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athousanderrors ([personal profile] athousanderrors) wrote2017-05-12 10:40 am

melredcap: superwholocklover09: moongoddessgarden: Atheris...

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melredcap:

superwholocklover09:

moongoddessgarden:

Atheris squamigera, common names:  green bush viper, variable bush viper, leaf viper and others, is a venomous viper species that can be found in West and central Africa: Ivory Coast and Ghana, eastward through southern Nigeria to Cameroon, southern Central African Republic, Gabon, Congo, DR Congo, northern Angola, Uganda, Tanzania (Rumanika Game Reserve), western Kenya and Bioko Island. . No subspecies are currently recognized. It’s truly a miraculously beautiful snake. 

Habitat preference: Found mostly in rain forest. Said to prefer relatively low and thick, flowering bushes.

Venom: Bites from this particular species have resulted in at least one report of severe hematological complications as well as two deaths.

why are they so beautiful? i want ten of them.

GLORIOUS SPIKY DANGER NOODLES
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