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Show UNIVERSITY . NEWS SNAKES ALIVE Occassionally members of the advanced ad-vanced biology classes at the University look up from work to find a coiled, swaying snake or a lizard at their feet. Biology students are inured to contact with all types of reptiles, however, how-ever, through ion? association with them in laboratories, and most of the students feel inclined inclin-ed to indulge. Dr. A. M. Woodbury Wood-bury in his hobby of collecting scaly pets. The present. Lacertilia Reptilian known affectionately to frequenters fre-quenters of the Eioiogy building as "Limpy the Lizard" is the professor's protege. He is starring in an unusual role, and wins considerable con-siderable attention as the subject of an experiment in which human hormones are injected into the desert "pet" to ascertain whether they will produce secondary sex traits out of season. Twice each year the reptile enthusiast, en-thusiast, Dr. Woodbury, replenishes replenish-es his supply of "cold-blooded" friends from his own spcriai "lair" in the desert wastes of Utah. Hundreds of the crawling vertebrr-tes lie out there basking in the sun. just waiting for the "U" professor, or a snake or an eagle to alter the course of their uneventful lives. Last year he inveigled 400 r.cw pets from this spot by means of a seven-foot wire with a sliding slid-ing noose on the end. Dr. Wood-jhurv Wood-jhurv is not snooty about which reptiles he cotlerts for the biologv d''partm"-nt students to study, but takes all comers, whether thev be liznrds. snnkes. horned toads, or an occasional giia monster. All of them generouslv furnish th dr-partn'.T'nt with startling facts about their private lives, the i professor said. |