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Blotched palm pitviper

Bothriechis supraciliaris

需要看医生很少致命，但被咬了要去看医生。

咬伤吃：肉

The blotched eyelash-pitviper is a venomous snake that lives in the mountain forests of southern Costa Rica and western Panama. It spends much of its time in trees and is active mainly at dusk or at night. Its bite can cause serious bleeding and muscle damage, so it is important to recognise it and keep well away.1

生活在

Southern Costa Rica (between San Isidro and San Vito) and western Panama, in the Talamanca Mountains1

北美洲

首页

It lives in the trees of evergreen lower-montane forests and cloud forests. It also lives in clearings with coffee and banana plantations, at the edges of farm fields, and in rural gardens.1

长度

50 cm到80 cm (1.6 ft到2.6 ft)1

最高速度

约 3.4 公里/小时（2.1 英里/小时）

在陆地上, 粗略估计

它吃什么？

It eats frogs, including Fitzinger's robber frog, and small rodents that live on the forest floor.1

Blotched palm pitviper的照片 — Blotched palm pitviper。照片：Alejandro Arteaga, R. Alexander Pyron, Abel Batista, Jose Vieira, Elson Meneses Pelayo, Eric N. Smith, César L. Barrio Amorós, Claudia Koch, Stefanie Agne, Jorg。 CC BY 4.0, Wikimedia Commons.

怎样认出它

Usually bright green or moss-green, though it can also be bluish-green, reddish-brown or reddish-maroon.1
Irregular dark blotches run along the back, and these sometimes join to form crossbands.1
The belly is light in colour.1
The head has dark stripes and prominent scales above the eyes, which give it the name eyelash-pitviper.1
Usually 50–60 cm long including the tail, and can reach 80 cm.1

毒液之力

咬伤

它咬的时候，毒液通过毒牙或牙齿出来。

它的毒液会造成什么？

Its venom has a potent haemorrhagic action, which damages blood vessels and causes bleeding. It also has moderate myotoxicity, which destroys muscle tissue, and a very weak procoagulant effect, which can slightly speed up clotting.1

它对人有多危险？

对人的危险: 严重被咬了要去看医生。死亡非常罕见。

好消息：医生有药（抗毒血清）或治疗方法。1

如果它咬人

让人保持安静不动，被咬的肢体与心脏保持同一高度，摘下戒指和紧身物品，尽快送医院。

一定先拨打你的急救电话（112、000、911）。这里是一般急救指导，不是医疗建议。急救基础

注意安全

永远不要摸、抓或逗弄野生动物，即使是很小的，即使它看起来在睡觉或已经死了。
给它留出空间。如果遇到它，保持冷静，慢慢后退，让它走自己的路。
如果被它咬了：保持冷静，保持不动，拨打你的急救电话（112、000、911）或尽快去医院。记住它长什么样，拍张照片会有帮助。

它不是冲着你来的。它用毒液捕猎或保护自己，而且它更愿意躲起来。更多安全知识

在世界哪里？

非洲亚洲欧洲北美洲南美洲澳大利亚和大洋洲

它有多大？

它有多长？

和 1.5 只家猫鼻子接尾巴一样长和 4 根香蕉首尾相接一样长110 秒就能跑完 100 米（最快的人需要 9.6 秒）

Blotched palm pitviper和你比起来有多大？

只是在你的浏览器里算一算。什么都不会被保存或发送到任何地方。

它有多快？

一只陆龟 约 0.3 公里/小时 (0.19 mph)

Blotched palm pitviper 约 3.4 公里/小时 (2.1 mph)

一个在走路的人 约 5 公里/小时 (3.1 mph)

值得了解

事实

Unlike most other Bothriechis species, it spends more time on the ground, and it may rest on the ground or at the base of trees and shrubs during the day.1

Its venom has an estimated LD50 of 6.04 mg/kg. LD50 is the dose that is expected to kill half of a test group, so a lower number means a more toxic venom.1

An antivenom made in horses, using venoms from Bothrops asper, Crotalus simus and another snake species, has been reported to neutralise its venom in tests.1

Females are longer and thicker than males, and this is the only difference between the sexes that has been noted.1