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Slender burrowing asp

Atractaspis aterrima

名字的由來： The species name aterrima means "blackest", from the Latin word ater, meaning "black".1

需要看醫生很少致命，但被咬了需要看醫生。

後毒牙蛇

咬吃：肉

對人的危險: 嚴重被咬了需要看醫生。死亡案例非常罕見。

The slender burrowing asp is a venomous snake that spends much of its life underground. It lives across large parts of West, Central and East Africa. Its shiny black body and burrowing life make it easy to overlook.1

分布在

West, Central and East Africa, from Senegal east to Tanzania1

非洲

首頁

It lives in coastal grasslands, dry and moist savannas, and forests. It is fossorial, which means it is adapted to living and moving underground.1

長度

81 cm (2,7 ft)1

最高速度

大約 4,7 km/h（2,9 mph）

在陸地上, 粗略估計

牠吃什麼？

It eats elongated vertebrates such as caecilians, lizards and other snakes, some of which are also burrowing animals. One studied snake had eaten a large caecilian.1

Slender burrowing asp 的照片 — Slender burrowing asp。照片：Dérozier Violette。 CC BY 4.0, iNaturalist.

怎麼認出牠

Adults are usually black, blackish-grey or blackish brown, and can be very glossy, with a blackish-blue sheen.1
Juveniles are usually brown.1
Adults can reach about 81 cm for males and 71 cm for females.1
It has 19 to 23 scale rows around the middle of the body.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。

如果牠咬人

清洗咬傷處，讓傷者保持冷靜，並且就醫。有些種類（例如非洲樹蛇）可能在幾個小時後才致命。

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 1,5 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 77 秒內跑完 100 公尺（最快的人類需要 9.6 秒）

Slender burrowing asp 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？

一隻陸龜 大約 0,3 km/h (0,19 mph)

Slender burrowing asp 大約 4,7 km/h (2,9 mph)

一個正在走路的人 大約 5 km/h (3,1 mph)

值得知道

小知識

A studied snake had eaten a caecilian that was larger than the snake was long in relation to its own size, which was unusual because an earlier study had suggested it eats smaller prey.1

Its scientific name, aterrima, means "blackest", which fits its dark, glossy body.1

It is a burrowing snake, so it spends much of its time underground.1