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Cape cobra

Naja nivea

Malunga negama: Naja comes from a Sanskrit word meaning 'cobra', and nivea comes from Latin words meaning 'snow' or 'snow-white'.1

SiyabulalaEsinye sezona zilwanyana zibulalayo eMhlabeni. Ukuba siyakuluma, biza uncedo ngoko nangoko.Uncedo olukhawulezayo ne-antivenom zisindisa abantu abaninzi. Tsalela inombolo kaxakeka ngoko nangoko.

Amaphimpi, iimamba nee-krait

UkulumaSitya: Inyama

Ingozi ebantwini: SiyabulalaEsinye sezona zilwanyana ziyingozi emhlabeni.

The Cape cobra is a medium-sized, highly venomous cobra. It lives in many kinds of land across southern Africa, and it often comes close to people. It is regarded as one of the most dangerous cobras in all of Africa.1

Sihlala

Southern Africa: mainly South Africa, plus southern Namibia, south-west Botswana and western Lesotho1

IAfrika

Ekhaya

It lives in fynbos, bushveld, karoo scrubland, arid savanna and deserts. It often uses rodent burrows, abandoned termite mounds and rock crevices. It also enters villages, suburbs of Cape Town and houses, where it may shelter from the heat or hunt rodents.1

Ubude

1,2 m ukuya ku-1,6 m (3,9 ft ukuya ku-5,2 ft)1

Esona santya siphezulu

malunga ne-7,5 km/h (4,7 mph)

Emhlabeni, uqikelelo nje

Sitya ntoni?

It is a feeding generalist that eats other snakes, rodents, lizards, birds and carrion. It is also well known for raiding the nests of sociable weavers, and it can be cannibalistic, sometimes eating the young of its own kind.1

Ifoto ka-Cape cobra — Cape cobra. Ifoto: Marius Burger. CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons.

Indlela yokusiqaphela

Colour ranges from yellow through golden brown and dark brown to black.1
Many individuals have black or pale stippling and blotches.1
Juveniles have a dark throat that continues down the belly.1
Adults are typically 1.2 to 1.4 m long.1
When threatened, it raises the front of its body and spreads a broad hood.1

Sidla ngokubhidaniswa no: Juvenile Cape cobras have dark throats, which often leads people to confuse them with the rinkhals, a spitting cobra. The dark throat fades during the first year or two of life.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 thick and syrupy, and contains potent neurotoxins that act on the nerves, and possibly cardiotoxins that affect the heart. The venom can affect the respiratory system, nervous system and heart. When death occurs, it normally takes one to ten hours, or more, and is often caused by respiratory failure due to paralysis.1

Siyingozi kangakanani ebantwini?

Ingozi ebantwini: SiyabulalaEsinye sezona zilwanyana ziyingozi emhlabeni.

It is regarded as one of the most dangerous cobras in Africa because of its potent venom and its frequent presence around houses. The mortality rate for untreated bites is not exactly known, but is thought to be high, around 50%. Outcomes depend on factors such as the amount of venom injected and the bitten person's state of mind.1

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

Senza ntoni xa soyika?

When threatened, it raises its forebody, spreads a broad hood, may hiss loudly and strikes readily.1

Ukuba siyaluma

Mechanical ventilation (a machine that helps the person breathe) and symptom management are often enough to save a life. Serious cases need antivenom, which is a polyvalent antivenom produced by the South African Institute of Medical Research.1
Gcina umntu engashukumi kwaye ezolile, susa imisesane nezinto eziqinileyo, uze umse esibhedlele ngokukhawuleza: i-antivenom lunyango.

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?

ubude obulingana neekati zasekhaya eziyi-3 ukusuka empumlweni ukuya emsileniubude obulingana neebhanana eziyi-9 zilandelelanasingagqiba iimitha ezili-100 ngemizuzwana eyi-48 (owona mntu ukhawulezayo udinga i-9,6)

U-Cape cobra 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)

Cape cobra malunga ne-7,5 km/h (4,7 mph)

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

kufanelekile ukwazi

Iinyaniso

Its venom dries into shiny pale flakes that look like yellow sugar.1

Meerkats and some mongooses prey on it and have a low susceptibility to its venom.1

It is a good climber and can climb trees and bushes.1

The longest recorded specimen was a male from Aus, Namibia, measuring 1.88 m.1

Kwiingcali zetyhefu

Igama lenzululwazi: Naja nivea
Iqela: Amaphimpi, iimamba nee-krait
Usapho: Elapidae2
Ucwangco: Squamata
Amazwekazi: IAfrika
Iintsana: It lays eggs, between 8 and 20 per clutch in midsummer, and the hatchlings are completely independent from birth.1
Ingozi ebantwini: 5 / 5: Siyabulala3

Apho iinyaniso zivela khona

Cape cobra (Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0))
Naja nivea (iNaturalist): amagama nokuhlelwa.
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