Greene, H. 1990 October 23 Nairobi National Park, Nairobi, Kenya Robert C. Drewes, James O'Bier, Jens Vindum (all three from the California Academy of Sciences), and I arrived in Nairobi at 0630h, having left San Francisco on the afternoon of the 21st. We had an 8 hr. layover yesterday in London, and made a hasty visit to the British Museum (Natural History) to check snakes from Uganda. We are on an exploratory expedition sponsored by U.S. Aid for International Development, handled through CARE Uganda, to collect amphibians and reptiles in the Bwindi (impenetrable) forest preserve of southwestern Uganda. After checking into the Hotel Boulderland we visited the Nairobi Snake Park - a rather run down place with exhibits of several species of African snakes and ironically (because they're usually hard to keep alive in captivity) a Crotalus adamanus; also an African slender-snouted crocodile (Crocodylus cataphractus) which I photographed. Walking into the Snake Park, down a narrow stone walk bordered by a rail and a rock wall, we squeezed past a class of 20-30 Kenyan school kids (~6-8 years old?), who suddenly began enthusiastically squeezing our hands and greeting us with smiles and laughter. Their response passed w/ us down the line, reminding me of