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  • Hong Kong based Herpetologist, Professional Animal Show Presenter & Wildlife Photographer

    True natural living things are true art pieces
    - they look like a fine piece of art, but the art of their living is even finer.

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  • Time for some Spiders

    Thursday, Oct 31, 2013 6:52PM

    A few of my 8-legged friends. They are getting almost fully booked for Halloween :)

  • My new FB page loaded with animals

    Saturday, Apr 13, 2013 3:30PM

    Just got my new facebook page. Fully loaded with animals! 

    Please LIKE and SHARE!!


  • My Snakes at Triston's Circus crawling over 200 celebrities shoulders

    Monday, Oct 31, 2011 10:30PM



    We were invited to a fine private party at Grand Hyatt ballroom yesterday.

    Our critters have made friends with 200 celebrities and crawling around their shoulders. Blondi the albino python has become their favorite guest! The celebrities were all nice and taking good care of our animals.

    My snakes have crawled over the celebrities shoulders. They're doing good this time, nothing like last time my lizard made a big poop over Isabella Leong's dress :P

    these celebrities were all nice and loving the animals. They're surprisingly very humble and natural.

    News story:
    http://hk.apple.nextmedia.com/template/apple/art_main.php?iss_id=20111031&sec_id=462&subsec_id=463&art_id=15754866



  • From Big Game Tragedy in Ohio to Legal Killings in HK

    Sunday, Oct 23, 2011 10:00AM

    Merely a month after the fire that kills 3,000 high-end top quality snakes in a reptile facility in Colorado, now there is another heart breaking loss in Ohio.



    R.I.P. to the 50 magnificent animals killed. 18 highly endangered Bengal tigers, 17 lions, grizzly bears, gray wolf, mountain lions, chimpanzees, a baboon and more were shot to death by the Sheriff's deputies of Zanesville, Ohio on Wednesday after the owner of an exotic farm threw their cages open and committed suicide.

    The media and Animal rights advocates are mostly aiming at the state regulations of dangerous exotics possession but my first question was why would they have to kill them all instead of trying to bring them down with tranquilizers?

    It is well understood that their job is to ensure public safety and for the deputies tranquilizer darts are not as easy to practice as shooting to death like big game. So I would not say it is a fault, but there were better options. At least they should not have shot the monkeys. Carrying disease does not sound like a good enough reason to me to kill them immediately. Anyways there seems not much the police can do.

    Those animals are infamously built for the ability of taking out a human, although the possibility of them killing someone is in fact very low. The tragedy in Ohio was sad but the holocaust was somehow unblamable.

    But right here in Hong Kong there have been many animals being killed unnecessarily. The wild animals in here considered dangerous are mostly snakes. We do have native venomous snakes in here but in fact they are way less dangerous to people than what they are known for. I have often seen tiny little snakes being smashed to death in order to "ensure public safety" but many times those were non-venomous.

    Another times there were issues of wild boars attacking people then authorities allowed legal hunting. They can attack but after all they are just pigs. They don't kill people.

    Most times the authorities like to tackle problems and avoid responsibilities the easiest way for them but that is definitely the worst way. In a metropolis like Hong Kong, animals would never like to attack humans until they are forced to.

    Killing only generates hate. Killing endangered animals is even the worst sin that no one is able to compensate.
  • Goatee Toni on Nokia commercial (updated)

    Wednesday, Mar 30, 2011 12:25PM

    Goatee Toni handling Rosy the beautiful spider girl shows up in Nokia E7 TV commercial for 4 seconds.


    Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AUMoDK9X4v4


    This is the German version. There are a lot other amazing shots taken that will probably be on other upcoming versions.


    Now its a shot from the English version :)

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  • Official artist 
    posted on Sunday, May 20, 2012 7:22PM  [Report]
    Happy Birthday ! I hope that you are having a Truly Wild day ;) !!
  • posted on Thursday, May 17, 2012 7:38PM  [Report]
    Happy B-Day!
  • posted on Tuesday, May 17, 2011 11:36PM  [Report]
    happy birthday to you!
    Genshui Liu
  • posted on Sunday, Feb 13, 2011 1:29AM  [Report]
    Posted on Adapta Gallery's blog Toni. Check this out and tell us how this is possible!!!!!

    http://www.alivenotdead.com/adaptagallery/Snake-With-Foot-profile-1166801.html?newcomment_1#comments
  • posted on Friday, Dec 31, 2010 4:19AM  [Report]
    Happy New Years from everyone at alivenotdead.com!
  • posted on Monday, May 17, 2010 6:01PM  [Report]
    残疾人艺术团 刘根水恭祝您:生日快乐!幸福每一天!感谢社会各界对我们福利事业的关注、支持与帮助!
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    posted on Monday, May 17, 2010 12:54PM  [Report]
    happy birthday! =D
  • posted on Sunday, Mar 21, 2010 12:35PM  [Report]
    hi this is elena..local freelancer in production..recently we are looking fr animals like birds/ dogs or cats fr one of our scene....wonder if u can help us?anyway tht we can talk abt the details ?my mail:elenatung in gmail.com
    thz
  • posted on Tuesday, Dec 29, 2009 3:12AM  [Report]
    Happy 2010 Toni. I hope to see you back here at AnD soon.
  • Official artist 
    posted on Wednesday, Jul 15, 2009 1:46PM  [Report]
    Hi, I posted some pics of wasps on my page, could you check it out and let me know if you can identify what species they are.. Thanks By the way, Happy belated!! :)
  • posted on Monday, May 18, 2009 11:04PM  [Report]
    恭祝妳生辰快樂~
  • posted on Sunday, May 17, 2009 7:00PM  [Report]
    Happy Birthday
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    posted on Sunday, May 17, 2009 12:46AM  [Report]
    happy upcoming birthday! =D
  • Official artist 
    posted on Wednesday, Apr 22, 2009 5:16PM  [Report]
    really?! wow you made me famous, thanks man! haha
  • posted on Tuesday, Apr 14, 2009 3:03AM  [Report]
    Hi Toni, hope you're not offended that I referred Eric to you... I just thought that you'd be the most suitable person to provide an answer to his spider question, 'cos you really seem to know what you're talking about... I've been reading your blogs here at AnD for awhile now, and your knowledge on nature really impresses me, so I had really meant it as a compliment to your wide knowledge on wildlife... hope it's cool with you :-)
  • Official artist 
    posted on Tuesday, Apr 14, 2009 1:13AM  [Report]
    Thanks Toni.. You are the Man!!
  • Official artist 
    posted on Monday, Apr 13, 2009 6:28PM  [Report]
    Hi Toni,

    I was referred to you as the Go To Guy regarding wildlife. Can you check out my page I blogged about this this that was caught. Do you know what kind of a spider it is. Thanks
  • Official artist 
    posted on Wednesday, Apr 8, 2009 1:36AM  [Report]
    Truly great work you are doing , all support to you !!
  • posted on Monday, Apr 6, 2009 3:14AM  [Report]
    你好!Your dogs are cute! Working with animals must be very interesting :)

    Best wishes from Poland!
  • Official artist 
    posted on Saturday, Apr 4, 2009 9:33PM  [Report]
    hai nice to meet you^^
    your job is really interesting.I love animals^^
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