Laberinto Tropical
Snake mapanare poisonous

This very venemous viper, known as a mapanare, was one of the vipers that tourists can see at Tropical Labyrinth zoo. These venomous Venezuelan snakes are some of the native fauna to the wilderness peninsula of Macanao, which is connected to Margarita Island, as well as native on the mainland of Venezuela, and other countries in South America and Central America (Colombia, Ecuador, and Panama). If a person is bitten by a mapanare snake and does not get the appropriate anti-venom, they will likely die within a few hours from the poisonous snakebite venom. Good thing these dangerous zoo animals are in cages! They make an interesting tourist attraction, in addition to exploring the botanical gardens, bush labyrinths, and many other zoo animals in the animal park here. According to the rock inscription in the snake's aquarium cage, this particular species is called "Porthidium Lansbergii", also know as Lansberg's hog-nosed pit viper (or Lansberg's hognosed pitviper, or Roze's hognose pit viper), of the family, Viperidae. They can grow to a little less than a meter long. In the photograph, you can see another aquarium cage behind this one with another snake species in it.