Hong Kong ‘snake bible’ author on why they rarely bite and are ‘really quite special’
The coming Year of the Snake is a great time to learn more about them, says Adam Francis, an enthusiast for the reptiles and for Hong Kong
Adam Francis started his financial career in New York, then lived and worked in Shanghai and Tokyo for almost a decade, before settling in Hong Kong 10 years ago.
It is a city that, strangely enough, reminds him of his adolescence in suburban Virginia in the southeastern United States.
“Temperature-wise, [Virginia] is not too different from Hong Kong; a little colder in the winters, but we get a lot of wildlife. My youngest memories are of interacting with them where I grew up. I spent a lot of time in the forest looking for animals and learning about plants,” Francis tells the Post.
“I’ve always had this interest innately in zoology, which has never dwindled. No matter how many times I go out, I always get a little rush of excitement every time I encounter wildlife out in the field.”
