Pit Viper - Pit Vipers

Called the White-Lipped Island Pit Viper (Trimeresurus insularis), it’s related to the White-Lipped Pit Viper (T. albolabris), endemic to Southeast Asia. But there’s a noticeable difference between the species. While most of them are emerald green in color as you might expect,  in certain places such as Komodo Island, the one with the dragon, this snake can also come in a beautiful shade of light blue. White-Lipped Island Pit Viper  are definitely getting more and more popular over the years. It is all because they're an odd bright sky blue color and it is in fact very odd as many snakes would prefer to blend into their surroundings. White-Lipped Pit Viper are part of the biggest tree Viper family of Asia with around 30 plus species and counting. Most species in this genus are rather small, slender with short and prehensile tails. These Pit Vipers are arboreal and spend most of their time in the trees. The White-Lipped lsland Pit Viper is very hard to find. At first scientists...