Our next General Meeting will be 
Friday August 6, 2010
Myke Clarkson

"Stiletto Snakes: Their Lives, Their Venom and My Left Thumb" 

An all new live presentation on the genus atractaspis complete with the first person bite story that was featured on TV's "I Was Bitten" that aired on the Discovery Channel. With an exhaustive naturual history review, and photography from world class photographers Donald Schultz, and Devon Massyn this is one not to be missed.

Myke Clarkson has spent his life researching, photographing, and working with the animals many people fear and or loathe--snakes. Fear can often be a sensible reaction to some of the animals Myke deals with. Less than two years ago a risky antivenom research project cost him his left thumb and nearly his life. Some could have seen this injury as the opportune time to hang up the snake hook and retire, but instead Myke has taken it to a whole new level. Myke is now traveling to more countries than before, and working on several major television programs as an Animal Handler and Consulting Producer. While away Myke is still taking more award winning Photographs than ever before, and even squeezing some time in for some humanitarian Antivenom Research with AVRI. To Myke this isn't a job, it's not a hobby, it's a passion that he hopes to share with the world.

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