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Eastern green mamba

Dendroaspis angusticeps

Mayelana negama: The species name angusticeps comes from Latin words meaning 'narrow' and 'head'.1

KuyabulalaEsinye sezilwane ezibulala kakhulu eMhlabeni. Uma sikuluma, biza usizo khona manjalo.Usizo olusheshayo ne-antivenom kusindisa abantu abaningi. Shayela inombolo yezimo eziphuthumayo khona manjalo.

Izimfezi, izimamba nama-krait

UkulumaSidla: Inyama

Ingozi ebantwini: KuyabulalaEsinye sezilwane eziyingozi kakhulu emhlabeni.

The eastern green mamba is a highly venomous snake with a slender body and bright green back. It lives in trees along the coasts of southern and East Africa. Although it is one of the most common green mambas, it is shy and usually hidden in leaves, so it is rarely seen.1

Ihlala

Coastal regions of East and southern Africa, from Kenya south through Tanzania and Mozambique to KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, plus Zanzibar.1

I-Afrika

Ekhaya

It is mainly a tree-dweller that prefers dense, shady vegetation, including forest, thickets and farm trees such as citrus, mango, coconut and cashew. In coastal East Africa it sometimes enters houses and may shelter in thatched roofs.1

Ubude

1.8 m kuya ku-2.5 m (5.9 ft kuya ku-8.2 ft)1

Ijubane eliphezulu

cishe 8.3 km/h (5.2 mph)

Emhlabathini, isiqagela nje

Sidlani?

It eats birds and their eggs and chicks, small mammals including bats, arboreal rodents and arboreal lizards. It usually waits in ambush for prey, though it has also been seen actively hunting a sleeping bat.1

Isithombe sika-Eastern green mamba — Eastern green mamba. Isithombe: Dick Culbert. CC BY 4.0, iNaturalist.

Indlela yokusibona

Bright green upperparts, sometimes with a few isolated yellow scales.1
Pale yellow-green belly.1
Juveniles are blue-green and turn bright green at about 75 cm long.1
Long, slender, coffin-shaped head. It can flatten its neck into a slight hood when threatened.1
The inside of the mouth is white or bluish-white.1

Ivamise ukudidaniswa ne: Green forms of the boomslang are often called green mambas in Southern Africa. They have larger eyes and shorter heads. Green bush snakes of the genus Philothamnus are often confused with smaller eastern green mambas. The boomslang is also venomous.1

Amandla obuthi

Ukuluma

Ubuthi buphuma ngamazinyo aso obuthi noma ngamazinyo uma siluma.

Ubuthi baso benzani?

Its venom contains neurotoxins, which attack the nerves, and cardiotoxins, which damage the heart. Symptoms include swelling at the bite, dizziness, nausea, dehydration, laboured breathing and difficulty swallowing. These can progress to irregular heartbeat, convulsions and respiratory paralysis, which stops breathing and can be fatal. Paralysis may be mild or absent.1

Siyingozi kangakanani ebantwini?

Ingozi ebantwini: KuyabulalaEsinye sezilwane eziyingozi kakhulu emhlabeni.

A survey in southern Africa from 1957 to 1979 recorded 17 bites confirmed as eastern green mambas. Ten of these caused systemic envenomation, and no victims died. Bites are most common from September to February, the breeding season, when the snake is most irritable. The average dose able to kill a human is about 18 to 20 mg of venom, and one bite can deliver 60 to 95 mg (dry weight). In 2024, a YouTuber died after being bitten, following anaphylactic shock.1

Senzani uma sesabile?

It is shy and avoids people and predators, attacking only when it feels threatened, and it can flatten its neck into a hood.1

Uma siluma

Severe bites must be treated immediately on site, as they can quickly prove deadly.1
Gcina umuntu engashukumi futhi ezolile, khipha izindandatho nezinto eziqinile, bese umusa esibhedlela ngokushesha: i-antivenom iyikhambi.

Njalo shayela kuqala inombolo yezimo eziphuthumayo (112, 000, 911). Lokhu kuyiseluleko sosizo lokuqala esijwayelekile, akusona iseluleko sezokwelapha. Izisekelo zosizo lokuqala

Hlala uphephile

Ungalokothi uthinte, ubambe noma ugcone isilwane sasendle, ngisho noma sincane, futhi ngisho noma sibukeka silele noma sifile.
Sinike isikhala. Uma uhlangana naso, hlala uzolile, uhlehle kancane bese usiyeka sihambe ngendlela yaso.
Uma sikuluma: hlala uzolile, ungashukumi, shayela inombolo yezimo eziphuthumayo (112, 000, 911) noma uye esibhedlela ngokushesha. Khumbula ukuthi besibukeka kanjani, isithombe siyasiza.

Asikuzingeli wena. Sisebenzisa ubuthi baso ukuze sibambe ukudla noma ukuzivikela, futhi singancamela ukucasha. Okwengeziwe mayelana nokuhlala uphephile

Kuphi emhlabeni?

I-Afrika I-Asia I-Yurophu INyakatho Melika INingizimu Melika I-Australia ne-Oceania

Sikhulu kangakanani?

Side kangakanani?

side njengezinja ezingu-2.5 kusuka ekhaleni kuya emsileniside njengobhanana abangu-14 abalandelanayosingahamba amamitha ali-100 ngemizuzwana engu-43 (umuntu oshesha kunabo bonke udinga engu-9,6)

Eastern green mamba mkhulu kangakanani uma uqhathanisa NAWE?

Yizibalo nje kusiphequluli sakho. Akukho okulondolozwayo noma okuthunyelwa ndawo.

Sishesha kangakanani?

Umuntu ohambayo cishe 5 km/h (3.1 mph)

Eastern green mamba cishe 8.3 km/h (5.2 mph)

Ingane egibele ibhayisikili cishe 12 km/h (7.5 mph)

kuhle ukwazi

Amaqiniso

Males fight each other during the breeding season, usually entwining and pushing to pin each other's heads down. These fights can last several hours, but the snakes do not bite each other.1

Unlike most elapid snakes, which hunt actively, it often waits in ambush for its prey, a style more common among vipers.1

On average, an individual moves only about 5.4 metres per day, and it can stay in the same place for days.1

It has the least toxic venom of the three green mamba species, but it is still highly venomous.1

The oldest recorded eastern green mamba was a captive snake that lived 18.8 years.1

Umqothuli wezinganekwane

Inganekwane: It is an aggressive, fast-moving 'people-chaser'.

Iqiniso: It is shy and elusive, usually hidden in trees, and it generally avoids people. It attacks only when it feels threatened.1

Okongoti bobuthi

Igama lesayensi: Dendroaspis angusticeps
Iqembu: Izimfezi, izimamba nama-krait
Umndeni: Elapidae2
Ukuhleleka: Squamata
Amazwekazi: I-Afrika
Izinsana: The female lays 4 to 17 eggs, usually 10 to 15, in leaf litter in hollow trees, from October to November. The young measure about 30 to 45 cm in the wild.1
Isikhathi sokuphila: cishe iminyaka engu-18.81
Ingozi ebantwini: 5 / 5: Kuyabulala3

Lapho amaqiniso evela khona

Eastern green mamba (Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0))
Dendroaspis angusticeps (iNaturalist): amagama nokuhlelwa ngezigaba.
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