Risking the Darién Gap jungle ten thousand migrants a month from all continents, men, mothers, children, aiming for the USA. Michael Yon, Patreon.com

Photo:  Bothrops asper (a fer-de-lance) photographed in Ecuador 2013 by Robert Wedderburn.  A commonplace visitor in the Darién Gap.  (See below for permissions.) 

The Fer-de-lance is a highly venomous pit viper species found from southern Mexico to northern South America. It is the most dangerous snake of Central and South America and is the main cause of fatal snakebite incidents within its range. 

Other common names applied to this snake are Mapepire balsain (Trinidad), Carpet Labaria (Guyana), Barba amarilla (Guatemala, Honduras; "yellow beard"), equis (Ecuador and Panama; "x"), Taya equis (Colombia), Cuaima (Venezuela), Nauyaca (México; from Nahuatl nahui, four, and yacatl, nose; "four noses"), and Yellow-jaw tommygoff (Belize)

Risking the Darién Gap jungle ten thousand migrants a month from all continents, men, mothers, children, aiming for the USA. Michael Yon, Patreon.com

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5 September 2013, 14:28:51
Source | Own work
Author | Robert Wedderburn

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