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Mark O'Shea Q&A - 18 month Backlog!
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by cottonmouth on July 9, 2004
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I just truly love his episodes and wish he would do more and more. Mark, do you have any intentions of doing any in big bend? Jeff Q
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by Mark_OShea on July 11, 2004
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Jeff Q
We have not filmed in the Big Bend. The closest we got was when we filmed in Arizona at the sart of "Monsters of the Madre".
We went out into the desert around Tucson and found three western diamondbacks and a desert tortoise. Then we went down to Sonora and found so many herps down there, 2 Mex. west coast rattlers, speckled racer, northwest Mexican indigo snake, parrot snake, Alamos slider, two Gila monsters and three beaded lizards (or was that 3 Gilas and 2 beaded, would have to check my life-list for the trip), anyway we found so many herps that with only a 30 minute film we could not even fit all the Mexican stuff in, so all the Arizona filming went out of the window.
On the non-filming front I came to Texas to open the Venom Exhibition at Dallas Zoo and had a wonderful time with the Dallas and Fort World zoo boys. If you ask me about it I will tell you, there were a couple of funny moments, but maybe I will just save them for the new column I've been asked to start work on for Reptiles Magazine website.
As for filming at Big Bend, well we are not making any more OBAs, at least in the immediate future. We are looking at a different idea but nothing is confirmed yet.
Mark
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by elapidking81 on July 11, 2004
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I have two questions , First what is the scariest moment you have encountered while herpin and Second do you travle constantly or do you spend more time in one place. Also I love your show.
thanks
shane kissinger
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by Mark_OShea on July 16, 2004
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Shane
My most scariest moments have been to do with people rather than animals, even snakebites are not as threatening as finding yourself in a 4WD, held up at a road-block surrounded by angry locals demanding money with menaces, sure in the knowledge, if you get out of the car you will not be getting back in, or stopping in a village to ask directions at night and having a guy get into the passenger seat and stick a machete in your side, or see your assistant turned into a ‘zombie’ in front of your eyes in another village in broad daylight. All these things happened to me while working on the Oxford Uni. snakebite project in Papua New Guinea between 1990 and 1994. As for scary moments when filming, being swept out to sea of the shark beach at Durban during filming of the pre-OBA film “Black Mamba”, running out of air at 80ft during filming of OBA2 film ”Sea Serpents”, due to a faulty gauge on my tank (which still read 30bar when it had been disconnected from the tank back on the boat). Snakebites, not that scary because you are totally occupied with what to do next, my worst was my canebrake rattler bite in 1993 and I found myself remarkably calm under the circumstances, since it was almost fatal, but that is another story. Another scary moment was probably the road crash in Brazil during the Royal Geographical Society “Maraca Rainforest Project” 1987-88 when I was thrown out of a somersaulting land cruiser which then went over the top of me. I thought I had broken my neck and it took me a long time to force myself to move one finger to break the paralysis and be able to get to my feet again.
The road crash rather over shadowed the rattlesnake bite and the scorpion sting on the same trip.
Mark
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by gaboon_word on October 23, 2004
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hey mark its mark no joke, well i live in santa clarita california and i would like to be a herpatolagist adn where i live theres not a big variety of snakes and the only lizards that are worth catching are blue tailed skinks and aligator lizards, but there are alot of rattlers out here but unfourtunatly im to young to safely handle them im only 14 and i dont trust my self with them but there are red racers gophers rattlers and garter snakes, but my dad promised to drive me some where in california to go herping for a couple days, do you have any good recomendations? if so email me at gaboon_word@yahoo.com thanx
Mark
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by gaboon_word on October 23, 2004
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hey mark its mark no joke, well i live in santa clarita california and i would like to be a herpatolagist adn where i live theres not a big variety of snakes and the only lizards that are worth catching are blue tailed skinks and aligator lizards, but there are alot of rattlers out here but unfourtunatly im to young to safely handle them im only 14 and i dont trust my self with them but there are red racers gophers rattlers and garter snakes, but my dad promised to drive me some where in california to go herping for a couple days, do you have any good recomendations? if so email me at gaboon_word@yahoo.com thanx
Mark
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by jared_cormier on November 14, 2004
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I was wondering if you had any knowledge about the wild behavior of Agkistrodons (A. contortrix contortrix) as I have read many publications on the species with some random documentation, but haven't found any behavioral studies like I see with salamanders and such.
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by Mark_OShea on November 14, 2004
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Dear Jared
I have not worked on American Agkistrodon and have only caught or seen the odd specimen here and there. I don't live in USA.
There has been quite a lot of work done on the genus, most notably the excellent monograph:
Snakes of the Agkistrodon Complex by Gloyd and Conant, published by SSAR
Autecology of the Copperhead by Fitch (1960) pub. by Univ. Kansas
Hope you find this useful
Mark
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by Snake17 on November 23, 2004
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Mark, where is your 4th series gonna be filmed or where has it been filmed ? When can we expect an african series? I allready got my answer on the european series and i gotta say I`m disapointed. i mean you`ve searched for little critters befor in other places(patagonian lance-head, luminice lizard, green blooded skink). Why couldn`t you search for Vipera ursinii moldavica or some other very rare reptile ? Or the turkish sand boa. i`m not asking you this, I know it`s not your call, I`m asking the film company. Oh... this has nothing to do with the prvious questions: how many times did you get bitten by venomous snakes and by what species? I know you got bit by a canebrake, a cascabel, a stileto-snake, and a tree viper(Trimeresurus insularis ???). Thanks Mark and keep up the good work. You know as well as I do that your show is the best herp show out there ? Alex S.,Romania.
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Anonymous post on November 24, 2004
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Dear Alex
The 4th Series was filmed in 2003 and three of the four films were in Africa: "Canyon Crocodile" was filmed in Mauritania and Senegal; "Spitting Cobra" was filmed in Natal, S.Africa; "Water Cobra" was filmed on Lake Tanganyika in Zambia and Tanzania, while "Amazon Snake Mystery" was filmed in Peru.
They were shown on Animal Planet USA but Animal Planet Europe did not buy them so they will probably not be shown on this side of the 'Pond'. I would have liked to have made a European series but I could not generate enough interest. One day maybe!
Yes I had a few snakebites, they are occupation hazards to be avoided but they can and do happen.
I am waiting to hear if a new series (a new idea, not OBA) is going to kick off but cannot say anymore at the moment.
Thanks for your kind remarks.
Mark
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