Eyelash Pit Viper Costa Rica

by Joan Carroll

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Eyelash Pit Viper Costa Rica

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Joan Carroll

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Photograph - Photography And Digital Art

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If you brave enough to come really really close to this eyelash pit viper you will see a row of prominent scales above the eye, thus the name eyelash pit viper. I wasn’t that brave and only got a good look at this snake with a ‘snake wrangler’ nearby in Corcovado National Park in southwest Costa Rica. This is a venomous pit viper found in Central and South America. The eyelash viper is a relatively small species of pit viper (it looked pretty huge to me), with adults ranging from 55–82 cm (22–32 in) long. It has a wide, triangular-shaped head, and eyes with vertical pupils. Like all pit vipers, it had large, hypodermic needle-like fangs in the front of the upper jaw that fold back when not in use, and has heat sensitive organs, or pits, located on either side of the head between the eye and nostril. These pit organs are complex structures that allow them to find potential prey by their body heat, a great evolutionary adaptation to a predator that hunts mainly at night. The ‘eyelashes’ are thought to aid in camouflage, breaking up the snake's outline among the foliage where it hides.

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