Thanks for the welcome!

I'm actually an anthropology major and I'm looking at going into the field of culinary anthropology.

We have a great faculty, though, and our campus is over 10,000 acres so the school and bio department are VERY big on animals and herps, but primarily native species. It's funny you should ask; I didn't even get into snakes until my boyfriend (Brad) gave me Radio for my birthday in January. Since then I've bought two others, and he's bought some new guys (he's kept snakes off and on his whole life though) so together we have 1.1 BRB, 1.1 Egg eaters, 1.0 Ball, 1.1 hypo apricot Pueblan milks, and 1.0 Honduran milk. Oh, and the apricot milk dropped an unexpected clutch two days ago, so we're incubating some eggs, AND currently rehabilitating a female snapping turtle found with a broken jaw on campus. She's in bad shape, but we found a great herp-friendly vet who worked some magic on her jaw and we're slowly tubing her with cat food and seeing gradual improvement. She's very gravid, so hopefully we'll have some baby snappers in the near future to release back into the wild.

I guess you could call those projects... Also, Brad is working for the bio department this summer on campus, doing an inventory of all the reptiles in the area. Poor thing, he's getting paid to go out in the field for several hours a day and hunt for snakes and lizards. What an unpleasant job. I'm working for a restaurant, but I try to go out in the field with him when I can.



That was probably a longer reply than you bargained for. Thanks for the encouragement though! If you can't tell, I am pretty passionate about my babies, even though I'm pretty new to this whole herp thing.
-----
1.1 BRB (Radio & Audrey)

1.0 African egg eater (Loki)

[ Show Entire Thread ]