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Large-scaled pit viper

Craspedocephalus macrolepis

需要看医生很少致命，但被咬了要去看医生。

咬伤吃：肉

The large-scaled pit viper is a venomous snake that lives only in the southern Western Ghats mountains of South India. It is a bright green tree-dweller that hunts at night from high, cool forest. Tea pickers meet it often, which is why it matters to people who work on those plantations.1

生活在

Mountains of the southern Western Ghats, Kerala and Tamil Nadu states, South India1

亚洲

首页

It is a slow-moving, nocturnal snake that prefers rainforest. It is also found in tea, coffee and cardamom plantations, where tea pickers are frequently bitten.1

长度

68 cm (2.2 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 feeds mainly on frogs, lizards, small birds and rodents. It is an ambush hunter that relies on camouflage to catch prey, and uses heat-sensing pits on its face to find warm-blooded animals.1

Large-scaled pit viper的照片 — Large-scaled pit viper。照片：Uaijth。 CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons.

怎样认出它

Bright green on the back, sometimes with blackish skin between the scales1
A yellow or white stripe runs along each side of the body1
Pale green upper lips, and sometimes a black streak behind the eye1
Large, keeled, overlapping scales in 12 to 15 rows at the middle of the body1
Often active at night, moving through trees and on the ground with a prehensile tail that grips branches1

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 is presumed to be hemotoxic, meaning it is thought to act on the blood. This has not been studied thoroughly, so the details of its effects are not well known.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。

Tea pickers are frequently bitten by this species, but the bites are seldom fatal.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 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）

Large-scaled pit viper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)

Large-scaled pit viper 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

It is a high-elevation specialist and is not normally recorded below 1200 m, with records between 1200 and 2695 m.1

It has an even number of dorsal scale rows, which is frequently found in this species but uncommon in snakes in general.1

给毒液专家

学名: Craspedocephalus macrolepis
类别: 蝮蛇
家人: Viperidae2
排序: Squamata
大洲: 亚洲
宝宝: It lays eggs. Sexually mature females lay clutches of 4 to 7 eggs, usually in October.1
对人的危险: 3 / 5: 严重3