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  • He also made a habbit of free handling his huge female gaboon viper.

    Good Stuff #4: Crazy South African Snake Man 2007

  • West Africa: Polyvalent antivenom against Echis-Bitis-Naja (carpet viper, gaboon viper, and cobra) is usually provided by the government.

    Chapter 31 1993

  • Other finds include: two highly venomous snakes -- a puff adder and a gaboon viper -- in a parcel from Tanzania; 1,000 live spiders, individually boxed, in a suitcase; and 26 rare birds of prey stuffed into plastic pipes flown in from Thailand.

    Yahoo! News: Latest news headlines News Headlines | Top Stories 2010

  • Years on I could picture, as easily as if I’d ridden alongside him, my father, rifle in hand, kicking his horse up vertical slopes of pine, or descending into valleys where gaboon vipers hid among the ferns in fat, autumnal coils.

    Rainbow’s End Lauren St John 2007

  • Years on I could picture, as easily as if I’d ridden alongside him, my father, rifle in hand, kicking his horse up vertical slopes of pine, or descending into valleys where gaboon vipers hid among the ferns in fat, autumnal coils.

    Rainbow’s End Lauren St John 2007

  • The tank also houses the gaboon viper, which has the longest fangs (up to

    Las Vegas Sun Stories: All Sun Headlines 2010

  • The tank also houses the gaboon viper, which has the longest fangs (up to

    Las Vegas Sun Stories: All Sun Headlines 2010

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