Here is a link to the species list.
Six months ago all we had as far as venomous goes was a few of the locals and an Armenian Viper. Doug Hotie has taken this reptile collection to a world class reptile zoo.
We arrived and were greeted by the Komodo Dragon exhibit as usual and meandered over to the next area and found staff walking around:
and some of the other exhibits:
Snouted Cobra
Bushmaster
Temple Viper
Quince Monitor
Eastern Diamondback Rattlesnake
We got this far and then noticed a sign for a keeper talk and it was August's friend doing the talk. Nobody showed up for it except us, so he asked if we wanted to see the back area. That was a no brainer! First we went to the quarantine room and saw these:
Crocodile Skink
Temple Viper
This little guy puffed at us!
Banded Rock Rattlesnake
Desert Tortoise
Lancehead Rattlesnake
Among many others! Then he took us around to the back end of the dragon cage:
Komodo
We then went to the back of one of the exhibit areas:
Red-footed Tortoise
They had three cages with King Cobras in them but they were all out of view :? The guy giving the tour then said, let me get one out for you. We backed up and he got one of them out:
We then went to Saltwater Croc building and were able to hold a baby alligator!
Nancy with it
Me showing off its belly
Iwalani holding - she was pretty scared!
Nikki with it
Chris likes to make faces
Jeremy holding it
And then the main attraction in the building:
Salty
And then on to the alligators:
American Alligators
On our way out we noticed this in a tree near the exit:
Miller's Chameleon
I got a video of it eating:
We ended our tour there and went on to the rest of the reptile house:
Puff Adder
Florida Cottonmouth
Black Forest Cobras
Retics
Rhinoceros Viper
Banded Water Cobra
Red Spitting Cobra
Black Mambas
Storr's Monitor
Then my battery died! That was pretty much all that was new, but what a great improvement! It was a great experience! I will leave you with a picture of a silly gorilla:
Josh
