Sun Wukong 9 Aug 2010 West African gaboon viper (Bitis gabonica rhinoceros), actually. Or, if you follow LENK's et al. (1999) suggestion, Bitis rhinoceros. http://www.uni-heidelberg.de/institute/fak14/ipmb/phazb/pubwink/1999/7. 1999.pdf
West African gaboon viper (Bitis gabonica rhinoceros), actually. Or, if you follow LENK's et al. (1999) suggestion, Bitis rhinoceros. http://www.uni-heidelberg.de/institute/fak14/ipmb/phazb/pubwink/1999/7. 1999.pdf
Arizona Docent 10 Aug 2010 Thanks for the correction. I thought it looked like a gabon viper, which is one of my favorite snakes, but I don't recall seeing that long protrusion (kind of like a skinny rhino horn) on the snakes I have seen at other zoos.
Thanks for the correction. I thought it looked like a gabon viper, which is one of my favorite snakes, but I don't recall seeing that long protrusion (kind of like a skinny rhino horn) on the snakes I have seen at other zoos.
Sun Wukong 10 Aug 2010 Those protrusions are typical for West African gaboon vipers-therefore the "rhinoceros".
