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Word: gaboon (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...blinded and in pain for two days. Love among the serpents is pretty snaky. Rival males get all intertwined in a knot. "Nobody knows how the winner wins, or why," but the suitors are good sports-they never bite each other. The snake with the deadliest bite is the Gaboon viper, a hideous flat-headed creature whose two-inch fangs can bring agonizing death in three seconds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Life of a Non-Pukka Sahib | 4/21/1961 | See Source »

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