Little snake charmer

IRIS SMOOT Acorn Newspapers

REPILE RAPTURE- Connor Casazza, 3, of Oak Park, is completely enthralled by the scales on a boa constrictor from Reptile Family, a local animal education and entertainmencompany, which showed its animals at Malibu Creek State Park on Sunday. Community members could see both exotic and local species, learn how to avoid being bitten or stung, and differentiate between poisonous and nonpoisonous species.