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Mark O'Shea (born May 1956) is an English herpetologist, photographer, author, lecturer, and television personality. He is known internationally as the presenter of the Animal Planet/Discovery Channel series ''O'Shea's Big Adventure''. ==Career== Originally from Wolverhampton, Mark O'Shea moved to Shropshire in 2001. Since 1980, O'Shea has conducted herpetological fieldwork in over 30 countries on six continents but he has special interest in the Australo-Papuan region. He has worked in Papua New Guinea since 1986 when he first visited the country as a member of the scientific directing staff of Operation Raleigh. He continued fieldwork in the country as a member of the Oxford University Nuffield Department of Clinical Medicine snakebite research team throughout the 1990s, and now researches there under the auspices of a fellowship from the Australian Venom Research Unit (AVRU), based in the Department of Pharmacology at the University of Melbourne. In 2006 O'Shea designed a set of six postage stamps called "The Dangerous Snakes of Papua New Guinea", for Post PNG. The launch of these stamps coincided with the snakebite workshops and fieldwork O'Shea and his colleagues from AVRU were conducting in that country. O'Shea is also involved in the Victor Valley College Tropical Research Initiative, initiated and led by Hinrich Kaiser. A primary aim of the project is to conduct the first herpetological survey of Timor-Leste and to provide education and research opportunities for local researchers in their native environment. An additional goal of this work is to educate the citizens of this country, Asia's newest, in issues related to conservation and sustainability. He held the position of Curator of Reptiles at the West Midland Safari Park from 1987 until 2002 when he became Consultant Curator of Reptiles. In 1993, O'Shea was bitten by a canebrake rattlesnake (''Crotalus horridus atricaudatus'') and almost died. He has been on the receiving end of several other snakebites, spider bites and scorpion stings. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Mark O'Shea (herpetologist)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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