When I was learning how to work with venomous reptiles, it was part of my job to always sink the heads of the baby gaboon and rhino vipers heads in the clean water bowl. When I asked my teacher "who is a great friend and mentor" why we did this his reply was "because they are water bowl stupid" and as a 19 year old at the time I took it as another part of keeping animals in captivity.



But now I understand better as too why and how to work around that.



Now I look back at dipping there heads and water bowls and think how much I stressed those baby snakes, when their are so many better ways of going about to prevent dehydration.



I am so glad I learned that I don't need to do that anymore.

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