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Twin-spotted rattlesnake

Crotalus pricei
Malunga negama: Its scientific name, pricei, honours William Wightman "Billy" Price, a field biologist who collected the first specimens.1
Kubuhlungu njeKubuhlungu, kodwa akusayi kukwenzakalisa kakhulu.
Ii-rattlesnake UkulumaSitya: Inyama
Ingozi ebantwini: KubuhlunguKunokuba buhlungu ngokwenene, kodwa phantse akusoze kube kubi kakhulu.

The twin-spotted rattlesnake is a small venomous snake that lives among rocky mountains in the south-western United States and northern Mexico. It is a pit viper, a group of snakes that use heat-sensing pits to find their prey. No bites to people from this snake have been recorded.1

Sihlala
Southwestern United States (south-eastern Arizona) and northern Mexico, including Sonora, Chihuahua, Durango and parts of Coahuila and Nuevo León1
uMntla Melika
Ekhaya
It lives amid mountain rocks, where nights are often cold. Its range covers the Sierra Madre Occidental and Sierra Madre Oriental mountain ranges.1
Ubude
66 cm (2,2 ft)1
Esona santya siphezulu
malunga ne-3,3 km/h (2,1 mph)
Emhlabeni, uqikelelo nje
Sitya ntoni?
It hunts small rodents and lizards.1
Ngokwenene!Ifoto ka-Twin-spotted rattlesnake
Twin-spotted rattlesnake. Ifoto: Juan Cruzado Cortés. CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons.

Indlela yokusiqaphela

  • Ground colour is grey, bluish-grey, brownish-grey, or medium to reddish-brown, usually with fine brown speckling1
  • A series of dark blotches runs along the back, often split down the middle to form 39 to 64 pairs1
  • It is a small rattlesnake, usually 50 to 60 cm long including the tail1
  • It has a rattle at the tail end1

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 not well studied. Some have suggested it may be highly potent, but little is known about its effects on the body.1

Siyingozi kangakanani ebantwini?

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

No bites to humans from this snake have been recorded.1

Senza ntoni xa soyika?

It may rattle furiously at people passing by, although the sound can be hard to hear among the rocks. Its colour pattern helps it blend with the light and shadow of the mountains.1

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?

Twin-spotted rattlesnake malunga ne-66 cm ubude (2,2 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-110 (owona mntu ukhawulezayo udinga i-9,6)

U-Twin-spotted rattlesnake mkhulu kangakanani xa uthelekisa NAWE?

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

Sikhawuleza kangakanani?

kufanelekile ukwazi

Iinyaniso

1

Its blotchy pattern looks bizarre to us, but it helps the snake blend into the mountain rocks.1

2

Its rattle can be sounded furiously, yet it can be hard to hear in its rocky home.1

Umqhekezi weentsomi

Intsomi: Its venom is known to be very potent and dangerous to people.

Inyaniso: High potency has only been suggested. Little is known about its venom, and no bites to humans have been recorded.1

Kwiingcali zetyhefu

Igama lenzululwazi
Crotalus pricei
Iqela
Ii-rattlesnake
Usapho
Viperidae2
Ucwangco
Squamata
Amazwekazi
uMntla Melika
Imeko yaso endle
Least Concern1
Ingozi ebantwini
2 / 5: Kubuhlungu3

Apho iinyaniso zivela khona

  1. Crotalus pricei (Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0))
  2. Crotalus pricei (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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