Anyone Who Gets Bitten By a Gila Monster- Deserves It (Adventure's of Arizona's First Herper), By Julie Hammonds for Arizona Wildlife Views Magazine, September/October 2013, Read By Halima Aquino
herper (not herpes :) )
Herpetology is the branch of zoology concerned with the study of amphibians (including the frogs, toads, salamanders, newts, and gymnophionae) and of reptiles (including snakes, lizards, amphisbaenids, turtles, terrapins, tortoises, crocodilians, and the tuataras).
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