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Excerpt from Journal of the Federated Malay States Museums, Vol. 10: December, 1919 to December, 1922
Sea snakes can be conveyed long distances alive if attention is paid to their method Of transport. They are best kept in a jar or basket and, if not overcrowded and placed in a cool spot with enough water to keep them moist, they will lie almost motionless and live for a week or more. In water they are continually 'on the move, jostling and disturbing one another. 'the advantage of Obtaining fresh specimens, and of being able to prepare them one's self is considerable, and adds greatly to their value for study purposes.
Out of their native habitat sea snakes are helpless and usually extremely sluggish and unaggressive. Although I have examined many hundreds of them alive, I have never seen one make any attempt to bite except under great provocation. The fishermen in the Gulf, although well aware Of the dangerous nature Of their bite, have little dread of them, and those that happen to get into their boats with the fish, are picked up by the tail and ¿ung back into the water.
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