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But Grace Wiley had never been afraid, she handled her reptiles patiently and lovingly, filled one room of her Cypress, Calif, home with over a hundred of them: King and Queen, the cobras;...
Grace Olive Wiley with reptiles / Hennepin County Library, used with permission. For the first 30 years of her life, Grace Olive Wiley was deathly afraid of snakes —a strange trait for...
Wiley quickly found new work as a curator of reptiles at the Brookfield Zoo, which opened in the western suburbs of Chicago in 1934, and she brought the library's collection of 236 reptiles and amphibians with her.
23 gru 2022 · Grace Olive Wiley was already a nationally known herpetologist—a world-class snake expert who had twice been fired from jobs as curator of snakes and other reptiles perhaps because of her cavalier attitude toward snakes in general and poisonous snakes in particular.
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After her departure from Brookfield zoo, Grace travelled the eastern states of America, showcasing her live reptiles and her motion pictures (Dickinson, 1948). In addition to her lecture tour, Grace rented the use of her king cobras to the film industry.
I have just recently read for the first time about Grace Wiley in J. Allen Boone's book KINSHIP WITH ALL LIFE. He describes in great detail exactly how she "gentles" a diamondback rattlesnake at her LongBeach zoo.
