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Cape twig snake

Thelotornis capensis
Malunga negama: The subspecies name oatesi honours British naturalist Frank Oates.1
SinokubulalaSinokukubulala ukuba awunyangwanga. Ukuba siyakuluma, fumana uncedo ngokukhawuleza.
Ingozi ebantwini: Siyingozi kakhuluSinokubulala umntu ongafumani nyango.

The Cape twig snake is a slender snake with a very long tail. It lives in southern Africa, in forest, savanna and shrubland. It is highly venomous, so it is important to know what it looks like.1

Sihlala
Southern Africa1
IAfrika
Ekhaya
It lives in forest, savanna and shrubland. It is semi-arboreal, which means it spends part of its time in trees and bushes.1
Ubude
1,7 m (5,5 ft)1
Esona santya siphezulu
malunga ne-5,5 km/h (3,4 mph)
Emhlabeni, uqikelelo nje
Ngokwenene!Ifoto ka-Cape twig snake
Cape twig snake. Ifoto: Wynand Uys. CC BY 4.0, iNaturalist.

Indlela yokusiqaphela

  • It has a slender body and a long tail.1
  • It is active during the day (diurnal).1
  • It spends part of its time in trees and bushes (semi-arboreal).1
  • The longest museum specimen, a male, measured 168 cm in total length, with a 62 cm tail.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 delivered by large grooved teeth at the back of the upper jaw, so it is a rear-fanged snake. German scientist Robert Mertens, a researcher who studied reptiles, died after being bitten by this species.1

Siyingozi kangakanani ebantwini?

Ingozi ebantwini: Siyingozi kakhuluSinokubulala umntu ongafumani nyango.

It is highly venomous. A bite from this snake caused the death of German herpetologist Robert Mertens.1

Ukuba siyaluma

  • 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

Sikhulu kangakanani?

Side kangakanani?

Cape twig snake malunga ne-1,7 m ubude (5,5 ft)Inja malunga ne-1 m (3,3 ft)Umntu omdala malunga ne-1,7 m (5,6 ft)
ubude obulingana neekati zasekhaya eziyi-3 ukusuka empumlweni ukuya emsileniubude obulingana neebhanana eziyi-9 zilandelelanasingagqiba iimitha ezili-100 ngemizuzwana eyi-65 (owona mntu ukhawulezayo udinga i-9,6)

U-Cape twig snake mkhulu kangakanani xa uthelekisa NAWE?

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

Sikhawuleza kangakanani?

kufanelekile ukwazi

Iinyaniso

1

It is one of the few snakes that is mainly active by day.1

2

Its tail makes up more than a third of its total length in the longest recorded specimen.1

Kwiingcali zetyhefu

Igama lenzululwazi
Thelotornis capensis
Iqela
Iinyoka ezinamazinyo etyhefu ngasemva
Usapho
Colubridae2
Ucwangco
Squamata
Amazwekazi
IAfrika
Iintsana
It lays eggs (oviparous), with a clutch of 4 to 13 eggs.1
Ingozi ebantwini
4 / 5: Siyingozi kakhulu3

Apho iinyaniso zivela khona

  1. Savanna vine snake (Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0))
  2. Thelotornis capensis (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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