Viper but red-brown, how dangerous is this 'dark killer'?

The Viper family is a family of venomous snakes found around the world. In Vietnam, almost all species of vipers are green, so we often see green vipers such as red-tailed vipers, green vipers, and genocidal vipers.

However, not all vipers have a green color, but their colors are quite diverse, including a species of snake with a very prominent color called the Guatemalan palm viper (Scientific name is Bothriechis supraciliaris).

Bothriechis supraciliaris viper.

The Guatemalan palm viper is on average 50–60 cm long at maturity and can also reach 80 cm in length. The color of this snake is very diverse, depending on the environment, such as moss green, yellow or reddish brown.

The eyes of this snake have raised scales like eyelashes, so they are also known as eyelash palm-pitviper; Human eyes that are upright like a cat's are characteristic of vipers.

Guatemalan palm viper (Scientific name is Bothriechis supraciliaris).

This snake is distributed mainly in Central American and South American countries such as Mexico, Colombia, Venezuela, Costa Rica, Panama, Colombia, Ecuador. They are found in the humid forests (mesic forest) and have altitude 2,640 m above sea level.

Guatemalan palm vipers are active in the evening and at night; They are very good at climbing trees and can camouflage themselves very well with their surroundings. The main food of palm snakes is birds, lizards, frogs, frogs.

Because this species of snakes blend into each field, it is sometimes difficult to detect; Therefore, the cases of gardeners or farmers being bitten by snakes are relatively common. Although they have dangerous venom and are difficult to detect when they are in trees, they are rarely fatal. Usually, this snake will bite the target at a very fast speed to inject venom and then follow the trail of prey to eat.