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Redtail coral snake

Micrurus mipartitus

SinokubulalaSinokukubulala ukuba awunyangwanga. Ukuba siyakuluma, fumana uncedo ngokukhawuleza.

Iinyoka ze-coral

UkulumaSitya: Inyama

Ingozi ebantwini: Siyingozi kakhuluSinokubulala umntu ongafumani nyango.

The red-tailed coral snake is a small venomous snake from Central and northern South America. It is common in farming areas of Colombia, so people living there may meet it. Its venom attacks the nerves and muscles, which makes it one of the more dangerous snakes in its region.1

Sihlala

Central America and northern South America, including Panama, Colombia, Venezuela, Ecuador and possibly Peru; also reported from Brazil (Rondônia).1

uMntla Melika, uMzantsi Melika

Ekhaya

It lives in forests, from tropical dry forests to foggy forests. It is also found in rural human settlements used for farming, which is where people are most likely to meet it.1

Ubude

20 cm ukuya ku-1,4 m (7,9 in ukuya ku-4,6 ft)1

Esona santya siphezulu

malunga ne-5,1 km/h (3,2 mph)

Emhlabeni, uqikelelo nje

Sitya ntoni?

It eats mainly other snakes, along with lizards, amphisbaenids (worm lizards), frogs and caecilians (legless amphibians).1

Ifoto ka-Redtail coral snake — Redtail coral snake. Ifoto: Anton. CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons.

Indlela yokusiqaphela

Has a cylindrical body and quite small eyes with a rounded head.1
Black body rings, numbering from 34 to 84, are separated by narrow yellow or white rings.1
The second ring on the head and 3 or 4 of the tail rings are red.1
Can reach a total length of 140.6 cm, including the tail.1
Mostly active at dusk and at night.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 neurotoxic, which means it attacks the nerves. It blocks the signals that tell muscles to contract, which can lead to muscle weakness and paralysis. Local pain and tingling can appear within minutes of a bite. In severe cases, nerve symptoms such as drooping eyelids, slurred speech, drowsiness and weakness in the limbs can develop within 30 minutes to 1 to 2 hours, and breathing can stop.1

Siyingozi kangakanani ebantwini?

Ingozi ebantwini: Siyingozi kakhuluSinokubulala umntu ongafumani nyango.

Its venom is potentially deadly. Scientists milked an average of 7 mg of dry venom from this snake, which is more than the estimated lethal dose for an adult human of 4 to 6 mg.1

Ukuba siyaluma

Gcina umntu engashukumi kwaye ezolile uze umse esibhedlele ngokukhawuleza, nokuba indawo elunyiweyo ibonakala incinci: iimpawu zinokuqala 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

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-8 zilandelelanasingagqiba iimitha ezili-100 ngemizuzwana eyi-71 (owona mntu ukhawulezayo udinga i-9,6)

U-Redtail coral snake 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)

Redtail coral snake malunga ne-5,1 km/h (3,2 mph)

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

kufanelekile ukwazi

Iinyaniso

It has between 34 and 84 black body rings, so no two snakes look exactly the same in ring count.1

Its venom is about 60% three-finger toxins, about 30% phospholipase A2, and about 10% other toxins.1

In dry spells it may shelter several centimetres underground, and in heavy rain it comes to the surface or into thick leaf litter.1

The most abundant toxin in its venom is called mipartoxin-I.1

Kwiingcali zetyhefu

Igama lenzululwazi: Micrurus mipartitus
Iqela: Iinyoka ze-coral
Usapho: Elapidae2
Ucwangco: Squamata
Amazwekazi: uMntla Melika, uMzantsi Melika
Iintsana: It lays eggs. A clutch of about eight white eggs has been recorded, and the young hatch after 73 to 87 days.1
Ingozi ebantwini: 4 / 5: Siyingozi kakhulu3

Apho iinyaniso zivela khona

Micrurus mipartitus (Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0))
Micrurus mipartitus (iNaturalist): amagama nokuhlelwa.
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