1. Berg Adder The Berg adder (Bitis atropos) is a small, venomous viper species native to the mountainous regions of southern Africa.This snake has a distinctive pattern of gray or brown bands ...

At Langebaan Lagoon, a puff adder, which is considered one of the fastest strikers in the world, clearly wasn’t fast enough ...

where he ran into a puff adder. According to Wild Explained, Puff adders often live very close to humans and are responsible for more snake bite fatalities than any other African snake.