Bad Press, is it herpetologists fault?
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Topic: Bad Press, is it herpetologists fault?
Posted By: Alan Hyde
Subject: Bad Press, is it herpetologists fault?
Date Posted: 24 Apr 2007 at 5:05pm
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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! ------------- O-> O+> |
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Posted By: Alan Hyde
Date Posted: 24 Apr 2007 at 5:12pm
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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?"  ------------- O-> O+> |
Posted By: Alan Hyde
Date Posted: 24 Apr 2007 at 5:17pm
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East African Gaboon ------------- O-> O+> |
Posted By: Alan Hyde
Date Posted: 24 Apr 2007 at 6:36pm
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Nice heavy breathing puffie snake
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Posted By: Wolfgang Wuster
Date Posted: 25 Apr 2007 at 4:32am
Cripes Tony, you can barely see the tube in the thumbnail photo. I never had you down as a freehandler...
Cheers, Wolfgang ------------- Wolfgang Wüster School of Biological Sciences, University of Wales, Bangor http://pages.bangor.ac.uk/~bss166/ |
Posted By: AGILIS
Date Posted: 26 Apr 2007 at 3:11am
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Rat snake should be called Rodent control or disspersal snake
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Posted By: Alan Hyde
Date Posted: 26 Apr 2007 at 3:27am
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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" ------------- O-> O+> |
Posted By: Alan Hyde
Date Posted: 26 Apr 2007 at 4:29am
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Brown Parrot ------------- O-> O+> |
Posted By: AGILIS
Date Posted: 26 Apr 2007 at 5:15am
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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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Posted By: Alan Hyde
Date Posted: 26 Apr 2007 at 6:50am
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LOL! ------------- O-> O+> |