Once, an expert on snake venom serums asked Tu Ming-chang, who researches the ecology of venomous snakes, how it was that he dared to catch highly poisonous sea snakes. "Because they're not at all aggressive," shrugged Tu Ming-chang, who is possibly the only person in Taiwan researching the natural history of venomous snake.
曾有位研究毒蛇血清專家問杜銘章怎敢抓劇毒的海蛇，「因為海蛇攻擊性很小」，台灣極少數研究毒蛇生態之一的師大生物系副教授杜銘章說。