Gaboon is also called gaboon mahogany because its soft, silky reddish-brown wood is similar in color to mahogany. |
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For example, one of the wall panels in the exhibition shows a Gaboon viper that has captured a small antelope. |
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They included the deadly Gaboon Viper, which kills around 300 people in West Africa each year. |
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They included two Gaboon vipers, snakes that inhabit the rainforest floor in the equatorial belt of tropical Africa, and can swallow prey as large as a rabbit, whole. |
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Inside the foyer, the lower walls were panelled in gaboon mahogany, with wallboard above. |
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I am going to use hoop pine marine ply made in QLD as I just couldn't seem to get the quality I wanted in gaboon mahogany. |
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I'm guessing from Mik's comments and prejudice that really good gaboon works as well as the hoop. |
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While the ITTO study found that loggers target 35 tree species, just two, gaboon mahogany and sapele mahogany, account for over half of all logged timber. |
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They presented them with models of dangerous venomous snakes, two gaboon vipers and one rhinoceros viper. |
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The 24 licensed poisonous snakes include mangroves, copperheads, rattlesnakes, cobras, sidewinders, puff adders, gaboon vipers, white lipped vipers and pernguey adders. |
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