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Small-scaled burrowing asp

Atractaspis microlepidota

SinokubulalaSinokukubulala ukuba awunyangwanga. Ukuba siyakuluma, fumana uncedo ngokukhawuleza.

Iinyoka ezinamazinyo etyhefu ngasemva

UkulumaSitya: Inyama

Ingozi ebantwini: Siyingozi kakhuluSinokubulala umntu ongafumani nyango.

The small-scaled burrowing asp is a black snake that lives underground in parts of West Africa. It is a venomous snake with long, hollow fangs, and scientists have studied it only a few times in the wild. It is interesting because it uses its fangs in an unusual way.1

Sihlala

Senegal, Gambia, southern Mauritania and western Mali in West Africa1

IAfrika

Ekhaya

This snake likes to burrow, and most of its prey also lives underground.1

Ubude

75 cm (2,5 ft)1

Esona santya siphezulu

malunga ne-4,8 km/h (3 mph)

Emhlabeni, uqikelelo nje

Sitya ntoni?

Its diet is not well studied. Snakes of its genus have been found with small rodents, birds, lizards, frogs, locusts and white ants in their stomachs or mouths. It stabs prey from the side, often underground, using one fang.1

Indlela yokusiqaphela

Black in colour, with a lighter, flatter belly than its back1
Smooth body scales1
Flattened head with a blunt snout, covered in plates rather than small scales1
Short tail and a neck that is not well defined1
Average length about 45 cm, with some reaching 75 cm1

Sidla ngokubhidaniswa no: It is often confused with vipers (family Viperidae) because its long, hollow fangs look similar. Its head is covered in plates, while vipers have small scales on the head.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 thick and slightly milky in appearance. It appears to be related to elapid venom rather than viper venom. In humans, the bite may first cause pain near the bite, followed by numbness and swelling in the same area.1

Siyingozi kangakanani ebantwini?

Ingozi ebantwini: Siyingozi kakhuluSinokubulala umntu ongafumani nyango.

Its venom is not considered very lethal to humans. However, there have been deaths, mainly among younger children.1

Senza ntoni xa soyika?

It sits still with its nose pointing towards the ground, as if ready to dive into the soil, though this has been seen only a few times.1

Ukuba siyaluma

Hlamba indawo elunyiweyo, gcina umntu ezolile kwaye ufumane uncedo lwezonyango. Ezinye iintlobo (njenge-boomslang) zinokubulala 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 neebhanana eziyi-4 zilandelelanasingagqiba iimitha ezili-100 ngemizuzwana eyi-75 (owona mntu ukhawulezayo udinga i-9,6)

U-Small-scaled burrowing asp 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)

Small-scaled burrowing asp malunga ne-4,8 km/h (3 mph)

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

kufanelekile ukwazi

Iinyaniso

It has long, hollow fangs, but usually uses only one of them to stab its prey.1

When given several mice, it envenomated all of them before going back to eat them.1

Most of its prey burrows, so many of its strikes happen underground, where there is little room to move.1

Umqhekezi weentsomi

Intsomi: It is a viper, because it has long hollow fangs like vipers.

Inyaniso: It is not closely related to vipers. Its fangs are similar, but it is more closely related to the families Colubridae and Elapidae, and its venom is unlike viper venom.1

Kwiingcali zetyhefu

Igama lenzululwazi: Atractaspis microlepidota
Iqela: Iinyoka ezinamazinyo etyhefu ngasemva
Usapho: Atractaspididae2
Ucwangco: Squamata
Amazwekazi: IAfrika
Iintsana: It lays eggs that hatch outside the body.1
Ingozi ebantwini: 4 / 5: Siyingozi kakhulu3

Apho iinyaniso zivela khona

Small-scaled burrowing asp (Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0))
Atractaspis microlepidota (iNaturalist): amagama nokuhlelwa.
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