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    Andrew Gray Curator of herpetology at Manchester Museum

    Feb 11, 2021 2 minutes
    Andrew Griffiths

    It may seem a strange career journey to have left school aged 15 with a certificate in motor mechanics and eventually end up running a vivarium with an internationally important collection of Costa Rican frogs, but that is the one undertaken by Andrew Gray.

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