The video posted by Kennedy on Tuesday shows him wearing a shirt, trousers, socks and no shoes as he approaches the slithering snakes and crouches to grab them. <\/p>\n
A woman can be heard saying: “Bobby, please.” His host, Dr Oz, leads the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, which is part of the health department led by Kennedy.<\/p>\n
Kennedy holds up the snakes for the camera, smiling even as they appear to bite him. <\/p>\n
The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission recently warned people to stay away from snakes as they become more active in the spring.<\/p>\n
“Give snakes a wide berth and admire them from a distance,” the agency said in a Facebook post.<\/p>\n
“Resist the urge to pick it up – even our nonvenomous snakes can give a solid bite,” it added.<\/p>\n
It is the latest episode of RFK Jr’s hands-on encounters with the animal kingdom. <\/p>\n
In April he was asked on Capitol Hill about reports that he cut off a road-killed raccoon’s penis. <\/p>\n
Congresswoman Adelita Grijalva, an Arizona Democrat, asked Kennedy during the hearing: “I was reading an article this morning that talked about your affinity to perform your own medical research. <\/p>\n
“You apparently once cut the penis off a road-killed raccoon to study them later.” <\/p>\n
Kennedy also faced scrutiny two years ago from environmentalists over a claim that he once decapitated a dead beached whale with a chainsaw to take it home on the roof of his vehicle.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The video posted by Kennedy on Tuesday shows him wearing a shirt, trousers, socks and no shoes as…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":605393,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[90,56,54,55,4407],"class_list":["post-605392","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-science","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/605392","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=605392"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/605392\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/605393"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=605392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=605392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=605392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}