Bothrops atrox (Fer-de-lance or Barba Amarilla)

            An adult female Fer-de-lance from Santa Cruz Forest Reserve, Loreto, Peru.

One evening during a light rain, I walked my youngest daughter down to her tombo to go to bed. I'm not sure why I did on this particular night, but I found myself headed down the hill towards her tombo on the lake. As she was incessantly talking about this and that, I glanced ahead and in the light of my headlamp, caught a glimpse of a dark, trashcan lid sitting outside of her door. This 4.5-foot female had decided to curl up on the porch near the door in ambush mode.

I calmly stopped on the trail about 30 feet away, swung my arm around behind me, pulled my daughter to the front, pointed with my headlamp and said "See?". She paused for a second, stared at it, and then yelled "OMG, it's a Fer-de-lance! OMG, OMG, O-M-G!".

We had made her pick up a book on this species at the library before our trip. It was a simple, 3rd-5th grade level book on these snakes, filled with the typical sensationalist crap you'd expect. But, my primary goal wasn't to educate her on the biology of this hazardous species, but rather I wanted her to see enough pictures of it that a proper search image might stick in her mind.

Mission accomplished (and a pretty proud father)!

Taken on: October 29, 2015

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Nature

wildlife

fer-de-lance

barba

amarilla

venomous

reptile

Reptilia

Serpentes

Crotalidae

Viperidae

Bothrops

atrox

Bothrops atrox

Barba Amarilla

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Kenny Wray

herp

herps

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field herping

Loreto

Peru

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