Jeff Corwin went barefoot while looking for anacondas too. Many herp seekers who are looking for non venomous snakes do this, its a fairly common practice.

I don't understand people's phobia about snakes. It even imbues this reporter's questions! Anacondas are not venomous, so if the baby snakes had escaped on the plane, the snakes would have been at much greater risk than any passenger!

Snakes are amazingly beautiful creatures. Truly wondrous. And so few of them pose any real danger to humans in the US. When I was a kid, my dad brought home a harmless gopher snake that had bit him on a golf course. (The only reason she bit him is that my dad tried to capture her!) She easily escaped the box my dad tried to keep her in the garage and a few weeks later, our landlord’s adult son came across her in the garden. So what did he do? He chopped off her head with his shovel. It was an utterly senseless, stupid and cruel act, as the snake would have been an asset in the garden, not to mention on the property in general.

Sadly, his reaction is pretty much par for the course.

THAT IS AWESOME! Nice to know there are people like Jesus out there...

Thanks for making my day. This snake-wrangler is awesome! If we could all have balls big enough to wander Venezuelan swamps barefoot! Nice interview Jeanne, I loved the delicious details about the pregnant snake at the OB-GYN...

This reawakens my desire to have a snake at home. :)

I don't understand people's phobia about snakes. It even imbues this reporter's questions! Anacondas are not venomous, so if the baby snakes had escaped on the plane, the snakes would have been at much greater risk than any passenger!

Well it's partly that whole bible story of the snake being Satan. Then there is just the fact that some snakes are poisioness and the average person cannot tell a viper from a constrictor so they freak out no matter what kind of snake it is. Plus it's cold blooded and swallows it's prey whole, I guess that sort of plays into the whole fear of being buried alive. But I think snakes are supercool!

Oh I miss my snakes now, Jesus is cool.

I'm reluctant to challenge Jesus Rivas' hepetological expertise, but it simply isn't true that anacondas(or pythons)can swallow a normal- sized adult, and certainly not a strapping individual like Samuel Jackson. The large constrictors are unable to stretch their jaws around the shoulders. No one disputes that they can strangle an adult, nor that they may attempt to consume them, as the now-famous Everglades python tried unsuccessfully to wolf down an alligator. The giant 'man-eating serpent' remains an alluring fantasy in a world of fast-disappearing jungles.