Vivárium Klokoty

At that time very popular vivarium of oddball (or genius) - teachers and especially scientists, biologist and world-renowned herpetologist Rafael Maria Boušek. Vivarium was apparently in Boušek native village of Klokoty (now part of Tábor). It was full of exotic snakes - such as mambas, Indian cobras, rattlesnakes, vipers, or at the time utterly unknown Brazilian pitviper cotiara (Bothrops cotiara or Rhinocerophis c., formerly also Trimeserus c. or Lachesis c.), but also lizards, tortoises and amphibians (frogs). Herpetologists not only from Bohemia, but also from abroad was frequently coming together to visit it. Boušek wrote several very scholarly books about snakes and herpetology. He tested on himself snakebite - was the first European to survive bite by mamba (and maybe even the first European who was venomed by mamba). Vivarium probably was abolished sometime in the 40s or 50s - Boušek after the divorce (1942) was addicted to alcohol and drugs, and in 1950 sold out all his possession (including books, paintings etc.)