Show U of U news SNAKES ALIVE occasionally members of the advanced biology classes at the I 1 university look up from their 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 through long association i with them in laboratories and inmost most of the students feel inclined to indulge dr A M woodbury lin in his hobby of collecting scaly pets at present reptilian known affectionately to frequenters of the biology building as limpy the lizard is the professors fes sors he is starring in an unusual role and wins wins considerable sid erable 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 st dr woodbury replenishes his supply of cold blooded friends from his own special lair in the desert wastes of utah hundreds of the crawling vertebrates lie out there basking in the sun just waiting for the U professor or for a snake or an eagle to alter the course of their uneventful lives I 1 last year he inveigled new pets from this spot by means of a 7 foot wire with a sliding noose on the end dr woodbury is not snooty about which reptiles he be collects for the biology department students to study but takes all comers whether they be lizards snakes horned toads or an occasional gila monster all of them generously furnish the department part ment with startling facts about their private lives the professor said |