Bill Boesenberg
Phone: 973-248-9964 Email: bill@snakes-n-scales.com
Snakes-N-Scales is always looking to serve
the school community with more attentive service,
reasonable prices and the best auditorium and
classroom programs anywhere!
Our prices for a single show are less than the cost
of renting a bus.
All secondary consecutive shows are discounted.
We serve the areas of New Jersey,
Southern New York state, New York City,
Long Island, Western Connecticut, Philadelphia
and Eastern Pennsylvania so our traveling is modest,
which is both greener and less expensive.
Everyone here has animal handling and/or teaching experience before they come to us. Each person must go through a training period with our owner, 26 years experienced, Herpetologist, Bill Boesenberg
to be sure that everyone can easily and safely handle
the animals that we use.
Our programs are diverse in topic,
educationally appropriate and a lot of fun.
We feel that just being amusing isn’t good enough
for a school show, there has to be
SCIENCE or HISTORY or LANGUAGE ARTS CONTENT.
This show brings the biggest reptiles in any show within 100miles, truly our WOW show.
It also usually brings our herpetologist, and founder
Bill Boesenberg
himself to your event. The “WOW” can come from watchinga nearly 100 lb America Alligator, “Blue,” sit in Bill’s lap, like a great black puppy; or from a 6 ft Water Monitor Lizard, “Elizardbeth,” hangout and sniff the air with her foot long tongue, while everyone laughs at the story of how she came to us; or you might be “Wowed” by getting to touch the gentle beautiful giant, “Hernia,” a 100 lb Burmese Python.
Our instructors, Bill or not, are experts at enthralling and informing all
interest and grade levels with a combination of humor, awe and compassion for creatures to which most people rarely get this close.
This is good large venue program where there will be lots of people, 300+ is not a problem.
This show needs a lot of space, no less than 12x8 ft just for us. Not including the audience.
Two six foot tables and a chair must be provided.
The animals and carriers combined weigh in excess of 300 lbs. therefore the show needs to take place on the first floor or an elevator must be available.
PRICES FOR THE GREAT REPTILES
NORTH NJ (201,973,908,)#-299 $380#300+$450
CENTRAL NJ & SI (732, 609, 856, 718 Excluding So NJ)#-299 $410#300+$480
SOUTH NY (845, 914, 516, 631)#-299 $410#300+$480
NYC (212, 718, 917, 646, 347)#-299 $500#300+$570
No. PA (Delaware Valley), #-299 $410#300+$480
CT (203)#-299 $410#300+$480
PHILLY & SOUTH NJ
(Atlantic, Cape May, Gloucester, Salem, Cumberland)#-299 $450#300+$520
This is our most popular show.
Most of these animals can be touched under the watchful eyes of our instructor. We might bring lizards like a Bearded Dragon, or a Blue-Tongued Skink, or maybe a Leopard Gecko or a small Monitor Lizard; for turtles you might meet a Box Turtle, African Tortoise or a Red-foot Tortoise, (We have many water turtles as well, like Soft-shell and Snappers, but they can’t be touched.)
Representing the snakes we have all manner of Kingsnakes, Corn Snakes, Rat Snakes and Milksnakes.
The finale will be a big Boa Constrictor or an amazing Burmese Python. And as something only Snakes-N-Scales can bring to you, a baby American Alligator.
We'll talk about the specialties of each and what they eat,
joke about things they do and find out if these creatures
make good pets.
Nearly all of the several hundred Snakes-N-Scales
Reptiles, Amphibians, Bugs, Spiders, Fish and Invertebrates can be used in our programs.
We’ve got more traveling animals than several major zoos combined!
So if there is some creature you want to see please ask us!
PRICES FOR THE STRANGE WORLD OF REPTILES
NORTH NJ (201,973,908,)$280
CENTRAL NJ & SI (732, 609, 856, 718 Excluding So NJ)$310
SOUTH NY (845, 914, 516, 631)$310
NYC (212, 718, 917, 646, 347)$400
No. PA (Delaware Valley), $310
CT (203)$310
PHILLY & SOUTH NJ (Atlantic, Cape May, Gloucester, Salem, Cumberland)$350
This is a unique program to Snakes-N-Scales. It may include invertebrate animals such as the underwater strongman the Starfish, the peaceful but spiny Sea Urchins, the patient and still Sponge, the Red, White and Blue Patriot Crab, and the amazing Blue Lobster. Most of these are touchable and have no ability to hurt anyone.
Also included are several of the following fish, "the sharp bellied Clown Knife Fish, the weird, whiskered, Amazonian Arawana, the snake-like predator the Moray Eel, the freshwater bully, the Oscar or everyone’s favorite lost fish, the Clown Fish, just like in the movie!
(True fish are not touchable.)
This show will be presented over the course of an hour using our brand of jokes, stories and “animals’ eye views discussing what it’s like to live in the water, how these animals find food and avoid becoming food. This show will look at these incredible creatures in a fun hands-on, very interactive way to find the fun facts about these wonderful denizens of the deep and shallows.
You may also choose our unique Stingray activity.
PRICES FOR FISH TALES AND OCEAN ODDBALLS
NORTH NJ (201,973,908,)$360
CENTRAL NJ & SI (732, 609, 856, 718 Excluding So NJ)$375
SOUTH NY (845, 914, 516, 631)$385
NYC (212, 718, 917, 646, 347)$460
No. PA (Delaware Valley), $375
CT (203)$375
PHILLY & SOUTH NJ (Atlantic, Cape May, Gloucester, Salem, Cumberland)$410
Stingray Activity $75
SNAKES-N-SCALES
presents two of the most misunderstood animals on the planet,
the PIRANHA and the SHARK.
Our Red-bellied Piranha is available now and our Bamboo Shark in November 2010.
Please call Bill for all the details.
“THIS IS THE BEST ANIMAL SHOW YOU’LL EVER SEE.”
The Snapping Turtle, the Coatimundi, the Python, the Fox,
the Alligator, the Wolf and a few surprises;
all go fang to fang in a comedic verbal game of
“my predator is better than yours,”
delivered by two of the most gifted animal presenters in the United States,
Herpetologist Bill Boesenberg,
"Presssident" of
Snakes-N-Scales,
and Animal Expert Travis Gale,
owner of Eyes of the Wild.
Observe each of these animals live,
and find out which predator is the most successful, which is the most resourceful, the largest, the fastest, the smartest, which is the most dangerous to us and which are we the most dangerous to. Look through the animals’ eyes,as Travis and Bill use their years of experience to give the audience unique and unusual points of view. Learn about the predators habits and habitats, their ecology and their personalities, all while enjoying these two entertainers’ antics and skill.
This program easily accommodates a couple hundred people, and will keep them laughing, learning and interested for an hour and a half. Program can be made appropriate all ages
This show goes anywhere in NJ, NYC, Southern NY state, Delaware Valley PA,
DE and CT, for $1500
YER DESSSPICABLE!! ANACONDA, ALLIGATOR, MONITOR LIZARD, TARANTULA, SCORPION, SNAPPING TURTLE AND BURMESE PYTHON These are the animals we love to hate. TV, movies, bedtime stories and even children’s nursery rhymes use these animals as monsters and villains, but are they really that bad? Movie monsters are almost always based on living creatures. The incredible effects of modern film make the
monster seem more real than the animals they were made from! Meet these and other
“reprehensible” creatures in your classroom and learn for yourself.
THE GOOD, THE ICKY AND THE SLIMY Bugs and spiders, along with frogs and snakes, are thought to be “icky” by many people. But the amazing animals in this show will make you forget your discomfort! The Madagascar Hissing Cockroach of “Fear Factor” fame, is just a lot of air and really nothing to be afraid of. Tarantulas are actually hairy, peace loving creatures, scorpions glow in the dark, (Yes really!) Frogs swallow food with their eyes and toads are poisonous. And most amazing are the snakes, which have no eye lids, replaceable teeth, a skull with hinges, they live nearly everywhere, eat everything from deer to fish to alligators and have over 3000 species!
EXTINCTION IN THE TROPICAL RAIN FOREST Travel in your mind with us, to the world’s shrinking tropical rain forests and look at what is causing its creatures to become extinct. Meet reptiles and amphibians: like the oddly named Carpet Python, that lives in trees, not on the floor; the poisonous Cane Toad that is supposed to live someplace else; the bright and curious Water Monitor Lizard; and of course the big and beautiful Burmese Python. These animals are trying to survive the changes that we are producing in these amazing places. Education is the first step to the understanding of a problem, learn what we can all do to make this a better world and come be a part of the solution!
PRICES FOR YER DESSSPICABLE, THE GOOD, THE ICKY AND THE SLIMY
AND EXTINCTION IN THE TROPICAL RAIN FOREST
NORTH NJ (201,973,908,)$290
CENTRAL NJ & SI (732, 609, 856, 718 Excluding So NJ)$320
SOUTH NY (845, 914, 516, 631)$320
NYC (212, 718, 917, 646, 347)$375
No. PA (Delaware Valley), $320
CT (203)$320
PHILLY & SOUTH NJ (Atlantic, Cape May, Gloucester, Salem, Cumberland)$330
Reptiles are deep in our minds and our society to a
surprising degree. Think about all the stories of dragons,
the fables that include snakes, the terror struck, yet awed
accounts of crocodiles and it isn’t hard to see that these
scaly beasts hold a strange and special place
in out thinking and our culture.
Using live reptiles, maps, art and artifacts this program
looks at some of the roots of why humans have always
both feared and respected reptiles. The peoples of
Ancient Egypt, Rome, Polynesia, Medieval Europe and
the Modern West are touched upon.
5th grade and above please.
PRICES FOR REPTILES IN MYTHOLOGY CULTURE AND HISTORY
NORTH NJ (201,973,908,)$290
CENTRAL NJ & SI (732, 609, 856, 718 Excluding So NJ)$320
SOUTH NY (845, 914, 516, 631)$320
NYC (212, 718, 917, 646, 347)$375
No. PA (Delaware Valley), $320
CT (203)$320
PHILLY & SOUTH NJ (Atlantic, Cape May, Gloucester, Salem, Cumberland)$330
This program is also available for an audience of up to 300. Please add $100 to above prices.
