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Snakes On a...Well, in a Controlled Environment
February 7, 2007 at 11:32 AM | 0 Comments
While some people prefer seeing cuddly koalas or tear-jerkingly endangered pandas on their holidays, others want to go straight to those scary long nasties: snakes. One impressive place to spot them is in Sao Paulo's Butantan Institute which has a 700 acre herpetology center. The institute is famous worldwide for producing antivenom and vaccines against all kinds of nasty bites, and the poisonous snakes they keep are "milked" for their venom. Yum.
The serpentarium (also known as the snake pit) opens to the public 6 days a week and costs just over a dollar to get in, and you'll see more live snakes than we ever want to. So go visit the snakes. You know you want to. (But we'll just wait somewhere on a nice Brazilian beach).
[Photo: Marco De Santis]
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