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Shedao island pit viper

Gloydius shedaoensis
Kufuna ugqirhaKunqabile ukuba sibulale, kodwa ukulunywa kufuna ugqirha.
Ii-pit viper UkulumaSitya: Inyama
Ingozi ebantwini: Kubi kakhuluUkulunywa kufuna ugqirha. Ukufa kunqabe kakhulu.

The Shedao island pit viper is a venomous snake that lives only on Shedao Island, off the coast of northeastern China. The island is very small, but it has an extraordinarily large population of these snakes. Scientists are interested in it because it is found nowhere else in the world.1

Sihlala
Shedao Island, off the coast of Liaotung in northeastern China1
IAsiya
Ekhaya
Shedao Island is small, with an area of about 0.63 to 0.73 square kilometres, and lies about 13 km from the nearest mainland. The snakes hunt on the ground and from tree branches.1
Ubude
65 cm ukuya ku-70 cm (2,1 ft ukuya ku-2,3 ft)1
Esona santya siphezulu
malunga ne-3,5 km/h (2,2 mph)
Emhlabeni, uqikelelo nje
Sitya ntoni?
It eats small passerine birds of many species, which pass over the island in May and September. It ambushes them on the ground or from tree branches, holding the front of its body in a concertina shape.1

Indlela yokusiqaphela

  • Grey-brown ground colour1
  • A series of dark brown X-shaped markings along the body1
  • A very narrow, very dark stripe running from behind the eye1
  • Adults grow to an average snout-vent length of 65 to 70 cm1

Amandla etyhefu yokuluma nokuhlaba

Ukuluma

Ityhefu iphuma ngamazinyo aso etyhefu okanye ngamazinyo aso xa siluma.

Siyingozi kangakanani ebantwini?

Ingozi ebantwini: Kubi kakhuluUkulunywa kufuna ugqirha. Ukufa kunqabe 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?

Shedao island pit viper malunga ne-70 cm ubude (2,3 ft)Ikati yasekhaya malunga ne-50 cm (1,6 ft)Inja malunga ne-1 m (3,3 ft)
ubude obulingana neebhanana eziyi-4 zilandelelanasingagqiba iimitha ezili-100 ngemizuzwana eyi-100 (owona mntu ukhawulezayo udinga i-9,6)

U-Shedao island pit viper mkhulu kangakanani xa uthelekisa NAWE?

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

Sikhawuleza kangakanani?

kufanelekile ukwazi

Iinyaniso

1

Around 1938, Koba estimated about one snake for every square metre on the south-eastern part of the island.1

2

Researchers have found individual snakes waiting in ambush that already held two or three freshly swallowed birds.1

3

Larger snakes also scavenge birds that smaller snakes have struck and killed but are too small to eat.1

4

The snakes are only active during the months when migrating birds visit the island, and are inactive for the rest of the year.1

5

In 1982, Huang counted about 9,100 to 11,500 snakes on the island during spring and autumn, when the snakes were active.1

Kwiingcali zetyhefu

Igama lenzululwazi
Gloydius shedaoensis
Iqela
Ii-pit viper
Usapho
Viperidae2
Ucwangco
Squamata
Amazwekazi
IAsiya
Ingozi ebantwini
3 / 5: Kubi kakhulu3

Apho iinyaniso zivela khona

  1. Gloydius shedaoensis (Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0))
  2. Gloydius shedaoensis (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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