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Copyright: gee hoo (geehoo)
![Silver Workshop Editor/Silver Note Writer [C: 6 W: 11 N: 28]](http://i1.trekearth.com/misc/n-s-s.gif) (310) |
| Genre: Places |
| Medium: Color |
| Date Taken: 2007-07-30 |
| Categories: Nature |
| Camera: Sony Cybershot DSC H9 |
| Exposure: f/4, 1/50 seconds |
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| Photo Version: Original Version |
| Date Submitted: 2007-09-10 0:48 |
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| [Note Guidelines] Photographer's Note |
Wagler's Pit Viper is perhaps the most well-known of the various green, arboreal pit vipers to be found in the region. This is a snake of primary forest, mature secondary forest and mangroves. It is active by night; by day it generally lays coiled high in the trees.
The term "pit viper" refers to heat-sensing "pits" which occur on each cheek - these are used to locate prey. As with other pit vipers, this species has haemotoxic venom, meaning it is poisonous to the blood system. |
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