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Greek meadow viper

Vipera graeca
Malunga negama: It is named after the Greek mountain meadows where it lives.1
Kubuhlungu njeKubuhlungu, kodwa akusayi kukwenzakalisa kakhulu.
Ii-viper namarhamba UkulumaSitya: Izinambuzane
Ingozi ebantwini: KubuhlunguKunokuba buhlungu ngokwenene, kodwa phantse akusoze kube kubi kakhulu.

The Greek meadow viper is a small venomous snake that lives in mountain meadows in Albania and Greece. It was once thought to be a type of meadow viper, but scientists now see it as its own species. Its bite is venomous, so it is important to know what it looks like.1

Sihlala
Albania and Greece, mainly in the Hellenides and Pindos mountain ranges1
IYurophu
Ekhaya
It lives in grassy mountain meadows at high elevations, between 1,600 and 2,300 metres. The limestone ground there is grassy and has shrubs, and most sightings have been near these shrubs.1
Ubude
44 cm (1,4 ft)1
Esona santya siphezulu
malunga ne-3,2 km/h (2 mph)
Emhlabeni, uqikelelo nje
Sitya ntoni?
It eats mainly insects, especially grasshoppers and crickets from the Orthoptera group. Wing-buzzing grasshoppers, bush crickets and wart-biters are its most common prey.1
Ngokwenene!Ifoto ka-Greek meadow viper
Greek meadow viper. Ifoto: Konstantinos Kalaentzis. CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons.

Indlela yokusiqaphela

  • Small body, with a maximum snout-vent length of about 40 to 44 cm, depending on sex. Females are larger.1
  • Maximum tail length of about 4 to 5 cm. Males have longer tails.1
  • Dark spots are absent from the sides and top of the head, except for stripes behind the eyes and at the back of the head.1
  • White or brownish-grey underside.1
  • A sharp zigzag pattern along the back. Some males and young show a faint similarity to the meadow viper.1

Sidla ngokubhidaniswa no: It is often compared with the meadow viper (Vipera ursinii), which it closely resembles. The Greek viper has no dark spots on the head sides or top, apart from the head stripes, and it has different scale counts. Some males and juveniles show faint pattern similarities.1

Amandla etyhefu yokuluma nokuhlaba

Ukuluma

Ityhefu iphuma ngamazinyo aso etyhefu okanye ngamazinyo aso xa siluma.

Siyingozi kangakanani ebantwini?

Ingozi ebantwini: KubuhlunguKunokuba buhlungu ngokwenene, kodwa phantse akusoze kube kubi kakhulu.

Ukuba siyaluma

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

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?

Greek meadow viper malunga ne-44 cm ubude (1,4 ft)Ibhanana malunga ne-18 cm (7,1 in)Ikati yasekhaya malunga ne-50 cm (1,6 ft)
ubude obulingana neebhanana eziyi-2,5 zilandelelanaubude obulingana neebhloko zokudlala zokwakha eziyi-14 zilandelelanasingagqiba iimitha ezili-100 ngemizuzwana eyi-110 (owona mntu ukhawulezayo udinga i-9,6)

U-Greek meadow viper mkhulu kangakanani xa uthelekisa NAWE?

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

Sikhawuleza kangakanani?

kufanelekile ukwazi

Iinyaniso

1

The red fox, common kestrel and short-toed snake eagle are the only known predators of this viper.1

2

It is most common at high elevations, where annual temperatures average about 6 °C and snow lies until summer.1

3

Scientists were not sure it was a separate species until 2012, when DNA analysis showed it was its own species.1

Kwiingcali zetyhefu

Igama lenzululwazi
Vipera graeca
Iqela
Ii-viper namarhamba
Usapho
Viperidae2
Ucwangco
Squamata
Amazwekazi
IYurophu
Iintsana
It is ovoviviparous, meaning the eggs hatch inside the mother, and she gives birth to live young.1
Ingozi ebantwini
2 / 5: Kubuhlungu3

Apho iinyaniso zivela khona

  1. Vipera graeca (Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0))
  2. Vipera graeca (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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