| During her university teaching career,
Gloria worked with cobra venom, researching possible medicinal uses. In Costa
Rica, her interest in poisonous snakes has turned to teaching people to differentiate
between Costa Rica's many non-poisonous and 19 types of poisonous snakes, and
to kill neither, ignoring the harmless ones and relocating the poisonous. For
this purpose, she is working on a book of snake photos, on which, she says, "I
am making progress bit by bit as it is an ongoing project along with the continuing
spay/neuter clinics and trying to get better emergency help to domestic animals
in the campo. What seems to happen with me is that each day one project takes
more urgent priority to the others, putting them on the back burner, and then
sometimes something brand new comes up with |
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| Sami, little
more than a handful | |