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Small-scaled burrowing asp

Atractaspis microlepidota

可致命不治疗可能会要你的命。如果它咬了你，赶快求助。

咬伤吃：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

生活在

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

非洲

首页

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

长度

75 cm (2.5 ft)1

最高速度

约 4.8 公里/小时（3 英里/小时）

在陆地上, 粗略估计

它吃什么？

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

怎样认出它

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

常被误认为： 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 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

它对人有多危险？

对人的危险: 非常危险不治疗可能会害死人。

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

它害怕时会做什么？

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

如果它咬人

清洗咬伤处，让人保持冷静并就医。有些种类（比如非洲树蛇）可能几小时后才致命。

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75 秒就能跑完 100 米（最快的人需要 9.6 秒）

Small-scaled burrowing asp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)

Small-scaled burrowing asp 约 4.8 公里/小时 (3 mph)

一个在走路的人 约 5 公里/小时 (3.1 mph)

值得了解

事实

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

谣言粉碎机

谣言： 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