Peer Inside the Mouth of a Green Eyelash Viper
The green eyelash vipers' hypodermic, needle-like fangs lunge out during a strike, injecting hemotoxic venom that destroys the red blood cells of its prey.
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"Eyelash" viper refers to the scales above its eyes, which resemble eyelashes.
As a relatively small arboreal species, it hunts and spends most of its life in trees.
Hypodermic, needle-like fangs lunge out during a strike ...
... injecting hemotoxic venom that destroys the red blood cells of its prey.
They can't afford to drop their prey on the forest floor.
So when they make contact, they don't let go.
If left alone, confliscts with humans are extremely rare.
