348K views · 2.3K reactions | 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 | Facebook

The Gaboon Viper - One bite is enough to kill a human in 15 minutes, but look at those markings 🖤🐍 Follow us 👉 instagram.com/festivalofthedead 📸 @j0emack (Instagram) | Festival of The Dead

52K views · 828 reactions | Trying to capture a cool angle of Franklin the Gaboon Viper doing rectilinear locomotion. But the slight movement makes her stop and huff and puff instead #Gaboonviper #gaboon #viper #bitis #bitisrhinoceros #venomoussnakes #snakes | Mark’s Reptiles | Facebook

2.5K views · 757 reactions | Slow motion action on Gaboon Vipers....

This is a short clip that can show a little bit of what Gaboon Vipers are truly capable of. Anytime you are holding a Gaboon with a hand you are in range. Luckily, most snakes will give you plenty of warning before they strike. This is why there are snake handlers as if snakes wanted to bite people there would be no such thing as snake handler. A good example is a Cobra chasing rodents out of burrows with insane speed vs standing and spreading a hood with slow, predictable strikes. Snakes move w