eyelash viper
bothriechis schlegelii latin

Eyelash vipers show a set of modified scales over the eyes which look much like eyelashes.

The Eyelash Viper comes in many colors like green, yellow, red, brown or even pink.

The Eyelash Viper is viviparous, meaning it gives live birth.

Each year several farmers and plantation workers are bitten by eyelash vipers, sometimes resulting in fatalities.

The Eyelash Viper likes to live in humid, tropical areas not far from a water source.

Eyelash vipers are arguably the world's most beautiful snakes - and one of its most...

It is not known to be aggressive, but if annoyed or disturbed the Eyelash Viper doesn't hesitate to strike.

Unfortunately this little-known fact is common knowledge among eyelash vipers, who lie in wait for humming bird suppers.

The Eyelash Viper is nocturnal.

Eyelash viper at WhoZoo.

At the World of Reptiles, they can see eggs and hatchlings, including native spotted turtles and eyelash vipers.

The eyelash viper (Bothriechis schlegelii) is a venomous pit viper species found in Central and South America.

There are about 20 venomous snakes, including colorful coral snakes and various vipers such as the common eyelash viper and two formidable, large bushmasters.

It gets the name "Eyelash Viper" because it has a small group of scales over its eyes which make it look like the snake has eyelashes.

In 2001, the Zoo added eyelash vipers to its collection and opened the Gorilla Rainforest, the world's largest indoor habitat for Lowland Gorillas.

The Eyelash Viper is found in southern Mexico, southeastward to the Atlantic lowlands, through Central America to northern South America in Colombia and Venezuela.

Sites www.whozoo.org/herps/snakes/snakes.htm A photo gallery of snakes at the Fort Worth Zoo in Texas, from the bright pink Eyelash Viper to the white-ringed California Kingsnake.

There were many varieties of snakes and lizards in the past (many had to depart as a result ; rhinoceros ratsnake, garter snakes and eyelash vipers now being the only remaining.

Wyeth in the United States and Instituto Clodomiro Picado in Costa Rica both manufacture different polyvalent antivenins which can be used to treat eyelash viper envenomations.

The list of animals include three monkey species (white-face capuchins, mantled howlers and spiders), pacas and aguotis, keel-billed toucans, white-crowned parrots, strawberry poison-dart frogs, eyelash vipers and green iguanas.

The Eyelash Viper is also known as the "Eyelash Mountain Viper", the "Horned Palm Viper", the "Schlegel's Viper", and the "Eyelash Palm-Pit viper".

Then there was the Costa Rican rain forest where the impatient guide took the rest of our small group on while my husband sat fiddling with his f-stops and changing a roll of film while I stood next to him nervously waiting for the eyelash vipers to drop from the trees.

Bothriechis schlegelii show a set of modified scale (zoology) over the eyes which look much like eyelashes.

The scientific name ,"Bothriechis Schlegelii", is named after a German ornithologist, Hermann Schlegel.

The Eyelash Viper (Bothriechis Schlegelii) is a species of venomous Pit viper found in Central and South America.