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In 2012, we caught poachers with a huge haul of tiger snakes, geckos, berg adders, house snakes, and horned adders.

So he set up two serpentariums so that they could house snakes and use their venom to make antivenin.

Such laws are infamous beyond expression; one would suppose they had been passed by a Legislature, the lower house of which were hyenas, the upper house snakes, and the executive a cannibal king.

The beautiful blue house snake—four feet in length, with rows of spots on its side—is often mistaken for the corn snake, its habits being very similar.

“Look out, Jane, it might be a house snake, though I didn’t know we ever had them here.”