INyandezulu
INyandezulu, inyoka encane ngomzimbha, iluhlaza, ebese iba namabala amnyama cishe umzimbha wonke. Ayina buthi okusho ukuthi ayisiyo neze ingozi. Itholakala ezwenikazi I-Afrika.
Ukhelo
hlelaINyandezulu itholakala kusukela ezweni laseSudan, e-uGanda, eGuinea uye njalo empumalanga yezwekazi iyofinyelela naseTanzania kanye nase Nigeria.
Incazelo
hlelaUmbala uluhlaza okotshani, ebese iba namabala amnyama cishe umzimbha wonke. Ubude bayo bulinganiselwa kuma sentimitha angama-60 kuya kwangama-90.
Umchazampilo
hlelaINyandezulu iyinyoka ejwayele ukutholakala ezihlahleni kanye nasemahlathini lapho zizingela khona izigcibilikishi(izigaqambha) kanye namasele asezihlahleni. Zingompetha ekunompeleni kanti futhi ziyakwazi nokubhukuda, zibona kahle, kanti futhi zihlale ziqaphile lapho zikhona. Azisibo neze ogwevanendawo kanti zingahambha amabanga amade lapho ziyokweluka. Ziyizinyoka ezingesiyo ingozi (azinabuthi) kanti futhi zijwayele ukubonakala emakhaya.
INyandezulu inyoka edida imibala, ehlala egoyile, kanti zibaleka kuqala lapho zisebungozini. Akuvamisile ukuthi ibonakale emadolobheni.
Enqokobeni
hlelaKungaba nzima kakhulu ukuzigcina njengezinqoboka, ziyagoya kanti futhi azidli noma yini, kuphela nje izigcibilikishi kanye namasele asezihlahleni, kodwa bayazinqoboka baphinde baziizalanise kahle nje.
Ukuzalana
hlelaIzinsikazi zingabeka amaqanda abalelwa kwama-3 kuya kwayi-12 amajana njalo ehlobo, kuthi ichwane lona lilinganiselwe kuma sentimitha angama-25 ubude (kusukela kutshubungu kuyofinyelela emsileni).
Amaphatho
hlela- Branch, Bill. 1988. Field Guide to the Snakes and other Reptiles of Southern Africa.
Ukufunda okwengeziwe
hlela- UBranch, uBill. 2004. I-Field Guide to Snakes and Other Reptiles of Southern Africa. Sanibel Island, eFlorida: Ralph Curtis Books. 399 pp. . (I-Philothamnus semivariegatus, pp. 93-94 + Plates 30, 99).
- USmith, u-Andrew 1840. Illustrations of the Zoology of South Africa ... London: Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury. (Smith, Elder and Co., printers). (I-Dendrophis semivariegata, Plate LIX, LX, LXIV, Figure 1).