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Kentucky Reptile Zoo is a non-profit facility in Slade, Kentucky, that specializes in venomous reptiles and the acquisition of venom through a process called venom extraction. [1] The venom is collected for use in medical research programs as well as for the production of anti-serum. The Kentucky Reptile Zoo is owned by Jim Harrison.
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A herpetarium which specializes in snakes is an ophidiarium or serpentarium, which are more common as stand-alone entities also known as snake farms. Many snake farms milk snakes for venom for medical and scientific research.
Lewis Adventure Farm & Zoo, New Era; Ogemaw Nature Park, West Branch; Oswald’s Bear Ranch, Newberry; Potter Park Zoo, Lansing; Rooftop Landing Reindeer Farm, Clare; Sunrise Side Nature Trail and Exotic Park, Tawas City; Supe's Exotic Jungle, Fenton; Roscommon Zoo, Roscommon; The Creature Conservancy, Ann Arbor; Wilderness Trails Zoo, Birch Run
Rattlesnakes are venomous snakes that form the genera Crotalus and Sistrurus [1] of the subfamily Crotalinae (the pit vipers). ... Kentucky, September 15, 1946
On October 23, 2014, the zoo announced that their 11-year-old reticulated python, Thelma, had produced six healthy baby snakes in 2012 without any prior interaction with a male. She is the first known individual of her species (the world's largest species of snake) to have done so in captivity. [ 33 ]
Rattlesnake (probably) Kentucky — Collins was bitten during a religious service in the community of Arjay, Bell County. [66] [67] [68] August 8, 1995 Melinda Brown, 28, female Rattlesnake: Kentucky — Brown was bitten while handling a snake during a religious service in Middlesboro, on August 6, 1995. She died two days later.
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