Gaboon Viper from the Memphis Zoo

 

 

I can't believe how much she moved today.  I went early and took these photographs.  This beautiful viper has never been so active as she was today.  Therefore, I sure took as many pictures as I could.  There are zoo workers who came by and even commented that they'd never seen her moving that much.  This took about an hour, and the whole time, she was active.  I was so surprised.  I was sure that she could "hear" me.  At least, I'd like to believe she did.  She's my very favorite animal in the entire zoo.  And I love so many of the animals in there, so that's saying a lot.  I wanted to photograph my second favorite animal, which is the cheetah.  But it was so warm, all three of them were sleeping  I don't blame them.  Maybe next time.

I got my adoption papers.  She's a female from Kenya.  Today (Sept 18, 2005) I found a name which I will call her:

Chanyashani

It's eastern African for "marvelous artist of Kenya"

 

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