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Small-scaled burrowing asp

Atractaspis microlepidota

可能致命不治療的話可能會害死你。如果牠咬了你，要趕快求救。

咬吃：肉

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

分布在

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

非洲

首頁

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

長度

75 cm (2,5 ft)1

最高速度

大約 4,8 km/h（3 mph）

在陸地上, 粗略估計

牠吃什麼？

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

怎麼認出牠

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

常被誤認為： 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

毒液力量

咬

咬的時候，毒液會從毒牙或牙齒出來。

牠的毒液有什麼作用？

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

牠對人有多危險？

對人的危險: 非常危險如果沒有治療，牠可能會害死一個人。

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

牠害怕時會做什麼？

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

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 4 根香蕉頭尾相接一樣長可以在 75 秒內跑完 100 公尺（最快的人類需要 9.6 秒）

Small-scaled 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)

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

一個正在走路的人 大約 5 km/h (3,1 mph)

值得知道

小知識

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

破解迷思

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

真相： 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