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Bad Press, is it herpetologists fault? |
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Alan Hyde
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Posted: 24 Apr 2007 at 5:05pm |
I've raised this issue on other forums before but wondered how others here felt about it.
As we know it can be a tough job getting joe public to warm to reptiles , especially snakes , and i've often thought that the names chosen do not help. For example: Death Adder Hissing B****rd snake Puff adder Tiger snake King Brown Cotton mouth Lancehead Many are very harsh , hard sounding names that give the wrong first impression, maybe? Would someone warm to a dog called the Death Guard dog, or Howling B*****rd Hound? When we compare these names to those of butterflies Painted Lady Red Admiral Silver studded Eros blue Fratillary These all give the impression of something beautiful and delicate , like jewels Maybe the adder should be called ... Heather ghost snake And the grassy the River iris snake LOL! |
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Alan Hyde
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I've just thought, this should be retitled. Of course it's not herpers fault , snakes have been demonised for centurys.
This thread should be called, "Bad Press , are herpetologists helping the situation?" |
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Alan Hyde
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Alan Hyde
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Nice heavy breathing puffie snake
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Wolfgang Wuster
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Cripes Tony, you can barely see the tube in the thumbnail photo. I never had you down as a freehandler...
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Wolfgang Wüster
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AGILIS
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Rat snake should be called Rodent control or disspersal snake
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Alan Hyde
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Hi Keith,
Indeed! That would make snake haters stop and think. Yellow Rodent Controler Bairds Rodent controler Ah now if i'd discovered my fave, the rhino viper it'd be called the, Velvet Forest Jewel Imagine Attenboroughs narration. Instead of Spooky music in the background and, "Here on the forest floor the highly venomous Rhino viper waits silently for prey" it could be, "Here on the forest floor a species rarely documented on natural history programmes. It's a shy delicate species called the velvet forest Jewel" |
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AGILIS
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constrictors called be called the huggy Huggy (my abo name )the snake that loves to hug you
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LOL!
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