Have you ever touched a cobra? Have you played with a python? Austin Stevens, the 'Snakeman' , has done all this and more. He travels the world, from the rainforests in Costa Rica to Australian deserts, to find snakes and film them. Have you seen his fascinating programme yet? Austin Stevens:Snakemaster is on Animal Planet at 8 p.m. every Saturday.
The programme is about the most dangerous snakes in the world. Austin walks through the jungle in Ecuador and goes into caves in Indonesia to teach us about the life of snakes.
He has been to all seven continents and has won many photographic awards. He started only five years ago and has already published more than 150 articles about animals. He has also written a book about snakes called Snakes in My Bed.
Austin Stevens says he's not afraid of snakes because he knows a lot about them. But he has had some serious accidents. When he was bitten by an adder, he spent six days in a coma.
In 1986, Austin spent 107 days and nights in a glass cage with 36 of Africa's deadliest snakes. He did this to raise money for the protection of the African gorilla.
There is only one snake he has never seen. It's harmless snake called the elephant trunk snake. It lives in water and looks like a piece of wood.