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Boomslang

Dispholidus typus

Malunga negama: The name comes from Dutch and Afrikaans, meaning "tree snake": boom is "tree" and slang is "snake".1

SinokubulalaSinokukubulala ukuba awunyangwanga. Ukuba siyakuluma, fumana uncedo ngokukhawuleza.

Iinyoka ezinamazinyo etyhefu ngasemva

UkulumaSitya: Inyama

Ingozi ebantwini: Siyingozi kakhuluSinokubulala umntu ongafumani nyango.

The boomslang is a highly venomous tree snake from Sub-Saharan Africa. It spends most of its time in trees and bushes, though it also hunts and shelters on the ground. Its venom works slowly, so a bite can look harmless at first and still be life-threatening.1

Sihlala

Sub-Saharan Africa, from West Africa through Central and East Africa to much of Southern Africa1

IAfrika

Ekhaya

It lives mainly in forests but also in karoo shrubs, savannahs, lowland forests and grasslands. It is an excellent climber and is mostly found in trees, but it often hunts or shelters on the ground and sometimes hides underground in harsh weather.1

Ubude

1 m ukuya ku-1,8 m (3,3 ft ukuya ku-6 ft)1

Ubunzima

175 g ukuya ku-510 g (6 oz ukuya ku-1,1 lb)1

Esona santya siphezulu

malunga ne-6 km/h (3,7 mph)

Emhlabeni, uqikelelo nje

Sitya ntoni?

It eats chameleons, other arboreal lizards, frogs, and occasionally small mammals, birds, and eggs from nests. It swallows its prey whole and will also eat other snakes, including members of its own species.1

Ifoto ka-Boomslang — Boomslang. Ifoto: Miguel da Fonseca. CC0, Wikimedia Commons.

Indlela yokusiqaphela

Adult males are light green with black or blue scale edges.1
Adult females are often brown.1
Very large eyes and a distinctive egg-shaped head.1
Average adults are 100 to 160 cm long, including the tail.1
Hatchlings: males are grey with blue speckles, females are pale brown.1

Amandla etyhefu yokuluma nokuhlaba

Ukuluma

Ityhefu iphuma ngamazinyo aso etyhefu okanye ngamazinyo aso xa siluma.

Ityhefu yaso yokuluma okanye yokuhlaba yenza ntoni?

Its venom is mainly a haemotoxin, a type of venom that disrupts blood clotting. Many tiny clots form in the blood, causing bleeding in tissues such as muscle and the brain, while the small blood vessels become clogged. Symptoms include headache, nausea, sleepiness and confusion, and can lead to cardiac arrest and unconsciousness. Because the venom is slow-acting, symptoms may not appear until many hours after a bite.1

Siyingozi kangakanani ebantwini?

Ingozi ebantwini: Siyingozi kakhuluSinokubulala umntu ongafumani nyango.

Bites can be fatal. Of eight serious envenomations reported between 1919 and 1962, two were lethal. In 1957, a herpetologist died after being bitten by a juvenile. Hatchlings about 45 cm long are already dangerously venomous. Delayed symptoms can lead victims to wrongly believe a bite was a harmless dry bite.1

Iindaba ezimnandi: oogqirha banamayeza (i-antivenom) okanye unyango lwale nto.1

Senza ntoni xa soyika?

It is timid and usually bites only when people try to handle, catch, chase or kill it. When cornered, it inflates its neck and takes an S-shaped striking pose.1

Ukuba siyaluma

Antivenom is available and treatment is needed after a bite. Complete blood transfusions may also be required, especially if more than 24 to 48 hours pass without antivenom. Do not assume a bite is harmless just because no symptoms have appeared.1
Hlamba indawo elunyiweyo, gcina umntu ezolile kwaye ufumane uncedo lwezonyango. Ezinye iintlobo (njenge-boomslang) zinokubulala kwiiyure ezininzi kamva.

Soloko utsalela inombolo kaxakeka kuqala (112, 000, 911). Esi sisikhokelo soncedo lokuqala ngokubanzi, asilocebiso lwezonyango. Iziseko zoncedo lokuqala

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.

Asikuzingeli. Sisebenzisa ityhefu yaso ukubamba ukutya okanye ukuzikhusela, kwaye singakhetha ukuzimela. Okungakumbi malunga nokuhlala ukhuselekile

Phi emhlabeni?

IAfrika IAsiya IYurophu uMntla Melika uMzantsi Melika IOstreliya neOceania

Sikhulu kangakanani?

Side kangakanani?

Sinzima kangakanani?

ubunzima obulingana neebhanana eziyi-4

ubude obulingana neekati zasekhaya eziyi-4 ukusuka empumlweni ukuya emsileniubude obulingana neebhanana eziyi-10 zilandelelanasingagqiba iimitha ezili-100 ngemizuzwana eyi-60 (owona mntu ukhawulezayo udinga i-9,6)

U-Boomslang mkhulu kangakanani xa uthelekisa NAWE?

Zizibalo nje kwibhrawuza yakho. Akukho nto igcinwayo okanye ithunyelwa naphi na.

Sikhawuleza kangakanani?

Umntu ohambayo malunga ne-5 km/h (3,1 mph)

Boomslang malunga ne-6 km/h (3,7 mph)

Umntwana okhwele ibhayisekile malunga ne-12 km/h (7,5 mph)

kufanelekile ukwazi

Iinyaniso

An adult has only 1.6 to 8 mg of venom, but it is thought that 2 to 3 mg could be enough to kill a healthy adult human.1

It can open its jaws up to 170 degrees when biting.1

Its head is distinctly egg-shaped, and its eyes are exceptionally large.1

It often moves its head from side to side to get a better view of objects directly in front of it.1

When it is pursued by something too large to eat, it escapes by moving from branch to branch.1

Umqhekezi weentsomi

Intsomi: Rear-fanged snakes cannot produce a lethal bite.

Inyaniso: For a long time many herpetologists believed this, but boomslang bites have caused deaths.1

Kwiingcali zetyhefu

Igama lenzululwazi: Dispholidus typus
Iqela: Iinyoka ezinamazinyo etyhefu ngasemva
Usapho: Colubridae2
Ucwangco: Squamata
Amazwekazi: IAfrika
Iintsana: It lays eggs, on average 8 to 14 (up to 27 have been observed), in a hollow tree trunk or rotting log. The eggs take about 3 months to hatch.1
Ingozi ebantwini: 4 / 5: Siyingozi kakhulu3

Apho iinyaniso zivela khona

Boomslang (Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0))
Dispholidus typus (iNaturalist): amagama nokuhlelwa.
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