar

Dafay màtt

Daŋar bi dafay génn ci bëñam yi su màttee.

Lan la daŋar biy sóob di def?

Its venom is presumed to be hemotoxic, meaning it is thought to act on the blood. This has not been studied thoroughly, so the details of its effects are not well known.1

Ni mu lore nit ñi?

Musiba ci nit: Lu bonMàtt laaj na doktoor. Ñi ciy dee dañoo néew lool.

Tea pickers are frequently bitten by this species, but the bites are seldom fatal.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?

Large-scaled pit viper guddaayam lu tollu ci 68 cm (2,2 ft)Ab muusu kër lu tollu ci 50 cm (1,6 ft)Ab xaj lu tollu ci 1 m (3,3 ft)
guddu na ni 4 banaana yu ñu toftalemën na daw 100 meetar ci 110 segond (nit ki gën a gaaw soxla na 9,6)

Large-scaled pit viper 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

It is a high-elevation specialist and is not normally recorded below 1200 m, with records between 1200 and 2695 m.1

2

It has an even number of dorsal scale rows, which is frequently found in this species but uncommon in snakes in general.1

Ngir boroom xam-xam ci daŋar

Turu xam-xam
Craspedocephalus macrolepis
Mbooloo
Vipère à fossettes
Njaboot
Viperidae2
Toftal
Squamata
Kontinaa yi
Asi
Liir yi
It lays eggs. Sexually mature females lay clutches of 4 to 7 eggs, usually in October.1
Musiba ci nit
3 / 5: Lu bon3

Fa xibaar yi jóge

  1. Craspedocephalus macrolepis (Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0))
  2. Craspedocephalus macrolepis (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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