Snake Park
Reptile sanctuary of pit vipers, spitting cobras and a resident alligator beside a botanical garden.
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About this audio guide
This guide to the Snake Park in Nairobi introduces the man behind its 1961 opening, who had made a landmark discovery at Olduvai Gorge just ten weeks earlier as the son of paleontologists Louis and Mary Leakey. You'll hear why he turned away from anthropology to reptiles instead, and how tanks of cobras, vipers and puff adders came together under Nairobi's War Memorial Committee funding. Stand by the pits and pool to see what has outlasted his short time here.
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