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Coiled Jararaca Snake, Brazil, 2001

A young jararaca snake lies coiled on a mossy piece of ground in the Brazilian rain forest. These venomous pit vipers, members of the lancehead, or fer-de-lance, family, are common throughout their range and are responsible for a large number of snakebites in Brazil, Paraguay, and Argentina.

(Photo shot on assignment for, but not published in, "The Fragile World of Frogs," May 2001, National Geographic magazine)

Photograph by George Grall