Bad Press, is it herpetologists fault?

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!

East African Gaboon

Cripes Tony, you can barely see the tube in the thumbnail photo. I never had you down as a freehandler...



Cheers,

Wolfgang

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"

constrictors called be called the huggy Huggy (my  abo name )the snake  that loves to hug you

Edited by AGILIS