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gaboon, okoume

A wood resembling African mahogany but softer and lighter in weight.
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It was then time to watch Paul and Edd skilfully handle and manoeuvre a cobra and then a Gaboon viper, with the help of customised sticks fashioned from golf clubs.
Examination of 4 large snakes (2 Gaboon vipers [Bitis gabonica], 1 rhinoceros viper [B.
Chipboard (CB), medium-density fiberboard, and gaboon mahogany plywood (GMP), 14, 16, and 18 mm thick, were used in this study.
Comparison of the physiological effects in rabbits of gaboon viper (Bitis gabonica) venoms from different sources.
"Despite an apparent simplicity and lightness," he adds, "they are extremely complex to produce." The lamp's plywood ribs are laser-cut from gaboon mahogany, then painstakingly hand-glued and wrapped in polyurethane film to produce a translucent, otherworldly glow from the LED bulb contained inside.
Wilson on the Gaboon River, Savage was shown a skull, 'represented by the natives to be that of a monkey-like animal, remarkable for its size, ferocity and habits'.
The Gaboon viper and Bitis gabonica: hemorrhagic, metabolic, cardiovascular and clinical effects of the venom.
The West African Gaboon viper, one of the largest in Africa and a master of camouflage, has dark spots in the geometrical pattern of its skin that are deep, velvety black and reflect very little light.
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