Some people are passionate about slippery frogs and snakes

Teo (right) showing a Marbled Gecko to a group of herpers near Perdik waterfall, Selangor. - Photos: STEVEN WONG and VINCENT TEO

Frogs and snakes can become a passion called herpetology, a word that many people are probably unaware of, and would sometimes confuse with the disease herpes!

If you see some people with headlights at night, poking about streams, lakes and rivers, or even (gasp!) crawling into wet undergrowth, looking for those amphibians and reptiles, then you may have met the weirdly wonderful folks called herpers.