Snakes-N-Scales is an unique organization in many ways, but not least in our ability to serve multiple audiences. Unlike others, our background is herpetology, so we can speak, as experts, on an adult level, and with authority.

The following presentations may share a similar name or topic with programs for younger audiences, but those offered in this section will be presented for adults, with adult themes, requiring adult thought processes. Children are NOT permitted in these programs.

Predators have been feared and loathed in most societies for nearly all of human history. Part of the animosity stems from their competition with us, and part of it comes from the possibility of them preying on us. Even smaller predators were hated for stealing from our traps or destroying our livestock.

Our ultra-modern society has moved passed the trapper and even the farmer, but our need to fear the predators lives on in arguments over wolves in the lower 48, alligators on our golf courses, snapping turtles digging in out begonia beds, foxes eating our stray cats and pythons loose in the Everglades.
 

This show looks at the reptilian and mammalian predators in the cold light of science fact while still injecting humor and irony to keep everyone happily following along.
 

Included in this show is a 6.5 ft American Alligator, Fenec Fox, Snapping Turtle, Domestic ferret, Asian Water Monitor, Coatimundi, a 100 lb Burmese Python and a juvenile North American Grey Wolf, Black Variant.
 

This program is presented by Snakes-N-Scales founder and Herpetologist

Bill Boesenberg

And Eyes Of The Wild owner and mammal expert

Travis Gale.

These two men have dedicated their lives to the preservation of these animals through the education of people. They are also expert presenters that will not disappoint, with a wealth of accurate information and ironic quick witted entertainment.
 

As our world shrinks around us, through habitat use and misuse, it is vital that we understand the predators as they are, not as we would like to imagine them. For it is the predators that balance the ecosystem of the Earth, and it will be us, the Master Predator, that decides their fate.

This show goes anywhere in NJ, NYC, Southern NY state, Delaware Valley PA,

Reptiles are deep in our minds and our society to a
surprising degree. For tales and stories there is, St. George slaying the dragon and becoming a universal hero; Medusa and her hair of snakes; Dracula, which means “Order of the Dragon;” For words and phrases in our language there is the word “sneak” which is the etomologically the same as the word “snake;” “crocodile tears,” which can’t be a good thing. Significances abound; in the ancient cultures and in the Bible there was the snake as evil incarnate; in the Amer-Indian mythos snakes held the key to resurrection; In China only the Emperor could use the five fingered dragon, In our modern time we have Godzilla, the nuclear guilt reptile; it isn’t hard to see that these scaly beasts hold a strange and special place
in out thinking and our culture.

Bill Boesenberg, Herpetologist,

will be your instructor, using live reptiles including some our largest, 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 and the Middle East, Greece and Rome, Polynesia, Medieval Europe, Japan and China, and the Modern West are touched upon.

PRICES FOR REPTILES IN  MYTHOLOGY CULTURE AND HISTORY-ADULT

NORTH NJ (201,973,908,)                                             $500
CENTRAL NJ & SI (732, 609, 856, 718 Excluding So NJ)  $550
SOUTH NY (845, 914, 516, 631)                                     $550
NYC (212, 718, 917, 646, 347)                                       $750
No. PA (Delaware Valley),                                            $550
CT (203)                                                                         $550
PHILLY & SOUTH NJ (Atlantic, Cape May, Gloucester, Salem, Cumberland)   $600