Gaboon viper
bitis gabonica latin

A variety of snakes are found including the Gaboon Viper.

The most impressive of all fangs are those of the gaboon viper from Africa.

I ignored him, reaching cautiously past the Gaboon Viper to pick up the lighter.

The Gaboon Viper is one of three large vipers found in Africa.

The Gaboon vipers were poisonous, he said.

Primarily nocturnal, Gaboon vipers have a reputation for being slow-moving and placid.

The Gaboon Viper had two big advantages.

A big Gaboon Viper has fangs two inches long, and injects enough venom to kill five men.

Common names: West African gaboon viper.

This is unlike the gaboon viper, the largest of the vipers, who uses a considerably larger amount of venom.

They may be bitten and killed by Gaboon vipers when they accidentally rouse the venomous snake.

This enzyme is isolated from the venom of the Gaboon viper Bitis gabonica.

The vivid patterns of snake scales, such as the Gaboon Viper, both repel and fascinate the human mind.

The woods have poisonous spiders with bodies Like peaches and fangs Like gaboon vipers.

I knew what I wanted: Bitis gabonica, the Gaboon Viper.

The Gaboon viper of Africa: its large venom glands account for the distorted arrow shape of its head.

During a recent visit, my son and I came nose to nose with a gaboon viper, whose dappled skin blends beautifully with its habitat.

The Gaboon Viper opened its jaws wide and sank the fangs into his exposed neck, just to the right of his Adam's apple.

We had Gaboon vipers, puff adders, spitting cobras as well as harmless species like tree snakes and pythons.

Ms. Mueller said that bites by the West African Gaboon viper were extremely rare, mostly involving handlers, importers and professionals.

However, it hissed when teased and struggled "furiously" when restrained, suggesting its temperament may be similar to that of the Gaboon viper (B. gabonica).

It includes the rare Louisiana Pine Snake in addition to some of the most venomous snakes in the world, including the Green mamba and Gaboon viper.

Bitis gabonica, commonly known as the Gaboon viper, is a venomous viper species found in the rainforests and savannas of sub-Saharan Africa.

Marlin Perkins, who was the host of television's "Wild Kingdom" program for many years and who died in 1986, was one person who survived a bite by a Gaboon viper.

Inigo pursued him, hurrying past the poisoners, the spitting cobras and Gaboon vipers and, perhaps most quickly lethal of all, the lovely tropical stonefish from the ocean outside India.

This enzyme is isolated from the venom of the Gaboon viper Bitis gabonica.

Gaboon viper Bitis gabonica - the largest viper and one of the most intricately patterned, venomous, found only in woodland savanna and forests in the north of the country, rare.

Members of this subfamily range in size from Bitis schneideri, that grows to a maximum of 28 cm, to Bitis gabonica that reaches a maximum length of over 2 m. Most species are terrestrial, but a few, such as Atheris, are completely arboreal.