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Striped Keelback Snake from Northern Thailand - Amphiesma stolatum.

Thailand Snake Photos – Striped Keelback

Here’s another submission from Paul Donatus, in Chiang Mai, Thailand. This is a striped keelback – nice looking snakes that we don’t see here in the south at all. I’ve seen none of them, so I think they are much more common in the northern parts of the country. Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Reptilia [...]

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Malayan Blue Krait photo from Borneo, Malaysia.

Thailand Snake Photos – Malayan Blue Krait / Yellow Banded Krait

Though this photo was actually submitted by a guy in Borneo, Malaysia – thanks Ryzal Manan! – this Banded Krait looks exactly as one in Thailand might look so I wanted to share the image with you. This snake is quite deadly – and should be avoided at all costs. Yellow Banded Kraits and Malayan [...]

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Big Rat Snake in Nonthaburi - 2nd specimen

Snakes are Mating in Thailand at the Moment

Some of them are killed as they do so. Got contacted by a guy in Nonthaburi – they had 2 big rat snakes mating in their garden. They called the security guys for the housing complex who insisted these rat snakes were closely related to the cobras – and called Coconut snakes. What the hell? [...]

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Boiga cyanea - green cat snake on beach in Thailand

Snake ID Reader Submission – Green Cat Snake

Geoff Deady sent this great photo of a snake on the beach in Chumphon to have identified. I called it a Green Cat Snake. At least that’s what I called it. He said it was about a meter long and 2-3 fingers thick with a reddish tail. The coloring of the top – and light [...]

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