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Arizona black rattlesnake

Crotalus cerberus
Kufuna ugqirhaKunqabile ukuba sibulale, kodwa ukulunywa kufuna ugqirha.
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The Arizona black rattlesnake is a venomous pit viper, a type of snake that senses heat with pits between its eyes and nostrils. It lives in the southwestern United States, mostly in the mountains of Arizona. It is special because scientists have observed it showing complex social behaviour, and its mothers care for their babies.1

Sihlala
Southwestern United States: Arizona, and extreme western New Mexico1
uMntla Melika
Ekhaya
It lives in mountain ranges across Arizona, including the Hualapai, Santa Catalina, Rincon, Pinaleno and Blue Mountains, and at Steeple Rock in western New Mexico.1
Ubude
78 cm ukuya ku-1,2 m (2,6 ft ukuya ku-4 ft)1
Esona santya siphezulu
malunga ne-3,6 km/h (2,2 mph)
Emhlabeni, uqikelelo nje
Sitya ntoni?
It eats suitably sized amphibians, reptiles, birds and their eggs, and mammals.1
Ngokwenene!Ifoto ka-Arizona black rattlesnake
Arizona black rattlesnake. Ifoto: TheLoneStarState. CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons.

Indlela yokusiqaphela

  • Ground colour is dark grey, brownish black, reddish brown or blackish.1
  • Dark blotches run along the back, becoming crossbands just before the tail.1
  • Some individuals are a uniform dark colour with no clear pattern.1
  • Some have dark blotches bordered with white, cream or yellow, or a pale body with a lot of yellow.1
  • A stripe runs from the eye, clearer in lighter-coloured specimens. Adults are less patterned than juveniles.1

Sidla ngokubhidaniswa no: It is often incorrectly called a timber rattlesnake.1

Amandla etyhefu yokuluma nokuhlaba

Ukuluma

Ityhefu iphuma ngamazinyo aso etyhefu okanye ngamazinyo aso xa siluma.

Siyingozi kangakanani ebantwini?

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Ukuba siyaluma

  • Gcina umntu engashukumi kwaye ezolile, gcina ilungu elilunyiweyo kwinqanaba lentliziyo, susa imisesane nezinto eziqinileyo, uze umse esibhedlele ngokukhawuleza.

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Hlala ukhuselekile

  • Ungaze uchukumise, ubambe okanye uqhule isilwanyana sasendle, nokuba sincinci, kwaye nokuba sibonakala silele okanye sifile.
  • Sinike indawo. Ukuba udibana naso, hlala uzolile, buyela umva kancinci kwaye usiyeke sihambe ngendlela yaso.
  • Ukuba siyakuluma: hlala uzolile, musa ukushukuma, tsalela inombolo kaxakeka (112, 000, 911) okanye uye esibhedlele ngokukhawuleza. Khumbula ukuba sasikhangeleka njani, ifoto iyanceda.

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Sikhulu kangakanani?

Side kangakanani?

Arizona black rattlesnake malunga ne-1,2 m ubude (4 ft)Inja malunga ne-1 m (3,3 ft)Umntu omdala malunga ne-1,7 m (5,6 ft)
ubude obulingana neekati zasekhaya eziyi-2,5 ukusuka empumlweni ukuya emsileniubude obulingana neebhanana eziyi-7 zilandelelanasingagqiba iimitha ezili-100 ngemizuzwana eyi-100 (owona mntu ukhawulezayo udinga i-9,6)

U-Arizona black rattlesnake mkhulu kangakanani xa uthelekisa NAWE?

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Iinyaniso

1

The Arizona black rattlesnake is the first snake species observed to show complex social behaviour.1

2

Adults can change colour quickly, a trick it shares with chameleons and some other lizards.1

3

Mothers sometimes show cooperative parenting behaviour while they stay with their young.1

4

Its quick colour change is likely caused by melanin moving inside skin cells, as in the closely related prairie rattlesnake.1

5

Like all temperate pit vipers, it gives birth to live young rather than laying eggs.1

Umqhekezi weentsomi

Intsomi: It is a timber rattlesnake.

Inyaniso: This is a common mistake. It is a separate species, Crotalus cerberus, found in the southwestern United States.1

Kwiingcali zetyhefu

Igama lenzululwazi
Crotalus cerberus
Iqela
Ii-rattlesnake
Usapho
Viperidae2
Ucwangco
Squamata
Amazwekazi
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Iintsana
It bears live young, in broods of 4 to 21 babies. Females stay with their young in nests for 7 to 14 days.1
Ingozi ebantwini
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Apho iinyaniso zivela khona

  1. Crotalus cerberus (Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0))
  2. Crotalus cerberus (iNaturalist): amagama nokuhlelwa.
  3. Venom Wiki: inqanaba lengozi, ubungakanani obuqhelekileyo noqikelelo lwesantya zezethu. Bona indlela esizifumana ngayo: Indlela esilinganisa ngayo ingozi.

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