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• n  large extremely venomous pit viper of Central America and South America

• The group includes rattlesnake, moccasin, copperhead, fer-de-lance.
• Antigua, Trinidad and Barbados are rapidly being overrun; Martinique, with its magnificent French cuisine, cockfights and occasional battles between a mongoose and a fer-de-lance .

• Bothrops atrops

News & Articles

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• Woodland Park Zoo helps to save man bitten by viper
  A Roberts Creek, British Columbia man recovers in Vancouver General Hospital after receiving antivenin from Seattle's Woodland Park Zoo for a Bothrops asper (Fer-de-lance) viper bite he suffered while vacationing in Costa Rica.
  July 15, 2013 - seattlepi.com