West African Gaboon viper
咬The West African Gaboon viper is a venomous snake with a pair of enlarged scales on its nose that look like horns. It lives in West Africa, in countries such as Ghana, Ivory Coast, Liberia and Sierra Leone. Like all vipers, it can bite and inject venom.1

怎麼認出牠
- Has a distinctive pair of enlarged nasal scales that look like horns on its nose.1
- The dark triangular marking running from the eye back towards the corner of the mouth is not divided.1
- Its head is broader than that of its close relative B. nasicornis.1
- Overall it is somewhat larger than B. gabonica.1
常被誤認為: The close relative B. nasicornis also has horn-like nasal scales, but it has a brighter colour pattern and a narrower head. B. gabonica is overall somewhat smaller, and in B. g. gabonica the dark marking from the eye to the mouth is divided, which it is not in this snake.1
毒液力量
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: 非常危險如果沒有治療,牠可能會害死一個人。
如果牠咬人
- 讓傷者保持不動和冷靜,讓被咬的手臂或腿保持在和心臟一樣的高度,取下戒指和緊身的東西,並趕快送醫院。
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
牠有多大?
牠有多長?
跟 2,5 隻家貓從鼻子接到尾巴一樣長
跟 7 根香蕉頭尾相接一樣長
可以在 92 秒內跑完 100 公尺(最快的人類需要 9.6 秒)West African Gaboon viper 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?
小知識
Its nose has a pair of enlarged scales that look like a pair of horns.1
In Ghana and Togo, which are at the eastern edge of its range, it meets and interbreeds with the Gaboon viper B. gabonica.1
In 2022, residents of Ota in Nigeria reported sighting one, which extended its known range to include Nigeria.1
知識的出處
- Bitis rhinoceros (Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0))
- Bitis rhinoceros (iNaturalist): 名稱和分類。
- Venom Wiki: 危險等級、一般大小和速度估計都是我們自己定的。看看我們是怎麼算出來的: 我們怎麼評估危險.
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