Southern hognose snake
The southern hognose snake is a stout, harmless snake with a sharply upturned nose. It lives on the coastal plain of the southeastern United States, where it hunts toads and other small animals.1

Indlela yokusiqaphela
- A stout body with a wide neck and a sharply upturned snout1
- A light brown, yellowish, grey or reddish base colour with a distinct row of dark blotches along the back1
- Smaller dark blotches alternate with the main blotches along the sides1
- About 25 rows of keeled (ridged) scales around the middle of the body1
- Young snakes have a belly that is clearly darker than the underside of the tail. As they age, the underside usually turns pale white1
Amandla etyhefu yokuluma nokuhlaba
Ityhefu iphuma ngamazinyo aso etyhefu okanye ngamazinyo aso xa siluma.
Siyingozi kangakanani ebantwini?
Ingozi ebantwini: KuthambileNjengokuhlatywa yinyosi okanye ngaphantsi. Phantse asinangozi ebantwini.It is described as harmless to people.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
Sikhulu kangakanani?
Side kangakanani?
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Zizibalo nje kwibhrawuza yakho. Akukho nto igcinwayo okanye ithunyelwa naphi na.
Sikhawuleza kangakanani?
Iinyaniso
Toads make up most of its diet, which sets it apart from many snakes that mainly eat other animals.1
Hatchlings are already 15 to 18 cm long, which is a large size for a newborn snake.1
Its upturned snout is an adaptation that gives the species its common name.1
The Alabama Department of Conservation and Natural Resources lists it as possibly extirpated (locally extinct) in that state.1
It is classified as Vulnerable on the IUCN Red List, meaning it faces a high risk of extinction in the wild.1
Kwiingcali zetyhefu
- Igama lenzululwazi
- Heterodon simus
- Iqela
- Iinyoka ezinamazinyo etyhefu ngasemva
- Usapho
- Colubridae2
- Ucwangco
- Squamata
- Amazwekazi
- uMntla Melika
- Iintsana
- It lays eggs. Clutches contain 6 to 14 thin-shelled, leathery, whitish eggs, which hatch after 55 to 60 days.1
- Imeko yaso endle
- Vulnerable (IUCN Red List, assessed 2007)1
- Ingozi ebantwini
- 1 / 5: Kuthambile3
Apho iinyaniso zivela khona
- Southern hognose snake (Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0))
- Heterodon simus (iNaturalist): amagama nokuhlelwa.
- Venom Wiki: inqanaba lengozi, ubungakanani obuqhelekileyo noqikelelo lwesantya zezethu. Bona indlela esizifumana ngayo: Indlela esilinganisa ngayo ingozi.
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