urutu
wutuu
crossed pit viper
bothrops alternatus latin

In Portuguese, the snake was known as an urutu.

The common names urutu and wutu refer to the crescent markings on the body.

The vehicles will replace the old Urutu armored vehicle employed today by the Brazilian armed forces.

Light armored cars and personnel carriers like the Cascavel and the Urutu, which were not offered elsewhere, quickly became best sellers.

Common names: urutu, wutu, crossed pit viper.

The EE-11 Urutu is a 6x6 armored personnel carrier developed by Engesa of Brazil.

The brigade was equipped with Brazilian made Engesa EE-11 Urutu wheeled armored personnel carriers.

Bothrops alternatus, a.k.a. the urutu, found in southeastern Brazil, Paraguay, Uruguay and northern Argentina.

The vehicles are on order from General Dynamics Land Systems to partially replace their M113s and gradually replace the EE-11 Urutu.

Other reported wheeled vehicles in service include 100 EE-11 Urutu, and Polish-Czechoslovak OT-64 SKOT.

Card and a team of Cincinnati Zoo herpetologists discovered Hall was sharing her home with over a dozen illegally-acquired snakes and lizards, including the urutu whose bite had killed her.

Hall had driven herself to a Cincinnati hospital and collapsed upon reaching the emergency room, managing to tell the doctors that she had been bitten by an urutu pit viper before she lost consciousness, dying two days later of a bleed in the brain.

The VBTP-MR Guarani is a 6x6 armored personnel carrier developed by the Brazilian Army as part of its "URUTU-III" modernization program aimed to replace all EE-11 Urutu by 2015.

On the 26 November 2009, the Brazilian Defense Minister, Nelson Jobim, announced that President Lula had authorized the start of production for 2044 new vehicles with the new name Guarani, formerly known as Urutu III.

Common names: urutu, wutu, crossed pit viper.

Reptiles include venomous snakes such as the Patagonian pit viper Bothrops ammodytoides and crossed pit viper Bothrops alternatus.