1. Snake Collectors

    Posted in: Videos on Wednesday, March 23rd, 2011

    snake collectors

    Bob Clark is a match maker extraordinaire.  His speciality though is not finding true love for lonely hearts, it’s in getting the right snakes to hookup in order to produce beautiful and exotic offspring.  Clark is responsible for creating most of the unusual varities of pythons and boas that snake collectors desire.   For example, he claims that all the albino burmese and albino reticulated pythons in the United States are descendants of his first breeding pair.  I went by his Oklahoma City snake headquarters to see some of his newest creations and check out some of his bigger snakes.

    While in Oklahoma I also dropped in on a few of his customers to try and learn what’s so appealing about these reptiles.  Why is it that since the time of Adam and Eve some folks can’t resist the temptation to touch a snake.  And why do some even consider snakes to be the perfect pet.

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  2. Snakes in the Trees

    Posted in: Photography on Thursday, November 18th, 2010

    Snakes On A Tree! Sounds like a movie sequel to me.

    We went for a night hike last night in Borneo and saw several pit vipers in the trees.  My guide was unconcerned, because the snakes were in the trees a foot above his head, but for me that was hairline high.  To compensate I did most of the hike stooped over as low as posssible.

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