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RE: How rare?

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Posted by: texasreptiles at Sun Dec 17 15:41:38 2006   [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by texasreptiles ]  
   

Scarce in the wild and in zoo collections, but not rare.
When I managed a large import/export reptiles dealership in the mid-nineties we recieved about 10-12 a year from S.A.

The native people who collected the snakes were very afraid of them and usually avoided them when encountered in the wild.
Only after hounding the exporter, we then secured 10-12 spread out over a years worth of imports.

At one time, I had 17 specimens in my private collection. I don't work with Lachesis anymore as I have focused my interest on Asian pitvipers, however Bushmasters are great to work with and their "reported" behavior of being savage etc. is overrated.

   

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