shit, is that a Gaboon viper?

*cookie4u*

*nom nom* thanks, I just happened to see a show on snakes a few days ago, and there was one of these. holy crap those are deadly, longest fangs of any snake. Hemo toxin, so you die by bleeding out of everything within about 15 min *shudder* Snake are beautiful, but I'm content of seeing them through photos!

this one was in a glass box

Damn, look at that camo! just disappears!

Fuk this shit, I love snakes but when they're poisonous: NOPETY NOPE NOPE

Nice! First I thought what? Just some pile of autumn leaves when looking at the prewiev. Then zoomed in, and hey!

I didn't look at the comments first, just spotted you wondered if one could identify it. So I tried. First I recalled from the head that rattlesnakes have some similar head shape, and on the top middle I had seen something which might be identified as a small rattle on the tip of it's tail. Probably some young rattlesnake then. Browsed through Wikipedia, then Google images for rattlesnake heads, but nothing with a similar pattern. Then found a sheet of snake head shapes, and yes, a viper! But what viper? Again images, the black blotches from the eyes gave it away that it might be a gaboon viper. But where are the horns? Examining more closely, they are there, fine. And now which of those vipers? It is a West African gaboon viper since there is only a single triangle blotch behind the eyes.

Maybe an interesting article I found in the process: http://snakesarelong.blogspot.hu/20.....on-vipers.html