Jeremy is my longest-tenured employee, having been with the company for almost twelve years. I cannot say enough about his dedication, professionalism, and friendship throughout the years. Anyone who has seen him perform will tell you that his show is both hilariously funny and educational. He has personally performed thousands of reptile shows with the company and has built quite a reputation for himself.
The decision to hire Jeremy was an easy one. He was born and raised in North Florida, where he performed reptile shows, before moving to Illinois and bringing some of his critters and southern accent along with him. He studied biology and photography at Jacksonville Florida College and worked as a volunteer at the Florida Naturalist Center at the Museum of Science and History, where he maintained and cared for the reptiles, amphibians, and birds of prey. As a member of the Jacksonville Herpetological Society, Jeremy spent many hours in the field and Florida swamps, exploring and studying the local flora and fauna. The Florida Panhandle was his backyard growing up, and his childhood was spent in the pinewood forests and cypress swamps, home to gators, coral snakes, and eastern diamondback rattlesnakes.
Jeremy owns an impressive collection of reptiles. Some of his show animals include an alligator, a massive Burmese python, a blue iguana, an Asian water monitor lizard, an alligator snapping turtle, a sulcata tortoise, and many, many more. This year he successfully bred his red-footed tortoises and hatched several future show animals.Jeremy is an avid fisherman and scuba diver. He also enjoys traveling and has recently gone on a mission trip to the Bahamas, where he devoted his time to aiding in the clean-up effort after Hurricane Dorian in February of 2020. He has since traveled to the Costa Rican rainforest and Jamaica. In 2023 he traveled to Southeast Asia and visited Bukit Timah Nature Reserve, Pasir Ris Mangrove Park, and the Sungei Buloh Wetlands Reserve in Singapore. He also enjoys traveling throughout the US, and within the past few years, he has visited Tennessee, Arizona, Texas, Kentucky, and California in search of native reptiles and amphibians.