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Wilmer W. Tanner with taxidermied tiger specimen
... that
Wilmer Tanner
(pictured with a tiger trophy)
, born 1909, described at least fifteen new
species
or
genera
?
...that the
Olive python
,
Australia
's second largest snake, can eat prey as large as a
wallaby
?
... that one of the few cases of
poisoning
by the
Montpellier snake
occurred when someone stuck his finger into the snake's mouth?
... that twenty-six U.S. states have an
official reptile
?
... that the American minister
George Went Hensley
taught that Christians should eschew baseball and embrace venomous snakes?