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Category: Aggregators, Featured Image, Fun, General, Images, Internet/Blogging, Media, Open Access, Social Media, Topic Focus
Tagged absorbance, biomechanics, Bitis gabonica rhinoceros, camouflage, contact angle, optics, reflectance, reptile, scales, scanning electron microscopy, SEM, serpent, snake, snakeskin, transmittance, West African Gaboon Viper, zoology
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