In most cases these accounts are edited versions of a spoken interview. They have not been researched and may differ from the printed article. I'm a big-time snake hunter, and since I was a kid I dreamed about going to New Guinea to catch a green tree python. I missed out on the chance to catch one myself when I was in Papua, but I made up for it when I got carpet pythons, scrub pythons, and a couple of white-lipped snakes in Queensland, Australia. The challenge in snake catching is that you have to be quick enough to apprehend one without being bitten.
Some snakes are terribly poisonous.
If you slip up, you could be dead. I get a thrill out of being able to capture something that can kill me. It's a challenge. That's why the Crocodile Hunter does it, and that's why I do it. I was out frogging one night in Panama when I walked straight into a low corrugated-metal roof and almost sliced off the end of my nose.