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  2. Gaboon viper - Wikipedia

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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 ...

  3. Bitis rhinoceros - Wikipedia

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    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]

  4. Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/West African Gaboon Viper

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  5. Elapidae - Wikipedia

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    Furthermore, they can also be sluggish, ambush predators with partially fragmented head shields, similar to rattlesnakes or Gaboon vipers. Sea snakes (the Hydrophiinae), sometimes considered to be a separate family, have adapted to a marine way of life in different ways and to various degrees. All have evolved paddle-like tails for swimming and ...

  6. List of viperine species and subspecies - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of all genera, species and subspecies of the subfamily Viperinae, otherwise referred to as viperines, true vipers, pitless vipers or Old World vipers. It follows the taxonomy of McDiarmid et al. (1999) [ 1 ] and ITIS .

  7. List of dangerous snakes - Wikipedia

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    The snakes used for the study were milked seven to 11 times over a 12-month period, during which they remained in good health and the potency of their venom remained the same. [63] In addition, Gaboon vipers produce the most painful bite of any venomous snake in the world.

  8. Investigators found 11 children working 'dangerous' overnight ...

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    A cleaning company has been fined $171,000 after federal investigators found 11 children working a "dangerous" overnight shift at a meat processing plant in Iowa. The U.S. Labor Department sa id ...

  9. Puff adder - Wikipedia

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    The first three or four sublabials contact the chin shields, of which only one pair exists. Often, two fangs are on each maxilla, and both can be functional. [4] [7] Midbody, the snake has 29–41 rows of dorsal scales. These are strongly keeled except for the outermost rows. The ventral scale count is 123–147, the subcaudals number 14–38 ...