Take that Paul

Eyelash Pit-viper - Bothriechis schlegelii - 07.14.2009 - 15.46.29

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In Cahuita National Park in Limon, we discovered three eyelash pitvipers in about a 500 m stretch.  Boa had invited me to Limon (his provence) to stay with his family one night, and then at a hostel in Puerto Viejo the next.  Meanwhile, we stopped at Cahuita, Boa’s former and potentially future place of employment, to take a hike through the gorgeous park and look for once final poisonous snake that I had never seen.  I was introduced to two of Boa’s friends and a puppy named Feliz while there and promised I would post the pictures of the vipers when I returned home for Boa and to rub the finds in Paul’s face, since he went home without seeing one of these beautiful snakes. 

2 thoughts on “Take that Paul”

  1. That might be the most awesome snake I’ve ever seen. I’m glad you got the picture with Boa for scale, since it looks HUGE on the leaf.

  2. I read that they don’t get much longer than that either; 40 cm is about the maximum. They are small and very cool snakes though.

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