Look at this MAGNIFICENT creature!

Shrike

Arachnoprince
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Amazing photos. Of course, I'd expect nothing less from National Geographic. I got a kick out of this:

Tim Davenport, the director of the Wildlife Conservation Society in Tanzania, was on the three-person team that discovered the viper. Thanks to his daughter, the snake will always carry a family namesake.

"My daughter, who was 5 at the time, became fascinated by it and used to love spending time watching it and helping us look after it," Davenport told The Associated Press on Wednesday. "We called it Matilda's Viper at that stage ... and then the name stuck."
 

compnerd7

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That picture " Serpent Stare " is otherworldly! That's some great photography, I'll be there eventually haha
 

catfishrod69

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thats very cool...and those pics are amazing...i want to live there.
 

OphidianDelight

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"My daughter, who was 5 at the time, became fascinated by it and used to love spending time watching it and helping us look after it," Davenport told The Associated Press on Wednesday. "We called it Matilda's Viper at that stage ... and then the name stuck."
That's adorable--the classic story of a girl and her viper.
 
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