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Looking for the Cape Fear Serpentarium living reptile museum in Wilmington, North Carolina? Click here.

 

Learn the secret agenda of the nationwide movement that threatens to take away your right to own exotic pets. View the shocking documentary film "Animal Righteousness: The Terror of Animal Rights"

Now in its second edition!

At last
the ULTIMATE book on the ULTIMATE snake
is available in hardcover!

THE BUSHMASTER

(Genus Lachesis Daudin 1803)

SILENT FATE OF THE AMERICAN TROPICS

Library of Congress Card Number 00192924.  ISBN  0-9705561-0-1.

 

The definitive guide to these great pitvipers by the world authority, Dean Ripa.  The result of 25 years of research. Every aspect of bushmaster life history is described.

With 437 never-before published photos

You can purchase it now from the Bushmaster Book page.

The Cape Fear Serpentarium has the world's largest collection and breeding colony of  bushmasters, exceeding the combined total of all zoos and institutions on earth.

Blackhead with eggs

In 1993 we were the first in the world to reproduce the Central American bushmaster (Lachesis stenophrys) and the blackhead bushmaster (Lachesis melanocephala).  To date we are still the only people to have reproduced the blackhead species—quite possibly the rarest venomous snake on earth.

We are conservationists.  We believe in the right of people to interact with nature, and in the importance of propagating rare or endangered (and sometimes dangerous) species in a world where natural habitats are continuing to be destroyed at an alarming and increasing rate.

Degenerated Science

Check out the controversial "Degenerated Science" book which has so many government agencies squirming in their seats!  Click here to view

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