01 February 2010
Rhabdophis subminiatus (Red-Necked Keelback Snake) Thai: (ngoo lay sab ko dang) Length: Up to 130 cm (1.3 meters). Usually smaller than 1 meter. Range: Thailand and southeast Asia. Notes: These snakes are commonly found near water, lakes, ponds, and in gardens. Recently a friend had one in his swimming pool in Krabi town, southern Thailand. [...]
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01 February 2010
Calloselasma rhodostoma (Malayan Pit Viper, Malaysian Pit Viper) Thais say: Ngoo gap pa Length: Less than 1 meter. Female Malayan Pit Vipers are the larger and fatter snakes. Males of the species don’t make it to 1 meter long. Range: Thailand, Laos, Cambodia, Java, Sumatra, Malaysia, Vietnam, Burma, and China. Notes: These vipers are distant [...]
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05 February 2010
Cryptelytrops venustus previously Trimeresurus venustus – (Brown-spotted Green Pit Viper, Beautiful Pit Viper) Thais say: Length: average 40-70 cm Range: Chumpon to Krabi Province in Thailand Notes: I found this one in the picture on a small hill at a Buddhist temple on a hill next to some steps. These venomous snakes are usually on [...]
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05 February 2010
Othriophis taeniurus ridleyi (Ridley’s Racer) Length: up to 2.5 meters. I have caught 4 of these, all of them under 2.25 meters. Range: Chumpon, Thailand, south to border of Thailand-Malaysia Notes: A monk walked me through some pitch black caves and showed me this amazingly colored Ridley’s Racer in southern Thailand. This non-venomous snake, [...]
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08 February 2010
Ophiophagus hannah (Thailand King Cobra) Thais say: WING! (run!) lol. Thai language sounds like Ngoo how chang, or ngoo chong ahng. There are many names for this snake. Length: Max length about 5.8 meters. The presenter at the Saovabha Snake Farm in Bangkok said the largest king was caught in Nakhon si Thammarat in Thailand’s [...]
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25 January 2012
I was at the Queen Saovabha Snake Farm in Bangkok (the Red Cross Snake Farm) on Sunday and was talking to the snake guy that does the presentation in English on various Thailand snakes. He mentioned that a new snake species was described from Phuket called the Trimeresurus phuketensis. Wow, how cool was that? He [...]
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19 December 2011
I have a banded krait video (click) up at Youtube and I had a guy respond with a comment that I didn’t know whether to take seriously or not. Apparently it is true, he was bitten by a banded krait in 1995 while enjoying a night out in a Bangkok bar on Soi Cowboy. Some [...]
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18 December 2011
I get a lot of comments at my Youtube videos – people asking whether snakes are all over Thailand. They’re worried that they are going to be seeing snakes at every turn. Nothing could be further from the truth. In most cases, anyway. There are some people that write me on this site for Snake [...]
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15 December 2011
Every few days when I either have some free time, or just reach a point in my snake herping addiction where I MUST GO, I romp around the forest in southern Thailand and try to find cool stuff. This was a perfect Thailand night. The air was cool and there was even a breeze. The [...]
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07 December 2011
Funny seeing this today upon entering one of the cages. Can you identify what it is around the lamp shade? Join the forum discussion on this post
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05 December 2011
The snake ID link on the right side column of this site is for anyone that wants to find out what snake they saw in Thailand during their stay. Sometimes I can figure out what snake it is by the information given, and sometimes (usually) it’s a guess between a few different snakes. I’m not [...]
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04 December 2011
I’ve had this survey up MUCH too long, but I rarely saw it there on the bottom left side of the page so it was pretty much out of mind. Below is a graphic for the results after 126 people voted on which is the most common Thailand Snake: The golden tree snake took first [...]
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02 December 2011
“Calliophis maculiceps” (Speckled coral snake) Length: Average 50 cm though females can get considerably longer at 130 cm (reference – http://www.afpmb.org/content/venomous-animals-c#Calliophismaculiceps).. Range: These small coral snakes are found all over Thailand and some other countries in Asia. I have seen a half dozen of these snakes in southern Thailand, usually found by people in their [...]
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14 November 2011
I sent photos of a snake just like this one to a couple biologists about 5 months back. Nobody could tell me what it was, based on appearance. A couple guys that have found new species in this area have said it is, without a doubt, from the Oligodon genus. They asked that I do [...]
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13 November 2011
I found another of these snakes today. They are quite hard to categorize. I’ll do scale counts tomorrow and see what I get. Previously I got 15-15-15 on the other I caught from the same area. This one I pulled out slowly from a hole he was half-buried in. We were up about 200 meters [...]
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