27-06-2021 - San Antonio, New Mexico - A sign at a rest stop on Interstate 25 warns travelers to beware of rattlesnakes. © Jim West

27-06-2021 - San Antonio, New Mexico - A sign at a rest stop on Interstate 25 warns travelers to beware of rattlesnakes. © Jim West

24-12-2015 - Battambang, Cambodia, Buddhist temple with carved nagas (cobras) at the entrance © David Bacon

15-11-2014 - Salt Lake City, Utah - The Natural History Museum of Utah at the Rio Tinto Center on the University of Utah campus. Jars hold the museum's snake collection. © Jim West

26-06-2008 - A lecturer showing a potential student a snake at an Open Day at Bristol University. © Paul Box

10-05-2007 - A biology lesson at The Park, a local opportunity centre in Bristol. © Paul Box

10-05-2007 - A biology lesson at The Park, a local opportunity centre in Bristol. © Paul Box

10-05-2007 - A biology lesson at The Park, a local opportunity centre in Bristol. © Paul Box

07-11-2006 - Snake statues at the Step Pyramid at Saqqara outside Cairo, Egypt. 2006 © Howard Davies

03-05-1996 - Red Cross centre snake handler extracting venom from the poison glands and fangs of a poisonous snake to make an antidote vaccination or Antivenin. Milking the snake for Antivenom on a snake farm at t... © Howard Davies

10-07-1981 - A snake handler at the Notting Hill Carnival, 1981. © John Sturrock

02-12-1980 - Zoo keeper with a python, London Zoo © NLA

10-09-1972 - NF Racists protest Ugandan Asian immigration, West London as Government prepare to airlift British Asians from Uganda. Enoch For Pm and Enoch is Right placards. Alec Douglas-Home cartoon as an Indian... © Martin Mayer

10-09-1972 - NF Racists protest Ugandan Asian immigration, West London as Government prepare to airlift British Asians from Uganda. Enoch For Pm and Enoch is Right placards. Alec Douglas-Home cartoon as an Indian... © Martin Mayer