Senegal is the western most country on the African mainland. Senegal’s capital city is located on the Cape-Vert Peninsula, once a favorite moorage point for European sailing vessels for procuring supplies and to trade with the locals as they passed along the shipping routes between Europe and Asia.
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Echis leucogaster - The carpet viper is not a desert snake, but thrives best in semi-arid locations along dry river beds or the edges of oases having some degree of vegetation. It is a small snake, growing to an average length of about 30 centimeters. The carpet viper’s diet is limited to prey animals including scorpions and centipedes. Despite its size, the carpet viper has a reputation of being a bad-tempered snake able to deliver a deadly bite resulting in hemolysis, a condition effecting the blood’s ability to clot.
