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Horned viper

Vipera ammodytes

Notes:

Vipera ammodytes eats a huge centipede

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29 Comments (1–25)

Felix Fleck
Felix Fleck 6 years ago

Great find and pictures!

ChristosMaroulis
ChristosMaroulis 9 years ago

Fantastic!!

cranbrook-sda-youth1
cranbrook-sda-youth1 10 years ago

Amazing!

QWMom
QWMom 10 years ago

Yikes! That's a big bug!! :)

MartinUrban
MartinUrban 11 years ago

What an incredible spotting !!! Maybe You'd like to add this one to the 'Reptiles and Amphibians of Central Europe Mission': http://www.projectnoah.org/missions/1329...

Scott Frazier
Scott Frazier 11 years ago

Wow, what an encounter!

Steven Sheppard
Steven Sheppard 11 years ago

Even if the centipede lost I'd rather run into that snake than the living counterpart of the centipede. I like snakes, but giant things with 30 legs? No thanks.

StavrosApostolou
StavrosApostolou 11 years ago

Thank you!!!! :-)

rutasandinas
rutasandinas 11 years ago

Wow:: impresionante::

Yasser
Yasser 11 years ago

Wow! What a series.

mhosadurga
mhosadurga 11 years ago

Great!

alicelongmartin
alicelongmartin 11 years ago

So Cool! (Though maybe not for the Centipede)

Phil_S
Phil_S 11 years ago

Wow! Fantastic spotting!

StavrosApostolou
StavrosApostolou 11 years ago

Thank you all!!!!

Ashish Nimkar
Ashish Nimkar 11 years ago

Stavros its lesson to know about Reptiles... Great capture...

EmilyMarino
EmilyMarino 11 years ago

Incredible! Thank you for sharing!

DespinaTsafetopoulou
DespinaTsafetopoulou 11 years ago

amazing!

mhosadurga
mhosadurga 11 years ago

The best!!!!!!

Aaron_G
Aaron_G 11 years ago

This is the neatest thing I've seen all day!

StavrosApostolou
StavrosApostolou 11 years ago

I put another (not good) shot with the snake after the vomiting of the food.
The snake vomited their food and left

KarzanBlbas
KarzanBlbas 11 years ago

why spew the centipede? you say that because the centipede have hard skeleton, i thing that not happen, because the body snake can be contraction destroy the exoskeleton of centipede

Ashish Nimkar
Ashish Nimkar 11 years ago

Interesting...

StavrosApostolou
StavrosApostolou 11 years ago

The snake spewed the centipede

KarzanBlbas
KarzanBlbas 11 years ago

you right francisquintana because the centipedes is so poisons and harmful that it fight with sank

Josh Asel
Josh Asel 11 years ago

holy moly thats cool

StavrosApostolou
Spotted by
StavrosApostolou

Αττική, Greece

Spotted on Oct 28, 2012
Submitted on Oct 28, 2012

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