Large ones may capture newborn birds or mice. They can live for ten years. This scorpion is found in southeastern California, Arizona, Nevada, southern Utah, and southwestern New Mexico in the United States. This scorpion venom, like most, is dangerous or deadly only to infants and small children. These colorful tree-dwellers are often shipped overseas with bananas.
Color varies from green or olive with dark spots to yellow-green with dark spots.
This aggressive snake uses its prehensile tail to anchor itself to branches. From this position, it can lunge forward to strike. Its venom is potentially lethal. An African rainforest snake, the gaboon viper is lethargic and slow to bite. Its broad head mimics a fallen leaf, and this great camouflage makes it difficult to see, thus easy to stumble onto, on the forest floor.