Reptile World Serpentarium

It features more than 75 species of snakes, as well as lizards, crocodiles, alligators, and turtles.

These shows involve George Van Horn and Rosa Van Horn milking venomous snakes such as rattlesnakes, cottonmouths, and cobras for their venom while a crowd watches (separated by a glass window).

A native of Miami, Florida, George Van Horn has maintained a lifelong interest in herpetology.

According to a first-person account published in Orlando Magazine in 2011 at the age of 67, when he was six years old he met Bill Haast who was the owner of the Miami Serpentarium and became his mentor, and the first snake he ever picked up was a rattlesnake which struck at him but hit his fingernail without penetrating the skin.

[1] He then started milking a cottonmouth in his grandmother's basement and began filling a handmade vial of venom from it.