Harry W. Greene is professor of herpetology and director of graduate studies at Cornell University, Ithaca, New York. He qualified as a biologist at the University of Texas and the University of Tennessee. He has studied reptiles around the world from Europe, Africa and Asia to Arizona’s Sonora desert. His research focuses on behaviour and ecology, mimicry, conservation and evolutionary biology. His books include Snakes: The evolution of mystery in nature (University of California Press 1997)
How did you get involved with reptiles?
When I was about 7, I saw a horned lizard crossing a road in east Texas. It…
