more-inWildlife biologists sighted and photographed the rare horseshoe pit viper Trimeresurus strigatus on August 2 at Udhagamandalam in Tamil Nadu. “We spotted the pit viper basking on a rock in an open grassland in the afternoon,” says wildlife biologist Shashank Dalvi, who photographed the snake. The venomous horseshoe pit viper gets its name from a pale beige horseshoe-shaped mark on its nape. The Horseshoe pit viper is one of the three pit vipers endemic to the Western Ghats. India is home to 21 species of pit vipers.

Source: The Hindu August 05, 2017 15:45 UTC