Hunter Serpentology / T.C.R.S.

Keep an eye out for updated photos and other news from "The Cobraman" Ray Hunter! Always, always handle snakes safely; many times there is no second chance!

The pictured handling techniques are not recommended to the viewers of this page, please DO NOT attempt to copy what you see here! Keep in mind that I stock antivenoms, and I've been self-immunizing for many years and still have had some near fatal bites where I wound up in a hospital intensive care unit (see last pics below). Nobody really respects a show-off, so please handle snakes safely! One out of every 100 people I hear from expresses their concern that the above type photos could inspire others to copy me. So if you are one of those people that is inspired to copy every dangerous thing you see on TV or the internet, my advise to you is: A) DON'T!!!, and B) stay off the internet and don't watch TV ! Be Blessed! Thanks to all, "The Cobraman" Ray Hunter, Sc.D.

Ray & Condo King

13' King Cobra

This is the largest BLACK MAMBA I have ever personally handled. He is 11 feet and weighs about 20 lbs. He is captive born and shows no interest in biting anything except large rats. (That is not me in this pic improperly handling such a dangerous snake)

Myself & Don Kaye (the proud new owner of the monster mamba).

Yellow-Speckled CAPE COBRA (Naja nivea)

Of course I had to piss him off.

5 foot Indian Cobra

Indian Cobra

My male Leucistic Monocled Cobra from Mitch @ Diamond Reptiles

Female 100% het. for leucistic & 33% het for sunset............but still a Monocled Cobra. Again, thanks Mitch!

Neotropical Rattlesnake

6' Male Boomslang

The happy couple

West African Rhino Viper

Sri Lankan Palm Viper

Baby Cape Cobra

Ray's c.b. Egypt. Cobra

Aquatic Coral Snake

Speckled Cape Cobra

Indian Cobra hood pattern

Gaboon Viper

Red Spitting Cobra

South African Puff Adder

Waglers Viper

Ray Hunter (with Ray Goushaw in background) catching a 14 foot male Malaysian King Cobra.

Ray with 10 foot King Cobra

Grabbing 10 foot King Cobra

Ray catching 10 foot King Cobra

What's this??? Ray with a SNAKE HOOK???????? Alert the media!

Ray showing how NOT to photograph a baby King Cobra

Ray catching an Egyptian Cobra

Ray with 'Spaz', a 4+ foot Indian Cobra.

Ray with rare Piebald Monocle Cobra

Ray with Formosan Cobra

Catching 10 foot King Cobra

King puts up enogh of a fight that a snake stick is used (even if it is backwards)

Captive born baby Black Mamba, considered the world's most dangerous snake (and rightly so)

Holding a baby Black Mamba. This is something I would never do again. This should NEVER be copied!!!

Ray with East African Green Mamba.

Fangs of a West African Green Mamba.

African Bush Viper (rare black color phase)

Female Rhino Viper

Male

Desert Horn Viper

Monocle Cobra showing fangs

Egyptian Cobra

Ray with Malaysian Krait

Another thing I would never do again

Banded Kraits

Ray and Monocle Cobra

Ray and 13 foot King Cobra

African Bush Viper

The Suphan Cobra that killed my friend (Les) in 1995

Catch the King

I was honored to meet with Mike Perry (www.africanreptiles-venom.co.za) during his visit in July 08 to obtain blood samples from Bill Haast, Tim Friede, and myself. Mike Perry produces much of the venoms SAIMR uses for antivenoms for African venomous snakes.

Ray and Mr. William Haast of Miami Serpentarium Labs. (Bill is holding a banded krait)

My friend (Robert Alleva from the Discovery series "I WAS BITTEN") with one of my Gaboon Vipers

Robert poses with my Monocled Cobra

Marco Zeno (Gatorland) with Pigmy Rattler we found herping

Robert (with Pigmy Rattler) and I herping

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Some of Cobraman's bite pictures (warning---not a pretty sight)

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Ray in ICU after a Rock Rattlesnake bite that required 15 vials of antivenin.

Swollen hand after Malaysian Hagen's Viper bit to the left index finger tip.

Egyptian Cobra bite to right index finger.

Hagen's Viper bite on left index finger

OUCH!!!!

Tissue distruction from Hagen's Viper bite

My LAST (and I mean LAST) snake bite!!!

5.5 foot Eastern Diamondback Rattlesnake that bit me 10/27/07.

On vent. for 5 days after bite that required 33 vials of Crofab antivenom, and five week hospi tal stay.

8 cut fasciotomy and bleb at site of bite.

5 weeks after bite

PLEASE DO NOT COPY ANYTHING YOU SEE ME DO IN THESE PHOTOS. IF YOU DO, YOUR FINGERS WILL LOOK LIKE THE ABOVE PICTURES (IF YOU ARE LUCKY), OR YOU WILL BE DEAD. I STOCK ANTIVENOM, AND SELF IMMUNIZE, BUT EVEN THESE PRECAUTIONS DO NOT GUARANTEE MY SURVIVAL OF MY NEXT BITE. Be Blessed!!! Ray Hunter, PhD (Cobraman)