Animal Planet - Promoting snake abuse?

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I apologize if this has been talked about already; I haven't been on much lately, so I could only do a cursory glance at the recent posts, and I didn't see any threads about it....

Has anyone heard about the guy from "Wild Recon" on Animal Planet locking himself in a glass room with 100 snakes for 10 days?

Here's one article about it.

100 snakes in a completely-glass room, with no place to hide, and amongst some snakes that only eat other snakes in the wild. How is that, by itself, not animal abuse?

Additionally, I have evidence of an even worse fate for the snakes. The article says that "some" of the snakes were donated to a scientific organization and would be given "good homes." Yes, this is third-party information, but a friend of mine works in the life sciences department; her advisor is a herpetologist, and he said he managed to rescue one of the venomous snakes from this ordeal, while most of the rest were killed. He took the snake to the vet where my friend works, and she says the snake was extremely stressed and sick, and it is not certain if it will survive.

Now, believe the third-party information or not; I completely trust these sources, however--they have no reason to lie whatsoever. But even if you don't believe my sources, how in the WORLD is this even REMOTELY humane? What kind of crap is this? And it was done by a guy from ANIMAL PLANET. If Animal Planet actually cares about animals, how could they let this happen or--at the bare minimum--NOT condemn it afterward?

I am posting this because I think this story needs to get out. We need to hold people like this responsible for their vile actions. Hearing about this publicity stunt made my blood boil with fury. Can you imagine the public whiplash if he'd put ocelots, lions, tigers, leopards, housecats, jaguars, pumas, etc. all in a glass box for ten days without food, shelter, or protection from the other animals?

Sorry. This just really HONKS ME OFF.

If anyone has any additional information about this, please post it here for us!