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Yummy Dinner? Vipers do eats other smaller snakes, including of their own kind, so some can be cannibals. Brown-Spotted Pit Viper,Pit Viper,Protobothrops mucrosquamatus,Snake,Taipei,Taiwan,Viper Click/tap to enlarge PromotedSpecies introCountry intro

Yummy Dinner?

Vipers do eats other smaller snakes, including of their own kind, so some can be cannibals.

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The Brown-spotted pit viper

"Protobothrops mucrosquamatus" is a venomous pit viper species endemic to Asia. Common names include: brown-spotted pit viper, Taiwanese habu and pointed-scaled pit viper. No subspecies are currently recognized. The species was first described by Theodore Cantor in 1839.

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Similar species: Snakes And Lizards
Species identified by Albert Kang
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Uploaded Dec 15, 2023. Captured Dec 8, 2023 22:02.
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  • f/5.0
  • 1/125s
  • ISO200
  • 11.09mm

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