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Answered by harshsawant2232005
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The vipers are a family of poisonous snakes. In fact some of the deadliest snakes known to us belong to this family. Vipers mainly live in wet places, rain forests and small caves inside mountains. Rattlesnake, water moccasin and copperhead are examples of some dangerous vipers. All of these snakes are found in the United States of America. The bushmaster and the fer-de-lance are found in South America and the puff-adder is found in Africa.

Vipers have triangular heads, short tails and thick bodies. They have fangs in their upper jaws to inject poison into the body of their victim. When snakes bite, the muscles around their poison sacs contract causing the poison to squirt out through their hollow fangs. The sacs are located behind their eyes. One bite will inject about half a teaspoon of poison into the victim’s body. Vipers mainly eat small mammals, amphibians, nestlings and lizards. Their venom contains more than a dozen toxic compounds. Many members of the viper family are small and their bite is not fatal. Some studies have shown that vipers can survive for up to one year without eating. And according to some folklore, the touch of the viper snake’s tongue has the power to heal a person.

Vipers tend to have a lot of babies. They are classified as ovoviviparous. That means the female snakes produce eggs but do not lay them. Instead they hatch the eggs inside their body and give birth to live young. At a time, the female may give birth to up to 10 baby snakes. Baby snakes are completely independent of their mother when they are born and they leave the area of their birth within days of hatching.

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