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It was not until 1908 that Grace Olive Wiley went back to the University of Kansas and received a PhD in the field of Herpetology.
#8- Grace Olive Wiley was not so organized. She allowed 19 snakes to escape the Brookfield Zoo for this she was fired by the zoo director in 1935.
#9- Grace Olive Wiley died while she was posing for a picture for journalist/photographer Daniel P. Mannix. The camera made a big flash which startled the snake. The snake bit her and she demanded to be taken to the hospital. She died two hours later.
#10- In 2006, the city of Long Beach , California created Grace park which is named after Grace Olive Wiley.
#7- Grace Olive Wiley was a snake trainer who helped put together Hollywood hits such as Jungle Book and The Tarzan Series.
#6- Wiley left Minneapolis but found new work at the Brookfield Zoo in the west suburbs of Chicago in 1933.
#5- Grace Olive Wiley developed the nickname " The Woman Without Fear" because she would put on shows handling Mambas and Copperheads with her bare hands.
#4- In 1914 Grace Olive Wiley was named curator of the Minneapolis Public Library which had an extensive amount of live reptiles and amphibians.
#3- Grace Olive Wiley received the Herpetologist League Fellow in 1929 for her work with Rattlesnakes.
#1- Grace Olive Wiley was the first person to ever breed Rattlesnakes in captivity.
#2- She attended the University of Kansas and received a bachelor's degree in Entomology which is a branch of zoology concerned with the study of insects.
Grace Olive Wiley is from the United States Of America
She died on July 20, 1948 in Long Beach, California
Was born in 1883 in Chanute, Kansas. No one is aware of what day she was actually born.