Python Hunters is a National Geographic series that centers around Shawn Heflick, Greg Graziani and Michael Cole, three reptile aficionados committed to protecting reptilians around the world. Their job is to locate and extract cold-blooded animals…
Thai culture appreciates and respects wild animals in a way uncommon to other areas of the world.
Python Hunters is a National Geographic series that centers around the adventures of Shawn Heflick, Greg Graziani and Michael Cole; three reptile aficionados committed to protecting reptilians around the world. Their job is to locate and extract cold-blooded animals from areas they’re not supposed to be in – such as a person’s automobile or dining room – and release them back into the wild.
In the episode Cobras in the City, Shawn, Greg and Michael go to a flooded Bangkok, Thailand, where they’re called upon to extract snakes from inundated residences and areas of high ground where reptiles has sought refuge in. It’s a tricky process. Locating snakes in the midst of a national disaster takes dedication and craftiness, not to mention guts.
During a lull in snake sightings, the Python Hunters are called to an urban park on high ground i.e. a place that hasn’t been inundated, where they’re asked to help thin out the local monitor population, as part of the yearly lizard population maintenance. Their job is to catch and bag free-ranging monitor lizards, for re-release in the wild.
The PH’s overall experience in Bangkok is eye-opening. To their great surprise and pleasure, the ophidian-loving trio realize that rather than be afraid of, or hateful toward, wildlife, Thai culture appreciates and respects wild animals in a manner uncommon to other areas of the world.