None of the snakes that students work with are venomous, but it still hurts if you get bitten, he notes. That means Lucio has to kill the large rats. He brings in a baggie of dead mice from the rat room, removes the clips from the glass cover on a case, eases it off and deposits a mouse in front of Grumpy. Grumpy is a male rat snake. He and Diaz discuss Samson, a ball python.
Titan is a Colombian boa, the lid of whose cage is weighted down with bricks.
Otherwise he gets out. The intern program works well, Garcia says, because once the interns are trained, they make a genuine contribution. I like to see them taking a stake in what they do. Only selected stories from The Brownsville Herald Newspaper are published on the Internet. To get complete coverage please subscribe to The Brownsville Herald by clicking here.