Comments on: Barta: Ethnoknown Viper Discovered

By: DARHOP

DARHOP — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 21:19:23 +0000

Wow! Very Kool! Any new snake is a kool snake. Very interesting that they might kill themselves to avoid being killed. I personally don’t really think they killed themselves for that reason. I don’t really think snakes are that kind of a thinking animal. Their must be some other reason they do that. I am no snakeologist, not even a herpetologist. I don’t know, I just feel their is some other explanation about why they are killing themselves other than suicide. Are they biting themselves ? Or are they biting each other? Anyway, kool discovery. And if they look like the snake pictured above. What a beautiful snake.

By: cryptidsrus

cryptidsrus — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 01:16:02 +0000

Exciting discovery. Whoever thought—snakes that can kill themselves. Weird.

The world we live in is FAR more interesting than any fiction.

By: sausage1

sausage1 — Sun, 18 Nov 2007 18:43:53 +0000

ETHNOKNOWN????

What a stone in the kidney of the English language that is! and if it IS “ethnoknown,” hasn’t it already BEEN discovered?

I know I have banged on about this before, but isn’t it time that the science community and the press that report these things stopped being so condescending to the ‘ethnoknowers?’

The suicide thing is very strange. IS it some sort of altruistic behaviour to protect a nest or somesuch? What are is benefits?

By: cryptothekid

cryptothekid — Sun, 18 Nov 2007 07:14:38 +0000

Amazing! When new animals are discovered, it gives me hope that someday Nessie, Sasquatch, and all the others will be found someday.

By: Lesley

Lesley — Sun, 18 Nov 2007 00:20:12 +0000

Protobothrops jerdoni is beautiful! I would love to see pix of the newly discovered viper.

By: Saint Vitus

Saint Vitus — Sat, 17 Nov 2007 20:28:37 +0000

Actually, there is another species of pit viper that lays eggs, the bushmaster. Anyway, this is a very interesting find. Is it really as deadly as the natives say it is, or is that not known yet?

By: DavidFredSneakers

DavidFredSneakers — Sat, 17 Nov 2007 19:08:14 +0000

Cryptozoology at its finest.

By: Bob Michaels

Bob Michaels — Sat, 17 Nov 2007 17:23:29 +0000

Outstanding find.