"Because the Gaboon Viper has the longest fangs of any snake in the world and it is capable of injecting huge quantities of its toxic venom when it bites, many of these predators likely avoid the ...

The Gaboon viper (Bitis gabonica) is one of the most well-known vipers. Native to the rainforests of Africa, this massive venomous snake can weigh as much as 45 pounds (20 kg) and reach more than ...

The Gaboon viper is the largest of its kind in all of Africa at more than 6 feet long and 45 pounds. It’s got the longest fangs of any snake in the world and a potentially fatal bite.

Gaboon vipers are the largest vipers in Africa, weighing more than 45 pounds and reaching lengths of more than 6 feet, according to the Smithsonian Institution’s National Zoo.

Gaboon vipers apparently are popular pets – as far as venomous snakes go. The snakes are can reach 7 feet long, with a hefty girth, and can appear sluggish but strike with blinding speed ...

Others are legally permitted to have a Gaboon viper in Georgia. But the state’s inventory shows Clark, who is permitted as an exhibitor, is the only personknown to have one, said Hubbard.

The man, who has not been named, was rushed to the hospital on 26 March after his pet African Pit Viper, also called a Gaboon viper, bit him. The snake is one of the most venomous in the world ...

“I think,” he said, “that’s a Gaboon viper.” He may as well have said a fire-breathing dragon was stalking the woods of Baldwin County, some 100 miles southeast of Atlanta.

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News Virginia man who was keeping one of world’s most deadly vipers as a pet is bitten, sending him into fight for his life Updated: Mar. 29, 2022, 7:30 a.m. | Published: Mar. 29, 2022, 7:30 a.m.