At 62.5cm, this paradise tree snake still had almost double its body length to grow. A victim of grass-cutting, it was found right outside the office and brought in by a colleague. I spent the better part of yesterday afternoon injecting and fixing it in formalin. It will join the ranks of my spirited collection as the first preserved reptile. To some, this might appear shoddy work I know, but I’ll learn…
One of my bosses was none too pleased, since I left a great stink of a rotting snake in his room - it used to be the wet lab, and in a way, it still is - when I first uncovered the lid of the container in which the snake was kept overnight. I made sure to make up for it and my unofficial activity by putting in extra hours of work time!