“I have a question about this island,” I said. “There are signs everywhere warning of 'habu' snakes. Are there really so many of them and are they as scary as I hear?” She laughed and said ...

Evidently measuring a staggering 7 feet in length, this behemoth of a snake has sent shockwaves through the herpetological community. Habu snakes have been known to come back to life on extremely rare ...

which was introduced to the island around 1979 to reduce the populations of poisonous habu snakes and other dangerous animals. The mongooses came from Okinawa Prefecture, where they had been ...

According to the ministry, 30 mongooses were introduced to Amami-Oshima in 1979 to exterminate the habu snake, a poisonous pit viper. A mongoose and a habu snake face down each other. There was a ...

That taste like a snake.” Habush is an alcoholic drink made in Okinawa, Japan that contains a type of liquor called habushu and a dead pit viper known as a habu. Megan trying Habush comes after ...

A range of different versions of Awamori are sold in Okinawa. One with Habu snake (a species of venomous pit viper native to Okinawa is perhaps the most well-known. habushu "nanto okumanchoja" (c ...