Mark O'Shea

[Diablo]

Yay or Nay.
What are your views on this guy.

Mine are Muppet point blank.

[SiUK]

he brings snakes to the forefront and for that he must be respected, I obviously dont know him personally or what hes like as a person but his shows are quite entertaining

[Diablo]

Entertaining its supposed to Educational lol

[Magpye]

He could be the anti-christ for all I care, its the directors and editors jobs to make sure the material is fit for purpose.

[martyn]

Remember whati showed in the other thread :

RE: Mark O'Shea Answers Questions Reply by martyn on March 31, 2007 Mail this to a friend! Hi Mark hows it going ?

I have'nt seen your shows in a while, but remember the one on the splendid leaf frog that lives in eastern Costa Rica . I remember at some point in the programme you come across a Golfo Dulce arrow frog . According to all the range maps i was looking at, they dont live any where near the area you found one. Do they occur in that part of costa rica then ?

Cheers

RE: Mark O'Shea Answers Questions Reply by Mark_OShea on June 12, 2007 Mail this to a friend! Hi Martyn

Not been around to answer questions for a while.
Whne I made the film in Costa Rica, way back in '99, we travelled widely through the eastern half of the country. Now I don't recall the common names for the frogs we found, esp. now eight years later, but I was in the company of a top neotrpical frog expert Andrew Gray, and he idented most of them - snakes are strong point after all. You have provided a common name but no scientific name and since most of these species have conflicting common names I simply cannot answer your question. However, rest assured, the No.1 rule of OBA was No Setups, so if we found a species, we really did find it, end of story.


This guy is ment to be one of the best herpetologists ? i don't think so

[darkdan99]

LOL

Common names aint worth shit.

If you give him the latin names WHICH ARE THE PROPER NAMES then he can help.

For intance, if i say to you what is a chicken snake, you will not know which snake i am refering to, since chicken snake is a common name given to 5 (that i know of) ratsnakes.

Wheras if i say "elaphe guttata" for instance you will know what i am talking about.

Your question was with regard to "does it really live there" and the answer is simply YES, since we didnt set it up, it must.

[Tops]

I cant believe people are argueing over this bloke
The answer is simple.

If you like him - watch him

If you dont - then dont

Who gives as toss. (and that was a statement not a question)

[Rainwater]

who is he?

[darkdan99]

Good point Tops.

(and i do give a toss, because by slating the most well known herpatologists, you are slating the hobby for which he stands.

If a non-herper come on, and sees that everyone thinks he is a twit then they will think 1 sec he is a twit therefore all snake keepers are twits....I am NOT a twit)

(ok, maybe a little bit..)

[mynameisjon1988]

mark o'shea lives near me

I think he is ok TBO if not a bit weird i can remember one day he randomly came running out of his door then ran past the chippy and into the car park stopped looked at the floor for a while then ran back to his house