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The snake's common names include Gaboon viper, butterfly adder, forest puff adder, whisper, [5] swampjack, [5] and Gaboon adder. [4] [10] Originally a name given by the Portuguese, Gabon (Gabão) refers to the estuary on which the town of Libreville was built, in Gabon, and to a narrow strip of territory on either bank of this arm of the sea.
Each episode contains stories of cases of either a species (chimpanzee, tiger) or a class (reptiles, big cats) of animals — referred to in the show as "exotic" — escaping and attacking their owners or those around them. Each story within an episode is told through flashbacks and re-enactments, narrated by actress Jana Sheldon.
[10] 10: Gabon Coast: Steve Backshall is in Gabon's Loango National Park to find more animals for the deadly list. In the jungle, Steve spots a some western lowland gorillas, a critically endangered specie. Steve and the crew go in search of Nile crocodiles. During a nighttime wonder through the jungle, a leaf is found full of Tiger Beetles.
Common names: West African Gaboon viper, [1] Gabino viper [4] Bitis rhinoceros is a viper species [3] [5] endemic to West Africa. Like all vipers, it is venomous. It can be easily distinguished from the closely related species B. gabonica by the presence of two large nasal "horns". [4]
It is the second longest venomous snake species in the world and is the fastest moving land snake, capable of moving at 4.32 to 5.4 metres per second (16–20 km/h, 10–12 mph). [13] [14] The black mamba is the most feared snake in Africa because of its size, aggression, venom toxicity and speed of onset of symptoms following envenomation, [15 ...
Size variation within this genus is extreme, ranging from the very small B. schneideri, which grows to a maximum of 28 cm (11 in) and is perhaps the world's smallest viperid, to the very large B. gabonica, which can attain a length over 2 m (6.6 ft) and is the heaviest viper in the world.
A Salt Lake City zoo has welcomed the world’s deadliest cat, which apparently is also the cutest. On Dec. 28, Utah’s Hogle Zoo announced the arrival of its newest resident: Gaia, an 8-month ...
Bitis rhinoceros, West African gaboon viper; Bitis rubida, Red adder; Bitis schneideri, Namaqua dwarf adder; Bitis worthingtoni, Kenyan horned viper; Bitis xeropaga, Desert mountain adder; Causus, night adders Causus bilineatus, lined night adder, two-striped night adder; Causus defilippii, snouted night adder; Causus lichtensteinii, forest ...