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Broad-headed snake

Hoplocephalus bungaroides

需要看醫生很少致命，但被咬了需要看醫生。

咬吃：肉

The broad-headed snake is a small to medium-sized venomous snake that lives only in the Sydney Basin in New South Wales, Australia. It is black with yellow markings and is rare today, so it is protected. It is easy to mistake for a young diamond python.1

分布在

Sydney Basin, New South Wales, Australia1

澳洲與大洋洲

首頁

In the colder months, adults and young shelter in crevices in sandstone outcrops on exposed cliff edges. In spring, adult males and non-breeding females move to nearby woodlands and forests, and they use hollow trees in summer. Its rocky habitat is being lost to urbanisation and to rock removal for landscaping.1

長度

90 cm (3 ft)1

最高速度

大約 6,2 km/h（3,9 mph）

在陸地上, 粗略估計

牠吃什麼？

It feeds infrequently on small reptiles and mammals. Juveniles mostly eat Lesueur's velvet gecko and sometimes small skinks, while adults also eat other lizards, small snakes and mice.1

Broad-headed snake 的照片 — Broad-headed snake。照片：Lawrence Hylton。 CC BY 4.0, iNaturalist.

怎麼認出牠

Black, with numerous irregular yellow markings arranged in narrow cross-bands.1
Small to medium-sized, averaging 60 cm in total length including the tail, though some records show lengths up to 90 cm.1
Often found on sandstone cliffs and rocks in the colder months, and in hollow trees in summer.1

常被誤認為： The young diamond python is superficially very similar and lives in the same habitat, so inexperienced people can easily confuse the two. In 2023, a man was bitten in the Southern Highlands of NSW after capturing a broad-headed snake he believed was a diamond python.1

毒液力量

咬

咬的時候，毒液會從毒牙或牙齒出來。

牠對人有多危險？

對人的危險: 嚴重被咬了需要看醫生。死亡案例非常罕見。

It is venomous and can bite. In 2023, a man was bitten after capturing one he believed was a diamond python to show his children.1

如果牠咬人

加壓固定法：用彈性繃帶緊緊包住咬傷處，再往上包住整條手臂或腿，用夾板固定，並讓傷者完全不動，直到救援抵達。
不要清洗咬傷處：醫院可以檢驗留在皮膚上的毒液，選出正確的抗毒血清。

一定要先打緊急電話（112、000、911）。這是一般急救指引，不是醫療建議。急救基本知識

注意安全

絕對不要碰、抓或捉弄野生動物，就算是很小的動物，就算牠看起來在睡覺或已經死了也一樣。
給牠空間。如果遇到了，保持冷靜，慢慢往後退，讓牠自己離開。
如果被牠咬了：保持冷靜，保持不動，打緊急電話（112、000、911）或趕快去醫院。記住牠的樣子，有照片會很有幫助。

牠不是想來抓你。牠用毒液來捕捉食物或保護自己，而且牠更想躲起來。更多安全知識

在世界上的哪裡？

非洲亞洲歐洲北美洲南美洲澳洲與大洋洲

牠有多大？

牠有多長？

跟 2 隻家貓從鼻子接到尾巴一樣長跟 5 根香蕉頭尾相接一樣長可以在 58 秒內跑完 100 公尺（最快的人類需要 9.6 秒）

Broad-headed snake 跟「你」比起來有多大？

只是在你的瀏覽器裡做算術。什麼都不會儲存，也不會傳送到任何地方。

牠有多快？

一個正在走路的人 大約 5 km/h (3,1 mph)

Broad-headed snake 大約 6,2 km/h (3,9 mph)

騎腳踏車的小朋友 大約 12 km/h (7,5 mph)

值得知道

小知識

In one documented case, a snake survived a fast lasting twelve months.1

Males take five years to reach maturity, and females take six.1

It was once common in parts of Sydney, including around Sydney Harbour.1

給毒液專家

學名: Hoplocephalus bungaroides
類群: 澳洲的蛇
家人: Elapidae2
排序: Squamata
各大洲: 澳洲與大洋洲
寶寶: It gives birth to live young, not eggs. Each litter has 4 to 12 offspring, born between January and April, and mature females produce a litter every two years.1
牠在野外的狀況: Endangered in New South Wales; Vulnerable under Commonwealth legislation1
對人的危險: 3 / 5: 嚴重3