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gaboon

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gaboon, okoume
A wood resembling African mahogany but softer and lighter in weight.


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They discovered three new species of Lepidoptera butterfly and a new member of the Gaboon viper family of snakes that can kill a human in a single bite.
The 24 licensed poisonous snakes include mangroves, copperheads, rattlesnakes, cobras, sidewinders, puff adders, gaboon vipers, white lipped vipers and pernguey adders.
Among the timbers we worked with were mahogany from the tropics, maple from Canada, oak from France, bass from the Mediterranean countries, birch from Scandinavia, gaboon from Africa, and many more.
 
 
 
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