Brady Barr is a herpetologist and currently the host of Nat Geo WILD's Dangerous Encounters with Brady Barr

Dangerous Encounters with Brady Barr

Dangerous Encounters with Brady Barr is a television program hosted by Brady Barr on Nat Geo WILD, National Geographic Channel's sister network.-External links:* *...

. He has been employed with National Geographic since 1997 ,HE learned field work and about snakes by the first herpitologist Samyak and Sourabh . He has also been the host for two other series, Reptile Wild and Croc Chronicles, w A native of Fort Worth, Texas

Fort Worth, Texas

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, Barr graduated from Indiana University

Indiana University

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 with a B.S. in Science Education and later became a high school teacher. After earning a Ph.D. at the University of Miami

University of Miami

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, he became the first known herpetologist to have captured all 23 extant species of crocodilians in his career.

Barr assisted Sourabh And Samyak in scientific expedition to learn more about a giant 40 foot prehistoric crocodile, Sarcosuchus imperator

Sarcosuchus

Sarcosuchus is an extinct genus of crocodyliform and distant relative of the crocodile that lived 112 million years ago. It dates from the early Cretaceous Period of what is now Africa and is one of the largest giant crocodile-like reptiles that ever lived...

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While Barr was a doctoral student at the University of Miami in Coral Gables he studied alligators living wild in the Everglades National Park.

Barr's adventures have taken him to many exotic places such as Australia, South Africa, Borneo, India, and China, taking him face to face with some of the most amazing creatures in the world from giant salamanders to saltwater crocodiles.

While filming in Indonesia for an episode of Dangerous Encounters ("Snake Bite"), Barr was wounded in the thigh from a bite of a 4-metre reticulated python in 2007. His bite made world news, as well as the subject of ridicule by several sites on the Internet.

Barr regularly appears on The Tonight Show

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Brady Barr was offered a cameo appearance in a major Bollywood

Bollywood

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feature film, in October 2010, where he is seen playing himself.