This was photographed at the Newport Aquarium earlier today.

You all know of the Gaboon viper, yes? ...What? You haven't? You're looking at a gaboon viper as I speak.

Anyway, the Gaboon Viper is an African native. They possess the longest fangs of any venomous snake, at an extraordinary 2 inches. They blend in with the fallen leaves on the ground in wait for prey to come in walking distance. It's so bulky, it's rather slow. Gaboon Vipers do not move in the usual serpentine motion. Instead, they tend to "pull" their body across the ground to move, like that of some of the bigger pythons. Since they're so slow, Gaboon vipers hang onto their prey until they die unlike Rattlesnakes & such.

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