Diary of a Snake Bite
By kingsnake.com · November 25, 2015 9:26 am
A new snake crosses your table, although it exhibits traits of a known venomous snake, it is missing several key markers.
What is it? Is it venomous? If so, just how venomous is it?
The situation becomes less an exercise in academics when the unknown subject of your research bites you.
That is the situation herpetologist Karl P. Schmidt found himself in at The Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago in 1957. After being bitten his time was limited and he knew it. So he did what any good researcher would do, he documented it. He knew there was no accessible anti-venom, but never believed he had received the full dose of venom. In a short video, you spend those last hours with him as he documents his experience.
Read more at Science Friday.
