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Peringuey's adder

Bitis peringueyi

Malunga negama: It is named after Louis Péringuey, a South African entomologist (an expert on insects) and museum director.1

Kubuhlungu njeKubuhlungu, kodwa akusayi kukwenzakalisa kakhulu.

Ii-viper namarhamba

UkulumaSitya: Inyama

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

Peringuey's adder is a small viper that lives in the Namib desert of Namibia and southern Angola. It hides under the sand, with only its eyes and the tip of its tail showing, and waits for lizards to pass by. It is a venomous snake that uses its venom to catch its prey.1

Sihlala

Namib desert, from southern Angola to Lüderitz in Namibia, plus the Fish River Canyon and parts of the Sahara1

IAfrika

Ekhaya

It lives in desert areas, mostly near sand dunes, where it buries itself just beneath the surface of the sand. It is found in the Namib desert from southern Angola to Lüderitz, Namibia, and also in the Fish River Canyon.1

Ubude

20 cm ukuya ku-32 cm (7,9 in ukuya ku-1 ft)1

Esona santya siphezulu

malunga ne-3 km/h (1,9 mph)

Emhlabeni, uqikelelo nje

Sitya ntoni?

It eats lizards, including Meroles lizards and the barking gecko Ptenopus. It ambushes prey by lying buried in the sand, then seizes and envenomates it when the prey comes close. Aporosaura lizards, which have high water content, are an important source of water for this snake.1

Ifoto ka-Peringuey's adder — Peringuey's adder. Ifoto: Dr. Thomas Dörner. CC BY-SA 4.0, iNaturalist.

Indlela yokusiqaphela

A small snake, usually 20 to 25 cm long including the tail1
Short, flat head with the eyes set on top of the head1
Pale buff, chestnut brown to orange-brown or sandy-grey body, with three rows of faint, elongated grey to dark spots1
Body also dotted with an irregular pattern of pale and dark spots1
Whitish or dirty yellow belly; the tail is usually tan, but about 25% of individuals have a black tail1

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

Phi emhlabeni?

IAfrika IAsiya IYurophu uMntla Melika uMzantsi Melika IOstreliya neOceania

Sikhulu kangakanani?

Side kangakanani?

ubude obulingana neebhloko zokudlala zokwakha eziyi-10 zilandelelanasingagqiba iimitha ezili-100 ngemizuzwana eyi-120 (owona mntu ukhawulezayo udinga i-9,6)

U-Peringuey's adder 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)

Peringuey's adder malunga ne-3 km/h (1,9 mph)

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

kufanelekile ukwazi

Iinyaniso

It buries itself under the sand with only its eyes and the tip of its tail exposed, waiting to ambush prey.1

Individuals with black tail tips may use the tail to lure prey, a behaviour called caudal luring.1

Its head is sharp and shaped to cut through the sand as it burrows.1

It gets an important part of its water from the Aporosaura lizards it eats.1

Kwiingcali zetyhefu

Igama lenzululwazi: Bitis peringueyi
Iqela: Ii-viper namarhamba
Usapho: Viperidae2
Ucwangco: Squamata
Amazwekazi: IAfrika
Ingozi ebantwini: 2 / 5: Kubuhlungu3

Apho iinyaniso zivela khona

Bitis peringueyi (Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0))
Bitis peringueyi (iNaturalist): amagama nokuhlelwa.
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