Subscribe | UPI Odd Newsletter Subscribe RALEIGH, N.C., Aug. 16 (UPI) -- Authorities in North Carolina said they seized 154 reptiles, about 60 of them alive, from a mobile home where a man apparently kept them as pets. Investigators said the reptiles, which were taken to the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences in Raleigh, were discovered in a single-wide mobile home in Henderson County after the owner was treated for a bite from one of them, the Raleigh News & Observer reported Monday. Advertisement Bryan Stuart, curator of herpetology for the museum, said the reptiles include rattlesnakes, cobras, vipers, copperheads, asps, Gila monsters and a Mangshan pit viper, which is usually found only in China's Hunan province. The Henderson County Sheriff's Office said it is illegal to collect wild rattlesnakes in the state but no charges have been filed against the man, whose name was not released. The sheriff's office has asked for the non-venomous reptiles to be returned to the man.
