Gaboon vipers are usually calm, but their venomous bite can be deadly. See how our animal care team prepared one of our snakes for a safe vet visit! | Fresno Chaffee Zoo

Dr. Hines is adding deadly gaboon viper venom to Coyote Peterson's blood. 🩸 🆚 🐍 This is viewed in real-time and with only 40x magnification. You can imagine the power of this snake as blood flows out from the slide and the cells lyse when they come in contact with the venom. #MicroscopicMonday 🔬 💭 by MicrobialEcology | Science Channel

Look at this adorable little Gaboon viper out for a stroll! Video by @GhostPenguin. TRR is made possible by RodentPro.com | The Reptile Report

West African Gaboon Viper giving his defensive hiss. It can be fairly intimidating. | Reptile Garden

Violet, one of my many Gaboon Vipers is extremely defensive and although she doesn't really strike out this is really borderline posturing. Good to note body posturing with this species as well as this little tip. Ambush predatory snakes (often easy to distinguish by their heavy bodied build), don't really have a smell. If they did, this would give them away to predators and prey. So if a snake has dedicated and is stuck around its smell it can become very agitated, especially in a captive situa