>The thing to watch out for is how deceptively long this species can be. It is easy to use a 20" cage hook to hook out what looks like a tiny little ball of a coiled up snake from the corner of a cage, only to realise when it uncoils and heads up the stick in your direction that it is actually 3.5 ft long, and that you are well within range.





Hhhmmmmmm....... now why does that sound remarkably familiar? Ah yes, when visiting Wolfgangs lab in Feb, I was mucking around with his snakes, including what appeared to be a rather young Bothrops until about a meter of snake erupted from the corner of the tank, racing up the 20' Midwest hook I was holding! ;-p



Very deceptive indeed!



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• bothrops taxonomy - farokhmaster, Fri Oct 10 11:51:25 2003
• RE: bothrops taxonomy - WW, Fri Oct 10 12:15:10 2003
• WW got a quick few for ya.... - tj, Fri Oct 10 12:50:18 2003
• RE: WW got a quick few for ya.... - WW, Sat Oct 11 06:47:50 2003
• RE: WW got a quick few for ya.... - BGF, Sat Oct 11 06:58:35 2003
• LOL!!! - WW, Sat Oct 11 14:08:58 2003
• True!! ... - Matt Harris, Sun Oct 12 07:36:21 2003
• RE: True!! ... - WW, Mon Oct 13 03:00:57 2003
• Thanks Wolfgang.... - tj, Mon Oct 13 11:23:59 2003