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Fat-tailed scorpion

Androctonus australis

Malunga negama: The name joins the Greek word for "man-killer" with the Latin word for "south", giving "southern man-killer".1

SinokubulalaSinokukubulala ukuba awunyangwanga. Ukuba siyakuhlaba, fumana uncedo ngokukhawuleza.

Oonomadudwane

UkuhlabaSitya: Inyama

Ingozi ebantwini: Siyingozi kakhuluSinokubulala umntu ongafumani nyango.

The fat-tailed scorpion is a hardy desert scorpion from North Africa. It can survive powerful sandstorms without digging a burrow. Its venom is among the most dangerous of any scorpion in the world, so it is important to know it by sight and keep well away from it.1

Sihlala

North Africa1

IAfrika

Ekhaya

It is found mainly in deserts and other arid places. During the day it hides in humid, dark places and comes out at night to hunt.1

Ubude

10 cm (3,9 in)1

Esona santya siphezulu

malunga ne-2 km/h (1,2 mph)

Emhlabeni, uqikelelo nje

Sitya ntoni?

It feeds on insects, small lizards and even small mammals, hunting at night. Cannibalism has been reported in this species.1

Ifoto ka-Fat-tailed scorpion — Fat-tailed scorpion. Ifoto: unknown. CC0, iNaturalist.

Indlela yokusiqaphela

It is a medium-sized scorpion that can grow up to 10 centimetres long.1
It has a very thick, powerful tail.1
Stripes run along the sides of its dome-shaped body.1
Its armour is covered in tiny dome-shaped granules.1
It is active at night and hides by day.1

Sidla ngokubhidaniswa no: Generally similar scorpions from the Middle East and India were once thought to be this species. Recent studies treat them as different species.1

Amandla etyhefu yokuluma nokuhlaba

Ukuhlaba

Ityhefu iphuma ngenaliti yokuhlaba.

Ityhefu yaso yokuluma okanye yokuhlaba yenza ntoni?

Its venom is very potent and is mainly made of neurotoxins (which attack the nerves), cardiotoxins (which harm the heart) and myotoxins (which damage muscle). It also contains hemotoxins, which affect the blood. Deaths in people usually occur through heart and breathing failure, and sometimes through bleeding in the brain, organ damage or shock.1

Siyingozi kangakanani ebantwini?

Ingozi ebantwini: Siyingozi kakhuluSinokubulala umntu ongafumani nyango.

It is one of the world's most dangerous scorpions, due to the strength of its venom and its aggressive temperament. It claims several lives each year.1

Ukuba siyahlaba

Pholisa indawo ehlatyiweyo ngepakethi yomkhenkce kwaye ugcine umntu engashukumi. Fumana uncedo lwezonyango ngokukhawuleza, ingakumbi kubantwana: abanye oonomadudwane bayabulala kubantwana.

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 siyakuhlaba: 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 neebhloko zokudlala zokwakha eziyi-3 zilandelelanasingagqiba iimitha ezili-100 ngemizuzwana eyi-180 (owona mntu ukhawulezayo udinga i-9,6)

U-Fat-tailed scorpion mkhulu kangakanani xa uthelekisa NAWE?

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

Sikhawuleza kangakanani?

Ufudo malunga ne-0,3 km/h (0,19 mph)

Fat-tailed scorpion malunga ne-2 km/h (1,2 mph)

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

kufanelekile ukwazi

Iinyaniso

It can withstand sandstorms strong enough to strip paint off steel, and it does not dig burrows to shelter from them.1

Researchers have considered copying this surface texture for use on aeroplanes and helicopters.1

Its armour has dome-shaped granules about 10 micrometres high, and scientists think this texture helps protect it from sand.1

The lethal dose (LD50) of its venom is 0.32 mg per kg when injected under the skin.1

Its venom contains a toxin called AaTX1, which was first found in this species.1

Umqhekezi weentsomi

Intsomi: The fat-tailed scorpion lives across the Middle East and as far east as India.

Inyaniso: Older data suggested a wider range, but more recent studies have discredited this. It is found in North Africa.1

Kwiingcali zetyhefu

Igama lenzululwazi: Androctonus australis
Iqela: Oonomadudwane
Usapho: Buthidae2
Ucwangco: Scorpiones
Amazwekazi: IAfrika
Ingozi ebantwini: 4 / 5: Siyingozi kakhulu3

Apho iinyaniso zivela khona

Androctonus australis (Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0))
Androctonus australis (iNaturalist): amagama nokuhlelwa.
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