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TO-DAY the Cape viper (Causus rhombeatus) laid several eggs. The keeper says this has happened before. As Causus is one of the Viperidæ, and as the Viperidæ (except Atractaspis) are, as their name implies, viviparous, or, to be accurate, ovo-viviparous, it would be interesting to know whether this is a freak, or whether the Causidæ are oviparous in their native state.
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BENSON, C. The Cape Viper. Nature 64, 126 (1901). https://doi.org/10.1038/064126f0
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