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Good advice here. Be totally clear to your agent what you intend to do -- if you are just showing animals and there will not be public contact, insurance will be different than if you are allowing it. Most importantly, limit the chances of bites.
In 40 years of doing programs, I have had five incidents -- two were assistants who did not follow directions. Two were a kingsnake who nipped when participants had been holding other snakes and did not sanitize in between, as our signage suggests. Depsite that, she has been removed from any public handling and is now used just as a lecture and exhibit snake. The fifth was when a preschooler jumped on a picnic table to hug the leopard gecko I was showing and pretty much squeezed the poor thing to death and got bit.
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