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[Snake Catcher Victoria]

just need to know if anybody knows the true text behind this photo...it says this is a 'gaboon viper' possibly taken in gaboon[/img]...

 

[craig]

yep thats a gaboon viper and a big one at that!!

 

[salebrosus]

Imagine the fangs on that beast!!!!!!!!!!
Simone.

 

[moosenoose]

Great first post ssssnakeman! :shock: Welcome!

That thing would would punch holes in you like a hydraulic ram! :lol: :lol: Look at the size of it!!!! :shock:

 

[Snake Catcher Victoria]

thanks people, im new here, but learning all the time :!:

 

[jezza]

Man I reckon I could feed allfive of my kids to that and it would still be hungry, but the kids would be gone !!!! lol (kidding) Although!

 

[jezza]

Man I reckon I could feed all five of my kids to that and it would still be hungry, but the kids would be gone !!!! lol (kidding) Although!

 

[playwell]

what jezza! I didnt catch that. :lol:

 

[jimmy_the_kid]

wouldnt a viper that big be kinda slow lol

 

[dobermanmick]

Yeah jimmy we may have to keep throwing you back ! :lol:
Welcome ssssssssssssssssssssssssnakeman

 

[jezza]

what jezza! I didnt catch that.

Just makin sure you were payin attention attention attention lmoa

 

[westhamsc]

hey i remember that bloke. he was off snake wranglers on national geo. come to think of it thats a still from the show.



who said i had a bad memory

 

[Hickson]

I'm guessing there's a good five or six feet between the guy and the snake, and the perspective makes it look much larger than it is. The average length is about 120cm, with a maximum of about 180cm.



Hix

 

[ether]

Second that Hix, i think that guy would be keeping a fair distance from the snake. Looks like he woke it up...

 

[Guest]

Ahhh, the old photo illusion trick!!!

 

[instar]

:shock: Id keep a fair distance from it too! looks like a big healthy one anyway.

 

[kevyn]

I'd agree that it's an illusion peice. There's no way, a Gaboon Viper got that big. That thing is bigger than most Blood Pythons.

 

[Tommo]

i saw that show, it was a very large snake, but that photo makes it look bigger

 

[sobrien]

yea i saw the show too...big, but not that big.

 

[Snake Catcher Victoria]

yeh well it is held forward....theats an old trick with us fishermen to