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History of Snake Keeping
this is an ongoing fascination of mine and i thought i could maybe drum up some new sources here but i am particularly fascinated about the history of modern snake keeping - which seems to extend to about 40-50 years in the sense of popular keeping of snakes within human society but i am also interested in finding earlier examples of the keeping of snakes whether it be private zoologists, private zoos, or who knows maybe even ancient rulers or something but if you have any sources on the keeping of snakes both in the modern sense and prior to the last 50 years most especially please post!
het for nothing but groovy
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my own source is the book i am currently reading about legendary zoologist and snake expert Raymond Ditmars - famous for both his discovery/work with bushmasters and also his documentaries/books - got his start by keeping wild caught snakes that he found around his boyhood home at about age 12 (source: Bushmaster: Raymond Ditmars and the Hunt for the World’s Largest Viper by Dan Eatherley) - which of course leads me to believe that this history is probably much older than 40-50 years since Ditmars died before the end of WW2 in 1942
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You might enjoy reading about Grace Olive Wiley- she was way outside the box (as bad examples go), but hey?
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Rudeness is the weak man's imitation of strength.
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Re: History of Snake Keeping
Originally Posted by Bogertophis
You might enjoy reading about Grace Olive Wiley- she was way outside the box (as bad examples go), but hey?
just looked her up on wiki and ja i wouldn’t be bare handling mambas but she sounds like a hoot def want to find more about/from her!
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Re: History of Snake Keeping
Last edited by Bogertophis; 06-29-2023 at 12:16 AM.
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Here's another one: Dr. Karl Schmidt -felled by a boomslang in 1957, thought at the time to be fairly harmless. Oops. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jEyjF2bNQOA
https://reptilesmagazine.com/the-dea...2027%2C%201957.
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And a few more notables to read up on-
Joseph Bruno Slowinski (November 15, 1962 – September 12, 2001) was an American herpetologist who worked extensively with elapid snakes.
Dieter Zorn- https://www.huffpost.com/entry/diete...bite_n_3478968
Robert Merten- ..."famed herpetologist Robert Merten documented his death by twig snake bite in his journal, which took 18 days to prove fatal. He wrote near the end that it was "the only appropriate demise for a herpetologist". Not sure I agree with that, lol.
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Stolen World is a must read
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Re: History of Snake Keeping
Originally Posted by jmcrook
Stolen World is a must read
I'll second that, tks.
Last edited by Bogertophis; 06-30-2023 at 01:03 AM.
Rudeness is the weak man's imitation of strength.
Eric Hoffer (1902 - 1983)
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Re: History of Snake Keeping
Raymond L. Ditmars: His Exciting Career With Reptiles, Insects and Animals by Laura Newbold Wood
People to check on:
Laurence Klauber (The Rattlesnakes), Clifford Pope (Snakes alive and how they live), H. B. "Bern" Bechtel (first bred amelanistic corns), Carl Kauffeld (Snakes and snake hunting), Ross Allen
Somewhere I read that the spotty distribution of aesculapian rat snakes in Europe could be correlated with temples to Aesculapius in the Roman Empire.
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Men and snakes, by Desmond Morris, has stuff from centuries back and around the world.
The Chicago Herpetological Society, Northern Ohio Association of Herpetologists (NOAH) and other amateur groups were in existence and sending out newsletters 50+ years ago. Finding copies might be difficult, though.
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