COBRA CLAIMS SNAKE EXPERT.(NEWS)

The Cincinnati Post (Cincinnati, OH) | September 20, 2001 | Copyright

Byline: David Perlman San Francisco Chronicle

Joseph B. Slowinski, a noted San Francisco biologist and one of the world's leading experts on venomous snakes, died from a paralyzing snakebite while leading an expedition in the jungles of northern Burma. He was 38.

As associate curator of herpetology at the California Academy of Sciences, he was known as a bold, high-spirited scientist and a brilliant biologist whose studies of the evolutionary history of the cobra family have proved uniquely valuable to science.

His fatal encounter with a krait, a ...

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