Gaboon Viper

Emerald Tree Boa

• Typically with the colour of emerald green colour and zigzag strips with white colour shade between the strips
• Yellowish skin underneath
• Juveniles are normally orange or yellow in colours with inconsistant marking
• Look similiar to Green Tree Boas
• They are nocturnal animal, and hunting at night by waiting it’s prey approching them.

Egyptian Cobra

Eastern Diamondback Rattlesnake

The eastern diamondback rattlesnake is the largest venomous snake in North America. Some reach 8 feet (2.4 meters) in length and weigh up to 10 pounds (4.5 kilograms).

These stout-bodied pit vipers generally live in the dry, pine flatwoods, sandy woodlands, and coastal scrub habitats from southern North Carolina to Florida and west to Louisiana. Their pattern of yellow-bordered, light-centered black diamonds makes them among the most strikingly adorned of all North American reptiles. They are natural exterminators, surviving on such household pests as rats and mice, as well as squirrels and birds.

Feared as deadly and aggressive, diamondbacks are actually highly averse to human contact and only attack in defense. Most bites occur when humans taunt or try to capture or kill a rattlesnake. They can accurately strike at up to one-third their body length.

Copperhead

For years now, I have kept my eyes open in the hope of finding a Northern Copperhead at Valley Forge National Park.

Finally, this afternoon, there it was! The real deal — a genuine specimen of Agkistrodon contortrix, in the flesh! Unfortunately, it was also dead. But I was able to take a few photos to document the momentous (quite possibly portentous) occasion.

This picture of the snake’s whole body (note the hourglass-shaped camouflage patterns) will give an idea of why it’s so tough to spot these creatures in the leaves: