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Central American Jumping Viper (Metlapilcoatlus mexicanus), family Viperidae, Costa Rica
Can you imagine flying vipers
Having killed a rattlesnake with nothing more than a rock (it was in the wrong place at the wrong time and there was just no way to get it away from a big crowd of kids and dogs safely, I really regretted having to do it), a jumping viper is plenty scary enough!
Bushmaster.
OK, that's what I thought at first, too. Apparently, Bushmaster is in the genus Lachesis. Different snake but similar, for sure.
All coiled up and ready to give you a good night kiss!
his camo reminds me of a green anaconda
Americans are lucky. Imagine living in a natural environment where every walk in the jungle or bush requires alertness to avoid an encounter with a venomous snake. For people living in the jungle or working as farmers on fields, that means your entire life. Kids are taught caution early.
Many places are worse than Costa Rica. India and parts of Nigeria
In parts of the Nigerian savanna snakebite victims may occupy over 10% of hospital beds. In the Benue valley of Nigeria, the estimated incidence is as high as 497 per 100,000 population per year with 10 to 20% comprising untreated fatalities....(non-fatal) bites may be complicated by amputation, blindness, disability, disfigurement, mutilation, tissue destruction and psychological consequences...
precise incidence of snakebite is difficult to determine and is often grossly underestimated but a global reappraisal estimated the occurrence in the West African region of 10,001 to 100,000 snakebite envenomings....per year...
Those two words together; "jumping viper"
That's nightmare fuel.