A few highlights from my latest visit to the Cape Fear Serpentarium (no close encounters with loose puff adders this time, but a black monitor was strolling through the crowd, dead rat clamped firmly in mouth, when I arrived):

Close up with a Nile crocodile. Open up and say, “AAAAH!”

Requisite Gaboon viper shot, because this is my absolute favorite snake:

Matamata (South American aquatic turtle):

Green iguana:

Bushmaster:

Saltwater croc:

Alligator snapping turtle (weird angle, but I love the detail):

Green mamba:

Black mamba:

All photos copyright 2015 by Monique Bos. Unless you are an official representative of the Cape Fear Serpentarium, you may not use them without permission.