Just a lil’ tidbit I forgot to put in yesterday.

This is Eduardo…he was the main driver for the workshop down in Costa Rica and is…again…some relation of some sort to Dennis if we recall correctly. Anyways…here he is doing the whole “readjust the critter perch for the photographers” thing. In this one he was adjusting the position of the Masked Tree Frog

What you can’t see in this shot is the little music stand looking thing with a clamp on it that is holding up the flower the frog is sitting on. Once the frog was put away…the flower was replaced by a palm leaf of some variety for the venomous juvenile Eyelash Viper to perch on…here’s a reminder of that positioning from yesterday.

As I said…this viper was 12 or 15 inches long…more than a newborn but still juvenile although still venomous and being a juvenile it hasn’t really learned the ability to inject part of it’s venom based on the size of the target as an adult one would but rather when a juvenile strikes (as in most snakes) it injects the entire amount stored in it’s venom glands…and even a juvenile has enough to kill a person especially if medical help isn’t immediately available which it wasn’t in the Costa Rican rain forest.

Anyway…he was in about the same position as in the shot above and grabbed the stand to reorient the palm leaf but sorta wasn’t paying attention to the viper while he was doing so. Just the slightest inadvertent jerk of the stand and whoops…off fell the snake. Naturally…instead of falling harmlessly to the ground it landed on his wrist where it stayed for about a millisecond before he tossed it off and it fell safely to the ground where Snake Guy wrangled it back into it’s expected position.

Neil forgot to send me his photo yesterday that I was gonna use when I told this story and I forgot to ask him about it. So…there, now ya’know.

Interesting thing found on the net yesterday.

Cyas.