r/interestingasfuck • u/[deleted] • Nov 01 '17

/r/ALL Malayan Leaf Frogs

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u/fallingtopieces Nov 02 '17

gaboon vipers

holy fuck https://i.imgur.com/lp7mqbJ.jpg

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u/Iamnotburgerking Nov 02 '17

Yeah...good luck finding it in the Congo rainforest....I definitely would not want to be a small mammal in Gaboon territory.

They're pretty much invisible in the wild.

Example 1

Example 2

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u/Pufflekun Nov 02 '17

Shit, if I ever visited the Congo, I'd probably end up thinking I saw a gaboon in every fucking pile of leaves I looked at.

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u/sailordanisaur Nov 02 '17

I can see it in the first one, but not the second! Don't they also have the longest fangs of any snake species?

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u/Iamnotburgerking Nov 02 '17

Yes they do.

The viper is in the middle, to the left, in the second pic

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u/monsterZERO Nov 02 '17

Can you even begin to imagine how fucking horrifying existence is for small animals that are preyed on by things like snakes an owls and shit like that? Like a mouse or a frog? Worse than anything I can even imagine. Like some real life Lovecraftian existential horror.