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Baby habu snakes already have venom when they hatch.
THE REAL WORLD
The real Habu
- Scientific name
- Protobothrops flavoviridis
- Japanese name
- ハブ
- Group
- Amphibians and reptiles
- Class
- Reptilia
- Order
- Squamata
- Family
- Viperidae
- Genus
- Protobothrops
A snake of the Okinawa and Amami islands. It could be anywhere with grass or trees, such as mountains, fields, farms and parks.
Its food is almost all rats and mice. It is very sensitive to heat and smell, and when it finds prey it strikes in an instant and injects venom through its fangs.
It is active at night and rarely comes out into open places by day. It often climbs trees, and it does not hibernate in winter.
How the Habu lives
It mates in spring. In early summer, it lays eggs inside holes. Around autumn, the young poke their heads out of their eggs.
天城町沖縄県沖縄県Basic data
Where the Habu has been recorded
Records: GBIF.org (CC0 and CC BY 4.0 records, retrieved 2026-11-07). Map: Natural EarthSee the records on GBIF
Watch wild animals from a distance. Do not touch or feed them, and take care of the places where they live.
Names around the world
- 日本語
- ハブ
- 简体中文
- 波布蛇
- 繁體中文
- 波布蛇
- 한국어
- 반시뱀
- Deutsch
- Habuschlange
Names come from Wikidata and iNaturalist records. Where a language has no recorded name, we use the scientific name.
Sources and how we check
- 沖縄県 — ハブの分布Checked: 2026-11-03
- 沖縄県 — ハブの生活Checked: 2026-11-03
- 天城町 — ハブ ( Okinawa habu )Checked: 2026-11-06
- 沖縄県 — ハブについてChecked: 2026-11-06
We check each fact against its source. The illustrations simplify how the real animal looks.
The classification (class, order, family, genus) follows Wikidata records, checked against GBIF. Classifications can change as research goes on.
The basic data are the values given in each source. They vary with how the animal is measured, whether it is male or female, and whether it lives in the wild or in captivity.
This page was translated from the original Japanese with the help of AI.
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