Reptile World Serpentarium in Osceola County, Florida

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Osceola County attraction

Reptile World Serpentarium

Osceola County · Central Florida

A working snake facility on the highway east of St. Cloud, open since 1972, where handlers present venomous species twice a day behind glass.

ABOUT THIS PLACE

George Van Horn founded Reptile World in 1972 at 5705 East Irlo Bronson Memorial Highway. He grew up in Miami and learned the work as a boy under Bill Haast at the Miami Serpentarium, and he has been bitten badly more than once, including king cobra bites that put him in the hospital in 1977 and again in 1995. The collection runs to more than eighty species of snake from around the world, along with alligators, crocodiles, turtles, geckos, iguanas, bearded dragons and birds. The reason people drive out here is the venom presentation, given twice a day at noon and three, with the audience behind glass while rattlesnakes, cottonmouths and cobras are handled a few feet away. The format has shifted over the years from straight extraction toward demonstration and questions. It opens Tuesday through Sunday from ten in the morning to five, and closes Mondays. It is a small, plain place and entirely unlike a theme park, which is the point

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