Last day/ Babies can kill

So my last day in Gamboa and I went to the greenhouses to do my last round of experiments. I use some butterflies that are in a net enclosure that doesn't really have a proper door, basically there is a net that overlaps and its held by a hook and there is a lot of extra net on the ground so the butterflies won't scape. So I open the cage to get in and I saw a brown round thing, I then look closer and it was a small pretty snake rolled, I look even closer, and realize it was a fer-de-lance (talla-x in Colombia) so yeah!! finally I ran into one of these cool snakes. It was not aggressive at all, but I had to be reaaaally careful because I was in flip-flops and these babies can be even more dangerous than adults because they still don't know how to regulate the venom glands in a bite so you can get a huge amount -by the way these snakes will kill within 4 hours if there is no proper medical attention-. So I went for a big long tool to press it against the ground and put it in a jar, but in the process the snake slipped and escaped...too bad because I guess everyone is going to have to use boots for a few days ;)


woooooot to Mexico tomorrow!