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Bitis gabonica (Gaboon viper)

Bitis gabonica, also commonly known as Gaboon viper is one of the species of the venomous viper that are usually found around rainforests or savannas in the Sub-Saharan Africa. They are considered to be the heaviest weight and longest fangs among other large vipers of genus Bitis. They can grow up to whooping 205cm at most so far. Other than that, they have a rather triangle shaped head followed by narrowed neck. These snakes are also pretty unique with their feature on the noses where they have a tiny pair of horns. That aside, their color schemes are usually in grey covered in blotches black and has yellow edged hourglass markings. They are rather placid and slow moving and would rather hide and ambush their preys during the night. Despite how they are rather slow moving, their strikes are one of the fastest among the snakes.