The prospect of spending the next fours years hunting for snakes, frogs, lizards, geckos, blind worms, terrapins and crocodiles might fill many people with horror - but University of Cape Town herpetologist Marius Burger can't wait to get started.
"I consider myself very lucky," he says. "Really, there is beauty in things that most of us are fearful of ... and even people who are fearful still have some space in their hearts for (reptiles like) dwarf chameleons and tortoises."
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