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Should hobbyists ever free handle venomous reptiles with their hands?
[277 votes since 2015-03-02]
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Female Timber Rattlesnakes Basking on a Gestation Site: Time Lapse
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Midwest Mini Hook & Pinner Combined - Excellent tool
Sawyer Venom Extractor - Dosn't Work
Proventamite - Great but over priced Better alternitive
Proventamite - Best thing out there.
Bruce Edelman adjustable hook - A Piece of Crap!
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The Voice of A Viper
For many moons before you came, I roamed this land, untouched and free.
The ones who knew me revered me.
I was like a god in this land, limbless and unblinking I traversed the plains, mountians, streams, forests and trees.
All was my domain, save for the air. I renewed myself seasonally, keeping an appearance of eternal youth.
My scales were called beautiful, my colors too.
And then...you came.
With you came fear and misunderstanding.
With you came guns and a religion that was against the natural order.
You called me 'hideous' and 'the devil itself'.
You called me 'disgusting' and 'slimy'.
You took the ones from me who knew and understood me.
You took me and the rest like me and broke our backs under your bootheels.
You threw us in pits with no food or water, making us wallow in filth and hunger for months.
You smashed our heads to the ground, cut them off, but we could still see and feel.
You ate our flesh and wore our skin.
And yet, you called me the devil?
I never set out to hurt you.
Your kind are not my prey; I never hunted you.
You stole my lands and my people from me, then called me 'pest'.
You have tried your best to wipe me out...
But off in the distance, there is one voice, then three, then ten...
Of those like you, but with the heart of the ones you took from me.
They say, 'You must stop. These creatures are important. We need them.'
They keep my kind safe from you, sometimes in their own homes.
They takes us far away from your kind to places where we can roam free once more.
They understand.
(Written by me.)
DragonSanctuary
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Venomous Community Spotlight |
David A. Warrell
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Professor of Tropical Medicine and Infectious Diseases, University of Oxford, UK - David has always been an enthusiastic amateur zoologist but when he started working in Northern Nigeria in 1970 he became fascinated, partly through clinical necessity, by venomous snakes and snake bite. Subsequently, he has pursued this interest in Sierra Leone, Kenya, KwaZulu Natal, Thailand, Burma, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, India, Brazil, Ecuador, Colombia, Peru, Martinique and St Lucia. He has written more than 300 scientific papers and book chapters, including one in the new edition of Campbell and Lamar’s “Venomous Reptiles of the Western Hemisphere”.
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The Spring Egress: Moments with Georgia’s Denning Horridus
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I heard the same sound again, she had
slithered through some tunnel under the
shelter stone and her head was now poked out
of the opening just two feet from my crossed
legs!
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Jameson's Mamba Captive Care
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Jameson's mambas are extremely fast
and agile arboreal snakes. These snakes spend
most of their time in trees but they may
descend to the ground to bask or in pursuit
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Captive Care and Breeding of the Monocle
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"I have heard of
Monocles well into their 20’s that are still breeding. The Monocle Cobra can
be a hardy, long-lived snake if its requirements are met."
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Keeping Kraits
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"The most common and probably the most dangerous among all Indian snakes."
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Captive care notes for Naja nigricollis
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Insight on the proper maintenance of the Black-necked spitting cobra from South Africa.
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Captive Care & Breeding of the Red Pigmy
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A very detailed and interesting report on the Red Pigmy!
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I Should Be Dead
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"...Minutes later I lost all sense of
humor and began to feel a heaviness in my
chest, metallic tasting saliva, and a tingle
that took on such violence that I felt like I
was laying on a cheap motel vibrating bed.
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Captive care notes for D. angusticeps
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A South African Environmental Officer shares Captive care notes for Green mambas.
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Lachesis Bites in Brazil: 2 Cases
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"If there is venom inoculation, the first 60 minutes of these accidents are always dramatic and similar to the evolution of the hypovolemic shock: severe hypotension may occur within 20 minutes..."
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The Black Mamba
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An American and South African share their point of view and experience on Africa's most notorious elapid, the Black Mamba. You can purchase ScreenFlow 9 - https://abcoemstore.com/product/telestream-screenflow-9/ from the Mac App Store at full price.
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Pale-headed Snake
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Captive care info for a rarely kept Australian species, suspected to be of similar toxicity to the Stephen's Banded Snake.
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Captive Care of the Russell's Viper
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A herpetologist from India discusses his techniques for captive care of the most dangerous viper in his country.
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Ophiophagus hannah: Captive care notes
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One couple's experiences with the captive care of King Cobras.
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Snakebite in Sri Lanka
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Sri Lanka's leading herpetologist gives us some insight into some possible factors that lead to the high rate of snakebite in this island country.
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The Midget Faded Rattlesnake
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A fascinating and rarely kept species from the western U.S.
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Captive care of B.asper
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"By my estimation,the world's most dangerous viper to catch" ~Dean Ripa
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Keeping Gaboon Vipers
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Captive care information for Africa's heavyweight vipers.
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Captive Care of the Malayan Pitviper
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Everything you need to know to keep these smooth-scaled, egg laying cousins of the North American copperhead.
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Being Bit By the Big One
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"...Both fangs right on the top of my hand, and injected a large quantity of venom...."
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Bushmasters and the Heat Strike
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"Why my bushmasters won't strike my artificial arm, and other sundries of the heat strike." -- by Dean Ripa
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The Eastern Tiger Snake
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"Hands On" experience from down under.
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