Fantastic, affordable, and educational little day trip. Great opportunity to teach kids a love and respect for snakes!
Reptile World Serpentarium的点评
点评:A piece of old Florida. It was interesting to see the wide variety of different species of snakes, many of which were venomous. There were also turtles, tortoises, and alligators.
The venom milking demonstration was fantastic and a real treat! George skillfully and carefully handles the snakes so that their venom gets collected in front of a live audience (behind glass of course), so that antibodies can be made to venomous snake bite victims. Afterwards, he brought out a harmless kingsnake and let my kids handle it and learn about snakes. He was very patient with my young kids, was polite, and did an excellent job at educating them and teaching them to appreciate and respect snakes.
Yes there was somewhat of a political tone to the lecture prior to the milking demonstration - but it is a story that needed to be heard given the context of the current state of wildlife in this state and how snakes and other native wildlife and their habitats are being destroyed by sprawl and development. I had no problem with him educating the audience about this in front of my small children. He was very passionate about what is happening to wildlife, and rightfully so. He also spoke out against certain health care organizations exploiting snake bite victims by selling anti venom at outrageously high and disgusting prices sending victims and their families into bankruptcy in order to treat an envenomation. He rightfully and justifiably felt that a snake bite shouldn’t cost a bite victim his or her life savings these days. I thank George for his time, dedication, and the guts to speak out against what has been happening in this country and state. He said what needed to be said. Our family will be back! Kids have a new fascination and respect for snakes and other wildlife now.
翻译:一块古老的佛罗里达。看到各种各样不同种类的蛇很有趣,其中许多是有毒的。还有海龟、乌龟和鳄鱼。
毒液挤奶演示太棒了,真是一种享受!乔治熟练而小心地处理这些蛇,以便在现场观众面前(当然是在玻璃后面)收集它们的毒液,这样就可以为毒蛇咬伤的受害者产生抗体。后来,他拿出一条无害的王蛇,让我的孩子们接触它并了解蛇。他对我年幼的孩子非常有耐心,很有礼貌,并且在教育他们并教导他们欣赏和尊重蛇方面做得非常出色。
是的,在挤奶演示之前的讲座有些政治色彩 - 但考虑到该州野生动物的现状以及蛇和其他本土野生动物及其栖息地的情况,这是一个需要听到的故事因无序扩张和发展而遭到破坏。我对他在我的孩子面前教育观众这一点没有任何意见。他对野生动物的现状充满热情,这是理所当然的。他还公开反对某些医疗机构利用蛇咬伤患者的利益,以高得离谱且令人作呕的价格出售抗蛇毒血清,从而导致受害者及其家人破产,以治疗毒液。他理直气壮地认为,如今被蛇咬伤不应该让受害者损失毕生积蓄。我感谢乔治付出的时间、奉献精神以及敢于公开反对这个国家和州所发生的事情的勇气。他说了需要说的话。我们的家人会回来的!孩子们现在对蛇和其他野生动物有了新的迷恋和尊重。