On this episode: What is it like to search for 14-foot-long Burmese pythons in the Everglades? What is it like to wrestle with sea turtles in the water? And what exactly is a “snake bro”? I talk with herpetologists Dr. Hayley Crowell and Dr. Leonard Jones about common snake misconceptions, hypermasculinity in snake-expert world, and Hayley’s advice to women who want to work in the male-dominated field of herpetology..
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About Dr. Hayley Crowell
Dr. Hayley Crowell is an evolutionary ecophysiologist interested in the secret world of animal coloration. The majority of her work focuses on large-scale patterns and physiological consequences of “hidden colors” (i.e., UV and NIR) in snakes and lizards (see her article about this in Nature). She is currently a lecturer and researcher at the University of Michigan’s Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Department.
