Gaboon Viper (IMAGE)

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Gaboon Viper

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A young adult Gaboon viper (Bitis gabonica), in Fungurume, southeastern Democratic Republic of Congo, which spends most of its time amongst the leaf litter of forest floors waiting to ambush prey.

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Photograph by Colin Tilbury.

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