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Do you like snakes, lizards and frogs? Why herpetology might be the career for you

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par Hiral Naik, PhD candidate: School of Animal, Plant and Environmental Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand

We are so fortunate to share the world with a huge diversity of creatures. For me, some of the most fascinating are reptiles and amphibians. Collectively called herpetofauna, reptiles and amphibians are ectotherms; they rely on external sources to regulate their body temperature.

A person like me who works with these groups of animals is called a herpetologist. Among the reptiles and amphibians, my special interest is in snakes. I’ve always been interested in reptiles, from the days when I…

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