Citadel Culebra

Introduction to the Art of Reptile Keeping

Five keepers who built the field, teaching what they actually know — how to read an animal, why it bites, and what fifty years of doing it properly looks like.

Orientation

Wednesday 23 September 2026

First course

Wednesday 30 September 2026

Who’s teaching

• Tom CrutchfieldSixty years. Never once envenomated.
• Stacey CrutchfieldTamed a wild-caught crocodile monitor.
• George Van HornFifty-two years extracting venom.
• Ty Park260 species. Largest turtle collection in the US.
• Steve AngeliTop Heloderma breeder in the world.

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